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In our last internal hackathon, Jannik Wempe and Sandro Volpicella built one of the most requested enterprise features - Webhooks. The problem. Imagine you host your headless blog on Hashnode. Your frontend consists of statically generated HTML pages...

One key feature of any blogging platform is the ability to schedule posts for future publication. Hashnode introduced this functionality in June 2022. At that time, the entire feature was based on a CRON job. This CRON job managed all various states ...

We previously explained how we calculate the Hashnode Feed and select content and metadata for each user. We found that the feed now displays improved and personalized content. However, we did find two issues in the implementation: Performance: The ...

We recently deployed a new discussion feed on hashnode, which comes close to matching our requirements. In this article, we'll discuss how we created it. Before we get into it, just a heads-up that features like feed are developed with many hits and...

This article gives you an overview of the architecture of Hashnode. The goal of this article is to give you a broad architecture of our involved services. Overall Architecture This is our overall architecture. A request starts on the user's side. It...

Feeds are an essential part of every social network. The same applies here at Hashnode. Until now, we have used a very basic and generic algorithm to generate feeds mainly based on hot ranking algorithms. Over time, we noticed that users struggle to ...

Hey, everyone! If you've been using AWS, chances are you've come across CDK and building cloud apps with it. As seamless as it is to deploy apps using CDK, it is equally important to monitor changes in infrastructure code and prevent issues. This gui...

Monitoring and managing resources is an important part of making sure your serverless application is working as expected and troubleshooting when issues arise. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a wide range of services to monitor and track the perfo...

GraphQL handles error codes a bit differently compared to REST Apis. While we still get HTTP response codes like 200 OK 400 Bad Request 500 Server Error It often happens that an error happened even if we received a 200 status code. This blog pos...

This is part 3 of our series: How we build EDA at Hashnode on AWS. In part 2 we decided to use Amazon EventBridge as our main service to build the Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Part 3 covers the basic functionality of EventBridge. What is EventBri...

In my first post, I talked a lot about why an Event-Driven-Architecture (EDA) makes sense and what the current state at Hashnode is. This post will shed a light on how to build event-driven systems on AWS. This is not a complete list since there are ...

Did you ever want to know what happens once you publish a post on hashnode? This is your chance. This is the first post of the series: Building an Event-Driven-Architecture at Hashnode This first post gives you an idea of what Event-Driven-Architect...

As a Hashnode user, you will most likely already have received an email from us. I am sure you can imagine that we are sending quite a lot of emails every week – and most of them are personalized and you are the only one receiving exactly that email....

One of the main value propositions of hashnode is data ownership. With that comes opting out of hashnode. In case you want to leave to a competitor 😢 or to your own blog we want to make it as easy as possible for you. That is why we offer the featur...

Did you know that there is an amazing feature where we transform your text blogs into an audio-enabled podcast experience? For example, look at this post: You can simply hit play, and listen to @learnwithmegha 's article talking about our new compan...