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If you run more than two servers, the question of how to manage Docker stops being a luxury and starts being a daily chore. I hit that wall myself last year. Ac...
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When GitHub went dark for the third time in 18 months last quarter, our deployment pipelines across seven aggregator sites froze mid-push. That was the day I fi...
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Three years ago, when I was setting up the first generation of our aggregator stack at Warung Digital Teknologi, I made a mistake that quietly cost me about 40 ...
Last December, I ran a hard test on my own backup setup. I picked the smallest of the seven aggregator sites I run, deleted the entire public_html directory on ...
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'...
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Cheap VPS hunting is one of the internet’s oldest rituals. It sits somewhere between coupon clipping and low-level masochism. You compare RAM, storage, snapsh...
Three months ago I paid $340 for a Ubiquiti UDM Pro to handle routing and firewall duties for a small office network I manage. It died after 11 weeks. The fan b...
Someone published a dataset last week showing 7,655 confirmed ransomware claims across one calendar year. Broken down by group, sector, country. I spent an hour...
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...
I Set Up a Remote Dev Environment With an AI Coding Agent on a $12 VPS — And Now I Cannot Go Back to Local Development Three weeks ago, my MacBook's SSD star...
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...
I have been running into the same wall for over a year now: my GPU has 24GB of VRAM, the model I want to load needs 32GB, and buying a new card costs more than ...
Last month I needed to fine-tune a 7B parameter model on a custom dataset. Nothing crazy — about 50,000 training examples, LoRA adapter, roughly 8 hours of co...
At 10:53 AM on March 17, 2026, CISA — the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — added CVE-2025-47813 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilitie...
I have been writing about cloud infrastructure for the better part of four years, and I do not think I have ever written a sentence like this: the satellite int...
On March 12, 2026 at approximately 18:25 UTC, a threat actor operating under the handle ByteToBreach posted what they claimed to be the complete source code of ...
I have been using SSH almost every day for the past twelve years. I manage servers for a living. I have typed ssh user@host more times than I have said “g...
I'm going to say something that will make half the DevOps community angry: most startups should not be using Kubernetes. There. I said it. And before you close...
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