My scrapers run on PythonAnywhere. My phone runs Termux. I wanted them to talk to each other. The standard options all had the same problem: they required infrastructure I didn't want to maintain. Firebase — cloud lock-in, SDK overhead, costs money at scale Ngrok — exposes a port on my phone, dies when the tunnel resets A VPS with Redis — another server to maintain, SSH into, keep alive Webhook to
Power BI is a powerful business analytics service developed by Microsoft that empowers users to visualise data and share interactive dashboards across their organisation. While Power BI can handle data from various sources, its true potential is unleashed when connected to robust data sources like SQL databases. SQL databases—such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server—are the industry standard for
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