News, guides & thoughts
Updates from the team, technical deep dives, and the occasional opinion about building infrastructure.
Independent, restore-tested backups for Amazon RDS and Aurora Postgres
backupRDS automated backups live in the same AWS account as your database. Here is how to send an independent, restore-tested copy of your RDS or Aurora Postgres to storage you control.
Jan Svabik Back up your Supabase database to your own S3 (and prove it restores)
backupSupabase is a great place to run Postgres. It should not be the only place your backups live. Here is how to send independent, restore-tested backups of your Supabase database to a bucket you own.
Jan Svabik A million domains in one request — and a bill for the answer, not the search
domainradarMost domain availability APIs cap at a few hundred domains per call and bill flat per check. DomainRadar resolves up to a million in a single request through a Bloom → DNS → RDAP → WHOIS pipeline, and only charges at the rate of the method that actually answered.
Jan Svabik Localize in your own language, not just English
langsyncMost translation tools assume English is your source. LangSync does not — write keys in Czech, German, Polish, or anything else, and your team-wide default stays whatever it needs to be.
Jan Svabik Why we built Norcube
storyWe are a software company that builds products for clients. We needed backups, translations, monitoring, and domain tools. So we built them.
Jan Svabik How Smartsupp cut translation costs by 50% switching from POEditor to LangSync
case studySmartsupp was hitting plan limits and facing enterprise pricing. They migrated to LangSync in one afternoon and halved their translation costs.
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