Guide7 min read
The Ultimate Guide to Discord Bots
Discord bots have revolutionized the way communities interact and engage with each other on the popular communication platform, Discord.
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Opinion3 min read
The Job Search Has Changed. And We're Optimizing for the Wrong Thing
You can have 10+ years in your field, a strong CV, the right certifications, and a track record of actually delivering results and still never get a chance to speak to a human.
Guide4 min read
How to build a workflow you can actually inspect
A walkthrough of building your first automation in Nodesin, and why every step, its inputs and outputs, and the bill remain visible.
Featured1 min read
Detecting phishing before it reaches your employees
Most phishing that gets through is not sophisticated. It is fast. A practical layered setup for a 50-person company.
Featured2 min read
How we cut LLM inference costs by 61% without touching model quality
Prompt caching, request batching and a routing layer did more than any model swap. Here is what we measured, in order.
Featured1 min read
The case study is the best marketing you are not writing
An opinion, backed by what our clients' analytics actually show: one honest case study outperforms a quarter of blog posts.
Featured1 min read
We migrated 40 services to a monorepo. Here is the honest ledger.
Eighteen months in, the costs and benefits side by side. Not a recommendation either way.
Featured1 min read
What 200 founders told us about their first sales hire
Original survey data on the first sales hire at early-stage companies: who they hired, what they got wrong, and what they would do differently.
Guide1 min read
The five email security controls that stop 90% of incidents
Ranked by the incidents we have actually responded to, not by how they are usually marketed.
Technical deep dive1 min read
The support ticket router that took us three tries to get right
Our first two attempts at automatic ticket routing made things worse. The third one shipped because we stopped optimizing for accuracy.
Guide1 min read
How we structure a case study interview so people actually tell us the truth
The order of questions matters more than the questions themselves. Here is the structure we use on every call.
Featured1 min read
The three-hour deploy that taught us to fear big-bang migrations
A database migration that should have taken twenty minutes, what actually went wrong, and the rollback plan that saved us.
Opinion1 min read
The pipeline metric most sales teams track wrong
Conversion rate by stage looks simple. Most teams calculate it in a way that hides exactly the problem it should reveal.
Featured1 min read
What a tabletop incident response exercise actually looks like
A step-by-step walkthrough of the two-hour exercise we run with clients, including the scenario we use and where teams usually get stuck.
Opinion1 min read
What we tell customers before turning on an AI agent
Six sentences we make every customer read and confirm before we enable autonomous replies. Most of the value is in what we exclude.
Featured1 min read
Original research is a marketing channel, not a report
The survey reports that get cited for years are built differently from the ones that get read once and forgotten.
Featured1 min read
Postgres full-text search is enough until it isn't. Here is where the line is.
We put off adding a dedicated search service for two years. A tutorial on getting real search out of Postgres, and the signals that told us to move on.
Featured1 min read
Why we killed our own lead scoring model
We built a lead scoring model, sold it as a core feature, and shut it off eight months later. Here is what replaced it.