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Hosting, containers, staging, backups, monitoring, and CI/CD for small teams that have to run what they ship.
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Cloud & DevOps
Scaling Event-Driven Systems with Kafka and Serverless Workers
How to overcome the partition concurrency ceiling, stop consumer rebalance storms, implement non-blocking dead-letter queues, and control cloud costs when pairing Kafka with serverless compute.
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The Modular Monolith & Embedded Edge Databases: Escaping Microservices Overhead
Why high-scale engineering teams are ditching distributed microservices sprawl in favor of modular monoliths, LibSQL/SQLite edge replication, and DuckDB analytical engines.
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Database Backups You Can Actually Restore
A backup is a file until you have restored it into staging on a clock. How to design dumps, volume snapshots, and restore drills for a business app.
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What CI/CD Actually Means for a Small Engineering Team
Continuous delivery for a five-person product: tests that gate deploys, artefacts you can roll back, and a pipeline that is not SSH-and-hope.
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Staging Environments That Match Production
Staging that uses the same compose graph, anonymised data, and restore drills — so “it worked in staging” stops being a punchline.
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How to Monitor a Business Application Without Alert Fatigue
Metrics, logs, and pages that mean “act” — lag, error rates, and disk — instead of a dashboard nobody opens and a channel nobody reads.
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Understanding 99.9% vs 99.99% Uptime
What 99.9% and 99.99% uptime allow in downtime per month and year, how SLAs count outages, and why extra nines cost operations, not slogans.
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Docker for Business Applications: Why Containerisation Matters
What Docker actually changes for a business app: repeatable deploys, staging that matches production, and an operations story a second engineer can run — without treating Kubernetes as mandatory.
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A Practical Guide to Choosing Between a VPS and Cloud Hosting
When a Linux VPS is enough, when managed cloud earns its complexity, and how uptime targets, backups, and operations — not marketing labels — should decide.