Why this list is different The "best" email API depends entirely on what you're building. A side project optimizing for the free tier needs different things than a Series B SaaS sending two million transactional emails a month. This post grades eight providers against the criteria that actually move the needle in production, and tells you which one to pick for which use case. Most roundups in th
When you use window functions in SQL, you can't filter their results directly in a WHERE or HAVING clause — that's a well‑known limitation across many databases. GBase 8a, the China‑domestically developed MPP database from GBASE, solves this elegantly with the QUALIFY clause. Let's break down how it works, what it can do, and where you need to be careful. DROP TABLE IF EXISTS emp; CREATE TABLE emp
Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru, where Telegram alerts ship as a built-in feature. This tutorial works on any platform — it's the manual version of what HostingGuru does for you. Useful even if you never become a customer. There's a hierarchy of where production alerts go, ranked by how likely you are to actually see them. Email → 14% open rate within an hour, less
What do you need for UCP? There are two levels of UCP readiness. The first is the minimum viable manifest — the bare requirements to pass validation and appear in the UCP directory. The second is the agent-ready setup — what it actually takes for an AI agent to browse, cart, and check out at your store without friction. Think of this as your UCP checklist — the minimum requirements plus the recomm
Series: AI Isn’t an Engineering Problem Anymore (Part 2) In the last post, I talked about hitting a usage limit while debugging my robot and realizing how repetitive my own AI usage had become. When we use LLMs, whether through APIs or tools, it feels like every request is new. The inefficiency isn’t from using AI too much. You don’t ask once, you iterate. These are the most interesting ones. Some
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I have a confession: I used react-i18next for years and genuinely never questioned it. It worked. It was everywhere. Every project I joined during my internships at DNB had it set up. You install it, you configure it, you wrap your app in a provider, and you ship. Done. But then I started building more things on my own, projects where I got to choose the stack from scratch, and I started noticing