dedwrong · Episode #1 · · 38:00 ·Upcoming

How I got the WorkIQ stack dead wrong for six months

Postgres, containers, and the two years I spent refusing to trust Cloudflare.

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Chapters
  1. 00:00 The setup
  2. 04:15 Why I chose Postgres + Fly
  3. 12:30 The first crack — a two-hour incident
  4. 22:00 Trying Durable Objects for the first time
  5. 31:45 What I'd tell 2024-me
  6. 36:00 Outro

Show notes

A postmortem on my own architectural choices, told from the perspective of eighteen months later. This episode is what I would tell 2024-me if I could go back and hand him the notes.

Every WorkIQ app now runs on Bun · Hono · Astro · Cloudflare. It didn't start that way. This episode walks through the six months I spent building on Postgres in a Docker container in Fly.io, why I fought against the edge, and what finally made me switch.