Blog Posts

Tried booking a flight. Got blocked. VPN didn't help. IP was clean. Turns out Akamai thinks my 21 security extensions make me look like a hacker. They're not wrong.

After benchmarking VictoriaLogs and Loki on 500GB of logs over 7 days, we discovered VictoriaLogs delivers 94% lower query latencies, 40% smaller storage footprint, and uses less than 50% of the CPU and RAM. Here's the complete performance breakdown.

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.

Deployed a TLS fingerprinting rule that seemed reasonable. Blocked every Chrome 119 user on Windows. The incident report was not fun to write.

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.

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