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3d ago · 2 min read · NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive 2) came into EU law in October 2024. Unlike GDPR, which targets data protection, NIS2 targets operational resilience and cybersecurity. It expands coverage to over 160,000 entities across 18 sectors — ...
Join discussion4d ago · 3 min read · GDPR has been enforceable since 2018, yet enforcement actions keep increasing year after year. The problem isn't that developers don't care — it's that most compliance checks happen once, at launch, and then get forgotten. Here are five critical GDPR...
Join discussion6d ago · 4 min read · Every developer who needs to automate screenshots eventually asks: should I run Puppeteer/Playwright myself, or use a screenshot API? I've done this comparison across multiple projects. Here's the honest breakdown. The DIY Headless Chrome Approach Ru...
Join discussionMay 6 · 3 min read · Invoice processing is one of those problems that looks simple until you actually try to build it. Reading data from a PDF invoice should be straightforward — but the moment you encounter 50 different vendor layouts, foreign languages, scanned images,...
Join discussionMay 3 · 7 min read · How we recovered 47% of failed Stripe payments without hiring a CSM If you run a SaaS on Stripe, you already know the monthly choreography: Stripe sends a webhook: invoice.payment_failed. You log it. Stripe retries 4 times over 8 days using its buil...
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