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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Software engineer. Building usefathom.com since 2019. Sharing all the technical details from behind the scenes.
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    Jack Ellis
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    Jul 13
    I’ve spent nearly seven years documenting how we built Fathom: outages, DDoS attacks, migrations, $100k AWS savings, my cofounder’s retirement, and a divorce. I write transparently because I want other people to learn from my mistakes. These 18 posts tell the story:
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    @theNOBSdentist The new NOBs mouthwash containers are WILD. It’s a good move to reduce waste but the quality of the bottles is mental. These are water bottle quality bottles. You and your team should be really proud, this was a huge level up from before!
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    Jack Ellis
    @JackEllis
    Jul 29
    I published my migration blog post before the migration was finished. The majority of customers were ported across using the API approach, and it worked great for the cutover, but I'm now exporting the entire Mongo database to S3 and copying it into ClickHouse. So much faster.
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    Jack Ellis
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    Jul 28
    I'll be scared about AI replacing programmers when I stop seeing "You're absolutely right" five times an hour.
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    Jack Ellis
    @JackEllis
    Jul 28
    I know that Laravel Cloud is the future for Laravel but I am staggered at how good Laravel Forge is now. It wasn't bad before but it's just so much better now. I haven't used it in years and I enjoy how I feel as I use it.
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