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Lessons From Running an OpenClaw Agent in Production for 30 Days
30 days of running one AI agent on a $24/mo droplet. Total cost $36.83. Three failures: an OOM, a systemd start-limit-hit, and a f...
Building a Production-Grade CI/CD Pipeline — Part 1: Setting Up From Scratch
This hands-on tutorial walks through building a production-style CI/CD pipeline for a Node.js API using GitHub Actions, Docker, AW...
7 Signs Your Release Process Is More Fragile Than You Think
This article examines common operational weaknesses hidden inside modern CI/CD pipelines and release workflows. It argues that man...
Behind the Scenes of Managing a $100M Tech Portfolio
A $100M portfolio needs live cost attribution, flow metrics, and policy-as-code guardrails annual planning theater without those i...
Big Tech Won't Use Wine or Darling for CI: Here's Why
While tools like Wine and Darling allow you to run Windows and macOS apps on cheap Linux hardware essentially a huge cost saving f...
From Copilots to Autonomous Agents: The Senior Engineer's New Role
In 2026, Senior Engineers focus on expressing intent and governing AI agent workflows rather than manual coding, leading to a 75%...
Why Your “Simple Deploy” Turned Into a Week of Infrastructure Work
Modern deployment workflows silently force application teams to act like platform engineers, managing tightly coupled systems they...
The Solo Developer’s Hyper-Productivity Stack: OpenCode, Graphify, and Cloud Run
Context-switching and manual debugging can easily destroy a solo developer's momentum. By combining OpenCode (powered by Gemini 2....
Git Was for Code. AI-Native Systems Need a Proof Layer.
AI is no longer just assisting software teams, it is participating in the engineering lifecycle itself. That creates a new archite...
How inDrive Detects Silent Android Resource Overrides Before Merge
inDrive added a lightweight GitHub Actions workflow that detects duplicate Android resources in pull requests. It warns engineers...
Stop Calling Everything 'SRE'. Here's What It Actually Means.
Confused about the buzzword 'SRE'? Learn the true definition of Site Reliability Engineering and how it impacts modern businesses....
I Watched Our AI Pipeline Silently Fail While Kubernetes Said Everything Was Fin...
CPU is the wrong signal for LLM workloads. When inference requests queue up, GPU workers saturate and latency spikes — but CPU sta...
