I have been building FiveM servers and scripts since 2023. I run Meteo Studios where we sell a custom built premade server package and 100+ individual scripts for QBCore and QBox. Full disclosure: I sell a premade server so obviously I am biased toward our approach. But everything I claim in this article is testable. Our showcase server is free to join, our changelog is public, and our documentati
It was 2:47 AM when the alerts started. A seemingly straightforward database migration had triggered a cascading failure across three downstream services, and our payment processing pipeline was dropping roughly 12% of transactions. The on-call engineer didn't need to wake anyone, locate a rollback script, or wait for a CI pipeline to churn through another deploy. She opened the LaunchDarkly dashb
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed