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monitoringinfrastructuretailscale
The Stats Sync Pattern: Aggregating Metrics Across Distributed Services
Platform metrics live across multiple services on different machines. A bash cron job, Tailscale, and a POST endpoint solved it.
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Technical insights, research notes, and practical knowledge about building AI-powered solutions.
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mcpaidevopstooling
MCP Tools as a DevOps Interface: Managing 8 Production Apps from Claude
I replaced SSH + grep with 17 MCP tools that let an AI agent deploy, debug, query databases, and auto-fix common errors.
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databaseprismadebugging
Connection Pooling Nightmares: How Serverless Killed My Database
Next.js App Router was opening a new database connection per request. Here's how a Prisma singleton proxy fixed it before PostgreSQL ran out of slots.
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productportalclient-experience
Building a Client Portal That Replaced Email Chains
Project updates lived in email threads, files in Google Drive links, invoices in Stripe emails. I built a portal to centralize all of it.
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billingstripesaas
Stripe Billing for an Agency: Recurring + One-Time Services with Webhook Idempotency
Mixing monthly retainers and one-time project fees in Stripe, tracking MRR accurately, and building tax-ready accounting exports.
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ailead-generationclaude
I Built an AI Sales Rep That Writes Its Own Discovery Reports
An embedded Claude chatbot on my homepage qualifies leads and generates structured Project Discovery Reports — all before I've said a word.
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authenticationoautharchitecture
How I Replaced Next-Auth with a 5-Provider OAuth Proxy
Next-Auth's config churn finally pushed me to build a centralized auth service. One service, five providers, zero per-app configuration.
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devopsdeploymentlinux
Zero-Downtime Deploys on a Single VPS with Atomic Symlinks
No Kubernetes. No Docker Swarm. Just Linux primitives, systemd, and a symlink swap that takes less than a second.
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devopsautomationdeployment
Auto-Provisioning a Full Stack from a Single Deploy Command
One command now creates a Linux user, database, auth service, storage bucket, Nginx config, SSL cert, and systemd unit. Here's how I built it.
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infrastructureplatformdevops
Why I Stopped Using Cloudinary, SendGrid, and Auth0
Third-party SaaS sprawl was costing me time, money, and sanity. Here's how I consolidated everything into platform-level services.
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