The Blog

Writing about infrastructure, systems engineering, and the occasional opinion on how software should be built.

How This Blog Works: A File-Based, MDX-Driven System

A deep dive into how I built a zero-database blog using MDX files, Next.js App Router, and edge caching. No CMS, no headaches.

How I architected a production-grade website for a construction company using only serverless AWS services, keeping costs under $5/month.

The exact steps I follow when provisioning a new Linux server: SSH hardening, firewall rules, fail2ban, and automated security updates.

A practical guide to setting up a self-hosted observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager on bare-metal Linux.

After two years of Docker Compose in production, I switched to Kubernetes. Here's what pushed me over the edge and what I learned.

An experiment in building a fast, accessible portfolio site using only HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. No React, no build step.

Two years of remote infrastructure work taught me more about communication and documentation than any certification ever did.

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