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builders 12 min read

Vercel vs Fly.io vs Render: Deployment Platform Decision Guide for 2024

The right deployment platform depends on your stack, team size, and traffic patterns. This guide cuts through the marketing and maps each platform to the workloads it actually handles well.

deployment Vercel Fly.io
May 20, 2024
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builders 11 min read

Self-Hosting Plausible Analytics: A Complete Setup Guide

Plausible is the right Google Analytics replacement for privacy-conscious builders. Here is a complete walkthrough of the self-hosted setup, including what the docs leave out.

analytics Plausible self-hosting
Apr 18, 2024
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builders 7 min read

Notion vs Linear for Engineering Team Knowledge Management

Linear is a project tracker. Notion is a wiki. The question is whether you actually need both, and what breaks when you try to do both in one tool.

Notion Linear productivity
Mar 22, 2024
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