What I learned while building a reliable in-app notification pipeline When I first thought about adding notifications to ModusFocus, the requirement appeared simple: place a bell icon in the header…

An MVP recovery path for a self-hosted MongoDB container on Oracle Cloud—not high availability, point-in-time recovery, or a replacement for a managed database platform. Background ModusFocus (our productivity app) runs…

How ModusFocus handles errors and keeps failures easier to understand. When I first think about exception handling, it is tempting to put try/catch blocks everywhere. In a service-oriented application, that…

The Background When ModusFocus was a smaller application when it started off, a log line could often answer a question such as: “Why did this request fail?” As the application…