Last December I shipped a small change to the way our 7 aggregator sites talk to MySQL, and within an hour two of them started returning 502s. The problem wasn'...
The Short Answer Coolify — best for self-hosted PaaS with a broad ecosystem (the "Vercel on your own VPS" experience) Dokploy — best for resource-cons...
GitHub Apparently Cannot Hit Three Nines of Uptime — So I Built a Git Failover Strategy and Here Is Exactly How You Can Too Last Tuesday, around 2:30 PM East...
A few weeks ago, my friend Kat — who runs a small Etsy shop that somehow grew into a real business — called me in mild panic. "James, I am paying $47 a mont...
Three months ago, around 10:30 PM on a Tuesday, I made a decision that my accountant would later describe as "creatively wasteful." I spun up identical servers ...