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Infrastructure, mail, and the decisions behind both. Written by the people who run the systems.
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Engineering
Owning your own infrastructure, and when not to
The case for running your own server is not that it is cheaper. It is that you can answer questions about it. Here is what that buys, and the four things it costs.
7 min read · self-hosting, operations, decisions
Infrastructure
Moving an app onto single-node Kubernetes, no downtime
A production app moved onto k3s on a box that was already serving traffic. What had to be decided first, which secrets could not be regenerated, and the order of the cutover.
7 min read · kubernetes, k3s, nginx, deployment, self-hosting