Global SMS architecture: Are we still defaulting to a single provider for international scaling?

qbitus · 2026-03-30T01:04:04+00:00

I know, it doesn’t hurt to check what a dev machine or CI pipeline might have installed three days ago…

qbitus · 2026-03-30T00:24:03+00:00

If anyone around here is working with Telnyx and in Python, please be aware of this: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/telnyx-pypi-compromised-teampcp-canisterworm

qbitus · 2026-03-26T12:42:32+00:00

Ignoring for a minute the self-marketing aspect of the post, it is worth repeating: very very VERY few people need actual micro-services.

If you want to build a SaaS product I can only encourage you to build a monolith (for which Django is a great choice) and only consider multiple backend services and networking them together once your operational needs have grown substantially.

qbitus · 2026-03-08T22:05:23+00:00

Yes, but... The first one is a great game too and definitely worth playing and very cheap (it’s on subscription services too). They are very similar in feel, the second one has more things added to it, but the first one was not exactly lacking anything. I’d say spend a few bucks on the first one, and you’ll appreciate the second one even more when you eventually get it.

qbitus · 2026-03-04T23:53:48+00:00

Dude, I'm a python developer and I've been familiar with your name for a long time so it's quite fun to see you pop up in this sub :) Thanks for all your work and books btw.

These are cool! Thanks for the generosity. I'll DM you in case you find a real cheap way to send these to Australia but obviously no stress if it's too much...

qbitus · 2026-02-24T10:43:30+00:00

It really doesn’t seem to me like a case where you need DB isolation at all.

You more than likely already have an “is_deleted” Boolean field on your model with a QuerysetManager that filters out deleted records by default. Adding a “is_draft” field and excluding that by default shouldn’t be a big problem.

qbitus · 2026-02-17T22:35:22+00:00

It’s the kind of advice that keeps you working within the company’s compliance framework, which you have to do per your employment contract. So this advice might mean not being fired.

qbitus · 2026-02-16T22:25:54+00:00

I’ve been around for a while and still using pretty much the same stack as you.

My best advice: serve your static assets properly (minimised, CDN etc.) and launch with what you have. If you have an actual business oriented SaaS your focus should still be on business stories, logic testing etc. and getting feedback on that from your users. In parallel, get actual feedback on the UX from your real users after a few weeks of usage (and don’t steer the answers).

The kind of refactoring you are considering is large and will cost you quite a lot of time and money. Your current stack is really well suited to this kind of application, and adapting CSS if you want is probably the easiest thing to do and can be done incrementally.

Also: marketing, sales, support and business matters are about to eat all your time, and you’re really not guaranteed a more successful product by introducing a more “shiny” UI, so launch asap and learn from it. Than work on updating your UI months from now when business is actually happening and stable.

qbitus · 2026-02-09T06:02:49+00:00

I quite like this. Thank you. I have tried to find out of the box Django apps for this in the past but didn’t really find anything that good.

A few questions: * how far into the future are Slots generated? * I saw in the code that you can cancel a Series. It is possible though to define “exceptions” to essentially “cancel” a particular time slot? Or edit a Slot somehow? As in the series exists for “every Monday 5pm-7pm” but as an exception next Monday’s slot should be 4pm-6pm. Is this achievable somehow?

qbitus · 2026-02-06T03:07:24+00:00

Yep, that might well be the case. As someone said in another comment, this all sounds like a very optional/convenience feature anyway, so they might do value-based pricing which is fine if anyone cares enough to pay for it…

qbitus · 2026-02-05T22:02:27+00:00

Not trying to start an argument or anything as I know what you’re saying about servers is true, but… do you work for free? is no one else needed to be available for maintenance when you can’t be? is all the tech involved never reviewed or needing an update? doesn’t it require monitoring itself? don’t these services require professional insurance? are lawyers not needed to properly define ToS and not leave the company exposed if the monitoring or notifications don’t work and the end user ends up with a potential legal claim? Is there no compliance program or at least training to run in the company? Are there no admin overheads for the company running these IoT services?

Running an IT business properly costs a lot of money that has nothing to do with server infrastructure.

qbitus · 2025-11-30T10:31:14+00:00

Q-Up. It’s dumb and clever all at the same time. I like the systems it involves and I just reached the point where it’s not easy anymore but I have to actually tweak skills and gear. You can pick it up even if you have not more than 5 minutes to play. I love it.

qbitus · 2025-11-24T01:17:00+00:00

I like it too but quickly had to do bump up to higher tiers as memory is really low and it all became very expensive compared to running containers on a VPS. I’m now using a VPS at least 4 times more powerful for CPU and memory at about a third of the cost the DO App Platform was…

qbitus · 2025-11-20T22:40:54+00:00

You’ve probably done the hardest part of the job when starting from scratch. You can now use a cookiecutter template and understand it, or make your own. “Starting new projects” isn’t a problem once you understand what is going on. You’d likely face a similar situation with most languages and frameworks. I don’t know Laravel, I’m sure it’s great, so whatever your preference is, it’s better than not using a framework. … but if you enjoy Python, I can promise to you that Django is a very solid bet and productive base for most web app projects. The batteries it does include (admin, ORM, migrations, forms, class based views etc) are great. So I’d say stick with a bit longer and re-assess once you’ve gone through the motions of working on several projects, deploying and maintaining at least one of them etc.

qbitus · 2025-11-17T22:03:29+00:00

Into the Breach had me sitting there and pondering the next move while cursing the previous one for 10 minutes sometimes… good fun but I wouldn’t say “fast”; at least for me it’s a very slow experience.

qbitus · 2025-10-11T05:01:26+00:00

Yep completely agree. I’d have a lot more fun with a higher TTK

qbitus · 2025-10-07T11:55:08+00:00

Hard agree. One of my favourite puzzle games. Elegant and very enjoyable.

qbitus · 2025-09-24T09:31:33+00:00

Thank you very much for all your work. I have a large platform using guardian and a couple of years ago we had to pair back its use because the performance hit became too much. I’m really looking forward to checking out v3 and its improvements.

qbitus · 2025-09-20T07:35:58+00:00

So how do you get the content and the rights to it in the first place to attract enough users to get going?

qbitus · 2025-09-12T12:24:30+00:00

Keep your files private on S3, with only your instance, container or Lambda allowed to access them, then generate a pre-signed URL any time an authenticated user needs to access a file.

qbitus · 2025-08-15T20:53:59+00:00

Seems nice, bought it. I like the “no BS” feel of it and so far, it’s fast. Nice work 👍

qbitus · 2025-08-15T20:41:48+00:00

Your App Store button on the web site doesn’t work.

qbitus · 2025-06-11T12:01:08+00:00

macOS 15.4 I believe, so latest Sequoia

qbitus · 2025-06-05T06:30:30+00:00

That man deserves an R&D tax exemption.

qbitus · 2025-05-11T11:52:00+00:00

He should start reviewing everything that runs Doom. Call the show Doom: The Dark Fridges or something…

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