#devops

I got tired of trusting third parties with my email privacy. Here's how I self-hosted SimpleLogin with Docker, Postfix, and Brevo — including the TLS gotcha that cost me two hours.

Woke up to Netlify suspending 5 sites I'd run free for years. Had 15 minutes before my girlfriend noticed her appreciation site was down. Here's how I migrated everything to Dokploy for €3/month.

After using both GitHub Actions and GitLab CI in production, here's my honest comparison of their strengths, weaknesses, and when to use each.

A practical guide to setting up Prometheus and Grafana for production monitoring. No theory, just battle-tested configurations that actually work.

Hard-learned lessons from debugging Kubernetes issues at 3 AM. These tricks will save you hours of frustration.

Your containers are probably insecure. Here's how I learned to harden Docker containers the hard way, and the security mistakes that almost cost us.

Learning Terraform the hard way. Here are the mistakes that cost me sleep, money, and a bit of my sanity.