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Engineering · April 5, 2026
How We Built Multi-Region Check Consensus on the BEAM
Checks from 3 continents must agree before alerting. Zero external dependencies — just OTP primitives. GenServer-per-monitor, Gun, and pg process groups.
Read onComparison · April 4, 2026
7 Best Free Uptime Monitoring Tools in 2026 (Tested & Compared)
We tested the top free uptime monitoring tools. Compare check intervals, alert channels, false alarm handling, and what each free plan actually gives you.
Read onEngineering · April 1, 2026
Why Most Uptime Alerts Are Noise — And How to Fix It
Your phone buzzes at 3am. DNS timeout. By the time you open your laptop, it's already resolved. Here's why consecutive-check confirmation changes everything.
Read onOpinion · April 1, 2026
Uptime Monitoring for Indie Hackers — What You Actually Need
You don't need Datadog. You need simple, free monitoring that doesn't wake you up for nothing.
Read onEducation · April 1, 2026
What Is a Good Uptime SLA? 99.9% vs 99.99% Explained
What those nines actually mean in real downtime minutes, and how your monitoring interval affects detection.
Read onSEO · April 1, 2026
How Website Downtime Affects Your SEO Rankings
Google crawl errors during downtime can deindex your pages. Here's how monitoring helps prevent SEO damage.
Read onEngineering · April 1, 2026
Why We Chose BEAM for Uptime Monitoring
When your monitoring tool goes down, who monitors the monitor? We chose a runtime that was designed to never go down.
Read onEngineering · April 18, 2026
Generate PDFs Without Launching a Browser
Typst generates production-quality PDFs in milliseconds without Puppeteer or wkhtmltopdf. Here's why we use it for invoice generation in 9invoice.
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