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Gift Balogun

Backend Focused Full Stack Developer | Laravel, Python & Scalable Systems
Rivers State, Nigeria giftbalogun.name.ng Joined October 2024
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1 day Articles 3 min read
Hello everyone! Today, we're going to explore one of the most common questions in Python web development: Django or Flask? Many developers ask which framework is better, but the truth is, there isn't a universal winner. Each framework was created ...
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4 days Articles 4 min read
If you've ever built a search endpoint, you've hit this wall. Your query has filters, sort orders, a nested set of facets, maybe a geo bounding box. It doesn't fit in a URL, and cramming it into query string params is ugly and fragile. So you reach f...
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5 days Articles 5 min read
Originally published on uptimepage.devhttps://uptimepage.dev/blog/email-bombing-uptime-pages. I build an uptime monitoring tool. Part of my job is to attack it before someone else does. This post is about one attack that most people in this space do...
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Jul 4 Articles 4 min read
I place developers with US tech companies for a living. Before that sentence makes you close the tab: this article contains the things I tell developers for free, every week, one conversation at a time. I got tired of saying it one person at a time. ...
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Jul 3 Articles 5 min read
You're in your living room, watching a spinning loading wheel, and wondering why your "high-speed" connection seems so slow. Your phone displays a "5G" icon, but your laptop still uses something called LTE. Truthfully, you don't understand what eithe...
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Jul 3 Articles 8 min read
You did everything right. You set up a new sending domain. You ran warmup for three weeks. Green scores across the board. Then you launched your campaign and half your emails landed in spam. This is the most common cold email story in 2026. And the...
Jul 3 Articles 10 min read
Buying tools is the easy part. Wiring them into a system that produces rankings, traffic, and booked revenue is the hard part, and it's an engineering problem more than a marketing one. This is how I think about the stack, layer by layer: research, i...
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Jul 2 Articles 1 min read
Most dashboards answer one question: Is everything okay? During an incident, nobody's asking that. The real question: What broke, where, and what changed? Most dashboards fail at incidents because they were built for monitoring, not troubleshooti...
Jul 2 Articles 7 min read
Introduction Having purchased our VPS, we're well on our way to setup Coolify. I'm getting excited and I hope you're excited about that, but before we actually get to that installation there is another step we must take. We must secure our VPS. My Li...
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Jul 2 Articles 7 min read
Introduction Having purchased our VPS, we're well on our way to setup Coolify. I'm getting excited and I hope you're excited about that, but before we actually get to that installation there is another step we must take. We must secure our VPS. My Li...
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Jul 1 Articles 5 min read
Introduction Continuing on our developer's journey, we will manage our Directus backend, supported by a PostgreSQL database and a Redis cache. To pull this off, we will need a VPS. As I would have stated in my previous post, we have to manage our V...
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Jul 1 Articles 5 min read
Introduction Continuing on our developer's journey, we will manage our Directus backend, supported by a PostgreSQL database and a Redis cache. To pull this off, we will need a VPS. As I would have stated in my previous post, we have to manage our V...
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Jul 1 Articles 6 min read
Custom Website vs Website Builders (Wix, Squarespace, WordPress): A 2026 Comparison From Someone Who Builds Both ⚖️ Comparison · Updated June 2026 · 12 min read · by Jacob Campbell I'm Jacob Campbell, and I've rebuilt enough Wix, Sq...
Jun 30 Launches 1 min read
Uptime monitoring and status pages in one Rust binary...
Jun 30 Articles 5 min read
You're staring at your internet bill, watching a "1 Gbps" upgrade offer flash across your screen, and wondering if you're about to overpay for speed you'll never use or if you're one buffering video call away from finally justifying the upgrade your ...
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Jun 29 Articles 3 min read
The digital era has introduced technologies that are changing how organizations operate, and the Internet of Things IoT is at the forefront of this transformation. By connecting physical devices, sensors, and software through the internet, IoT enable...
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Jun 29 Articles 3 min read
Fintech APIs handle over $10.24 billion in transactions every day worldwide. However, 67% of fintech apps still lack proper API authentication, increasing the risk of fraud, data breaches, and unauthorized access. To build an enterprise-grade credit...
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Jun 29 Articles 5 min read
How Long Does It Take to Build a Custom Website? A 2026 Timeline From the Workshop ⏱️ Project Timeline · Updated June 2026 · 10 min read · by Jacob Campbell I'm Jacob Campbell, and after delivering custom sites for years I can tell ...
Jun 28 Articles 1 min read
If your WordPress site just got hacked, you're probably wondering — what's this going to cost me? Here's a real breakdown, not a sales pitch: DIY Route — $0 to $100/year Use Wordfence free + manual cleanup via FTP and phpMyAdmin. Works for simple in...
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