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A practical framework for choosing between separate local accounts, a shared identity provider, or a hybrid model across a growing self-hosted application stack.
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Background workers keep long-running and scheduled tasks out of the interactive request path. Use this framework to decide whether your self-hosted application needs workers, what dependencies to verify, and when a single-server design is still the sensible choice.
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Transactional email is a core dependency for self-hosted applications, not a checkbox. Learn how to inventory essential messages, choose a sending model, authenticate your domain, protect SMTP credentials and prepare for delivery failures.
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