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The first hour after your website is hacked

Security · 5 min

The first hour after your website is hacked

A calm, ordered response plan for the moment you discover a compromise, from containment and evidence to cleanup and communication.

Leo Tanaka · Jan 14, 2025

How to audit checkout abandonment step by step

E-commerce · 5 min

How to audit checkout abandonment step by step

Most checkout drop-off comes from a handful of fixable causes. Here is the audit sequence we run before touching a single design file.

Sofia Lindqvist · Jan 14, 2025

Zero-downtime deploys for a monolith: blue-green or rolling

DevOps · 6 min

Zero-downtime deploys for a monolith: blue-green or rolling

You do not need microservices to ship without a maintenance page. How we choose between blue-green and rolling deploys for a single application.

Leo Tanaka · Jan 13, 2025

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