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4 stories in the archive.
18 Apr 2026
Off Cloudflare, onto gray-cloud AWS: why and how we moved
In April 2026 we finished moving ORDR from orange-cloud Cloudflare back to a traditional CDN-less AWS setup. Here is why a restaurant POS cares about the intermittent Spain / LaLiga IP blocks, what we did, and what we gave up.
19 Mar 2024
Monolith for life, except when not: how we split CloudPrint out of the ORDR Rails app
ORDR is a Rails monolith and will stay one. CloudPrint, the printer microservice, had to live somewhere else, but for the boring physical reason that it talks to a thermal printer in a venue, not because the monolith was failing us. The rule we use: split out only when the constraint forces it.
26 Sept 2023
Switching to Bun: how moving off Yarn cut our local dev startup by 60%
After two years on Yarn, we moved ORDR's JavaScript toolchain to Bun in late 2023. Install time dropped by an order of magnitude, local dev server startup more than halved, and the migration itself took an afternoon. Here is what we changed, what we measured, and what we still use Node for.
26 Apr 2023
March and April 2023 features update
Phone-friendly staff ordering, a configurable end-of-day cut-off for reports, and product categories surfaced across downloadable reports. Three quality-of-life features bundled into one update.