If you are a creator or marketer, “trend research” usually means scrolling TikTok for 3 hours and calling it work. But what if you could just run a script and get a list of: The top trending hashtags right now. The most popular music/sounds being used. The breakout creators of the day. In this tutorial,…
Building an “Unstoppable” Serverless Payment System on AWS What happens when your payment gateway goes down? In a traditional app, the user sees a spinner, then a “500 Server Error,” and you lose the sale. I wanted to build a system that refuses to crash. Even if the backend database is on fire, the user’s…
The US government plans to check visitors’ social media posts and potentially bar them from entry under new proposed rules.
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Options for storing structured data: Points to remember: Cloud SQL is Google Cloud’s Managed Relational Database service. Alloy DB is a fully managed, high performance PostgreSQL Database Service. Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully Managed, Relational Database Service that offers strong consistency and horizontal scalability. FireStore is a fast, fully-managed, serverless NoSQL document database built for…
Introduction On December 7-8, 2025, my Next.js portfolio application luisfaria.dev running on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet was compromised by an automated cryptomining attack. The attacker successfully executed remote code on the containerized Next.js application, deploying cryptocurrency miners that ran for several hours before detection. This document serves as a post-mortem analysis and educational resource for…
I have a React application (Vite + Ant Design) deployed on Nginx (Linux). The application works perfectly in my local environment (Windows) and usually runs fine in production. The Issue: The entire application works correctly until I navigate to one specific route (MachinesDashboard). On Windows (Local & Prod build): The page loads perfectly. On Linux…
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