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3 Reasons to Build Your Own NAS Instead of Buying Synology
While the allure of ready-made NAS solutions is strong, building your own NAS system offers significant advantages in terms of cost, flexibility, and security.
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One Night a Storage System Died and Changed How I Think About Software
One night a storage system died and I realized the problem was never the disks — it was assuming nothing would fail. On assumptions, trust, and safety.
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GPT-5.5, Claude, Gemini, or DeepSeek? LLMs Based on Workload
I analyze the performance of different LLM models based on their workloads. Comparing GPT-5.5, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek to help you choose the right.
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Is Vibe Coding Dead? The Era of Karpathy's 'Agentic Engineering'
I argue that vibe coding is outdated and has been replaced by Karpathy's 'Agentic Engineering' approach. This new era focuses on AI agents in engineering...
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Log Level Strategy: Is Debug Mode Always Necessary?
What you need to know to strike a balance between performance and debugging capabilities by correctly defining the log level strategy in your applications.
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My VPS Crashed at 3 AM: A Sysadmin's Confession
Despite 20 years of experience, I'm sharing the incident of my VPS crashing in the middle of the night and the lessons I learned. As a system architect, my.
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If I Rewrote Social Media from Scratch
With 20 years of system and network experience, what would I do differently if I designed social media architecture from the ground up? From algorithms to.
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Cloudflare Cache's Blind Spot: The Cost of Bypass Rules
I explain the unexpected effects of Cloudflare cache bypass rules and how I overcame them with Nginx to improve performance. My experiences on my own VPS.
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Integration DMZ Pattern in ERP Infrastructures
An approach for collecting partner and external service integrations in a secure intermediate layer without exposing ERP core systems directly.