Plenty of teams already test their backups with a one-line script. It loads last night’s dump into a spare database with psql , and if the exit status is 0, the backup counts as good. The trouble is…
Most backups are never restored until the day someone needs them. That’s a bad day to find out the dump stopped halfway through. AltSql Restore is a new AltSql module that tests the backup every night…
These are the recipes we’d hand to someone setting up AltSql Restore on a backup host for the first time. Each one was run as written on 31 October 2026 with the released altsql-restore 0.5.0, on a…
Most case studies show a tool doing its job. This one shows AltSql Restore 0.5.0 passing a backup it should have failed, because that’s what the recorded run says, and because the way the backup was…
BareProxy 0.16.0 adds a drift watcher. You give it a list of domains, a few or a few hundred, and it tells you when something about them changes or is about to break. Certificates are the classic…
BareProxy 0.16.0 is out with a webhook inbox. It takes webhooks from Stripe, GitHub, Shopify and anything else that sends them, writes each one to disk, and then hands it to your app. If the app is…
Moving a domain to a new DNS host is one of those jobs that looks done when the website loads. The nameservers changed, the A record is right, the page comes up. A week later someone notices that half…
Six short recipes for the two features that arrived in BareProxy 0.16.0, the webhook inbox and the drift watcher . Each one was run on the released Linux binary and the output below is copied from…
The worst moment for a webhook relay to die is after it has sent an event to the app and before the app has answered. The app may have charged the card or shipped the order. The relay can’t know. If…
Beit Rishonim gives Herzliya a different starting point from the hotels and office towers familiar to visitors. At 8 HaNadiv Street, the city history museum occupies the preserved home of the Chizik…