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Notes & tutorials

Notes on front-end engineering, DevOps, and the small tools I ship on the side.

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Restore a MongoDB Backup from S3 Before You Need To

Learn how to restore a MongoDB backup from S3 with mongorestore — the exact workflow I run so an untested backup never becomes a very bad day.

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MongoDB Backup Failure Email Alerts with Amazon SES

Catch silent MongoDB backup failures before they cost you data. Wire Amazon SES into your Ubuntu cron script for instant emails when dumps or S3 uploads fail.

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Automated MongoDB Backup to AWS S3 on Ubuntu with Cron

Step-by-step guide to scheduling daily MongoDB backups, uploading them to AWS S3, and managing local retention — production-ready and battle-tested.