Throughout my experience building websites with WordPress, I honestly rarely felt truly comfortable when it came to creating custom themes — mainly because WordPress relies heavily on hooks. At first, it feels flexible, but as the project grows larger, the increasing number of hooks scattered across multiple files makes future development quite exhausting. That was…
Ever wondered how subscriptions in WooCommerce actually work? Honestly, I was already relieved when I could just install the plugin and have it run without errors :). But I had an interesting experience when I had to migrate Midtrans subscription data that previously ran on WooCommerce to a new donation system built with Node.js. Difference…
A while ago, I found the need in the backend to run a cron job that automatically updates invoice and ticket statuses. At first, I used NestJS’s built-in cron job feature. However, it failed to work properly.
Some time ago I was given the opportunity to help work on a backend with Nestjs. Interestingly, this project will be deployed on AWS lambda with DynamoDB as a database. A few months running I discovered the fact that backend server costs can be very cheap.