10 posts.
Infura's Compute Unit quotas reset daily — so the failure mode isn't a surprise bill, it's your app going dark at 4pm until midnight. Here's how Infura's metering actually behaves in production, when Infura is still the right call, and what a flat-rate alternative changes.
Read →Should you poll eth_getLogs on a timer or subscribe over WebSocket? Polling is simpler and more robust; WebSocket is lower-latency and lighter at scale — but drops events on reconnect. Here's the honest trade-off, when each wins, and why production systems often use both.
Read →If you're running your own Ethereum node, the execution client you pick decides your disk bill, your sync time, and whether historical queries are cheap or impossible. Here's an honest 2026 comparison of Geth, Erigon, and Reth — and which one fits which job.
Read →Free public RPC endpoints are perfect for learning and prototyping — and a liability in production. Here's the honest breakdown of where public RPC bites you (rate limits, downtime, deprecation, stale blocks, missing methods) and when paying for an endpoint actually earns its keep.
Read →Running your own node looks free next to a provider bill — until you add up the line items nobody quotes you: redundancy, engineer hours, storage growth, and the per-chain multiplier. Here's the honest all-in math, and the volume where self-hosting actually wins.
Read →dRPC and Alchemy take opposite paths to the same metered-compute billing model — one decentralized and pay-as-you-go, one a polished managed platform. Here's how they actually differ, where each wins, and why the deciding question is whether your workload fits compute-unit pricing at all.
Read →They share a name and a parent company, but Polygon PoS and Polygon zkEVM are two separate chains — different chain IDs, different gas tokens, different security models, and very different liquidity. Here's how to tell which RPC endpoint your app actually needs.
Read →API credits look simple — until you realize different methods cost 10× each other, marketplace add-ons stack on top, and overage hits without warning. Here's the math, the gotchas, and how to actually forecast a QuickNode bill.
Read →Eight serious providers offer Base RPC in 2026. Here's the honest comparison — pricing, free tiers, WebSocket support, archive access, and which one to pick for which workload.
Read →Compute Units are documented but practically unforecastable — different RPC methods cost up to 30× each other, and a small code change can quintuple your monthly bill without any change in user count. Here's the math, with real numbers.
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