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Behind the Scenes

Decisions, numbers and lessons from running AlphaCloud.

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Keeping an Eye on 4,000 Discord Servers: Grafana, PostHog and What They Showed Us

A loop that quietly caused half of our traffic, three million pointless requests a day and an attack that was over after one minute. What our monitoring sees, and what it deliberately does not.

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What an Audit of Our Own Payment System Turned Up

Two critical findings, and neither was where we would have looked. An open report on mistakes that have since been fixed.

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The Law Inside Our Code

A cancellation button that must work without a login. A form that must never reject you. Why legal duties are architecture for us, not boilerplate.

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Why Almost Everything in AlphaCloud Stays Free

Most Discord bots lock their most useful features behind a subscription. We deliberately do not, and that has less to do with generosity than it sounds.

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What Running a Bot on 2,000+ Discord Servers Taught Us

Four things that work differently at scale than you assume while writing the code.

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When Our AI Provider Retired the Model

A model swap, empty replies with no error, and a bill that suddenly ran several times higher. What broke, and why the cause was so hard to see.

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