The notebook · 03 entries
Writing
Notes on backends, serverless, scraping, data pipelines, and what running a business teaches you about all of it.
- 01 Field note What running a business taught me about writing software I started ThinkFull Technologies expecting to learn about clients and invoices. It turned out to be the best software-engineering teacher I've had. Notes from a developer who chose business over a job.
- 02 Backend Running 100,000 API calls a day on a budget How I built a fault-tolerant time-series pipeline in Node.js and TypeScript that pulls 100k+ API calls a day, survives rate limits and flaky upstreams, and stores half a million rows in TimescaleDB, without a big cloud bill.
- 03 Serverless A to-do app that runs on nobody's server Building a fully serverless, event-driven reminder app on the AWS free tier, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, and EventBridge + SNS for scheduled emails. No servers to patch, no cron to babysit, no monthly bill.