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Ship the article on the same schedule as the launch.

Write it once in Ocoya and DEV gets a real article — your first line as the headline, your post as the article, your hashtags as tags — published at the hour you picked.

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dev.to/gridlines Wed, 07:00

gridlines

Posted just now · 6 min read

We deleted our cache layer and got faster

The read path was the problem

Every request hit Redis before it hit Postgres, and Postgres was answering in 1.2ms anyway.

#performance#postgres#webdev

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Long-form

A caption in, an article out.

DEV is where developers go to read, not to skim a feed. A post there is a full article, and the composer you already use becomes one: your first line is the headline, the rest is the article, and your image becomes the cover at the top of it.

Headings, code samples and lists arrive intact
Your headline is not repeated at the top of the article
Write your own headline instead and your post is left alone

One draft → one article

Your first lineThe headlineor write your own instead

The rest of the postThe article itselfheadings, code and lists intact

Your hashtagsDEV tagsup to four, tidied for you

Your first imageThe cover imagesits at the top of the article

Hashtags that would be rejected, fixed on the way out.

Tags are how readers find anything on DEV, and DEV is fussy about them — four at most, letters and numbers only. Write hashtags the way you write them everywhere else and Ocoya tidies them up on the way out, rather than letting DEV turn the article down over a dash.

Hashtags → tags4 of 5 kept

#web-devwebdevdash removed

#Postgrespostgreslower-cased

#performanceperformance

#cachingcaching

#databasesdroppedDEV allows four

DEV tags cannot hold a dash, so #web-dev becomes webdev instead of being thrown away. DEV takes four, so the fifth is left off rather than the whole article being turned down.

What DEV accepts

An article, with an article's rules.

These are DEV's own rules, not ours — worth knowing before you plan a series around it.

Publishing surfacePublished articles

HeadlineRequired, 128 characters

Article lengthLonger than you will ever write

TagsUp to 4, alphanumeric

Cover imageFirst image on the post

Sign-inA key you copy from DEV

Connecting takes a key you copy from your own DEV settings, under Extensions — DEV does not offer a sign-in button the way the social networks do. One thing worth planning around: DEV only accepts one article every thirty seconds, so spread a batch of scheduled articles out rather than stacking them on the same minute.

One draft, the article and its announcement.

The long version goes to DEV, the short version to X, LinkedIn and Mastodon — each under its own limit, each at the minute you choose. The write-up and the posts pointing at it stop being two separate jobs.

How publishing works