20 posts in DevOps
A practical guide to managing secrets across development, staging, and production, covering .env pitfalls, environment variable best practices, HashiCorp Vault, cloud secret managers, secret rotation, and detecting leaked credentials.
Tailscale confirmed privilege escalation flaws in Tailscale SSH socket forwarding. Here is the technical breakdown, daemon mitigations, and ACL hardening.
Coolify gives you push-to-deploy, SSL, and databases on your own server. Here is how it stacks up against Vercel and raw Docker.
A WAF configured incorrectly either misses attacks or blocks legitimate traffic. This guide covers how WAFs work, OWASP Core Rule Set tuning, custom rules, rate limiting, and the false positive management process.
Caddy gets you HTTPS with two lines of config. Nginx gives you twenty years of battle testing. Here is how to choose in 2026.
A technical remediation guide for systems engineers responding to HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497), the out-of-bounds write flaw in Google Brotli impacting Node.js, .NET, Python, and HTTP/2 proxies.
A technical breakdown of NVIDIA Flare, the open-source local inference engine. Covers Ignition model preparation, Helios Rust serving, CUDA graphs, and agent workloads.
A technical, practical remediation guide for site administrators responding to PHP core vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Updated October 21 with patched version numbers, interim mitigations, and exploitation indicators.
What happens after you deploy AI? A practical guide to the operational realities of production AI systems, covering token cost monitoring, latency profiling, output quality drift, prompt version management, and incident response.
Multi-region deployments reduce latency for global users and protect against regional cloud outages, but they introduce complexity that can cause more problems than they solve. This guide covers the trade-offs honestly.
DNS is infrastructure every developer uses but few understand well enough to debug.
I share my thorough Docker guide for web development covering installation, best practices, multi-stage builds, security, and production deployment...
Discover self-hosted alternatives to popular SaaS tools. Compare options for Slack, Notion, and Google Workspace with practical deployment guidance and cost analysis.
I compare the top CDN providers for business websites with detailed analysis of Cloudflare, Fastly, and BunnyCDN covering performance, pricing, features, and use cases.
I share my strategies for managing API costs and implementing rate limiting for business applications, including caching techniques, monitoring tools, and lessons from costly mistakes.
I share my experience with AI code review tools for small development teams, comparing GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit, and Qodana for automated code analysis and security scanning.
I share my practical guide to implementing database sharding for growing SaaS applications, covering PostgreSQL strategies for data distribution, query routing, and migration.
Master Git Flow branching strategies for growing development teams. Learn proven workflows, best practices, and conflict resolution techniques for teams scaling from 5 to 50 developers.
A practitioner breakdown of edge computing architectures, comparing Vercel Edge Functions and Cloudflare Workers with routing patterns that prevent quota burn.
Examine micro-frontends to break down large web applications into scalable, independent modules.