Three tool-agnostic habits for making LLM-agent cost a CI check instead of a monthly-invoice surprise.
Long-running agents and workers fail silently. Here's the minimal heartbeat pattern that catches a dead loop before you find out the hard way.
Cron jobs, backups, scrapers and AI-agent heartbeats fail silently. The dead-man's-switch pattern alerts you when a job stops running.
The realistic minimum Grafana LGTM stack β Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy on one S3 bucket β for a small team that can't afford Datadog and doesn't need an enterprise build.
Reproducible checks for npm ci, monorepo lockfiles, missing artifacts, and pytest exit code 5.
Real infrastructure numbers from running 17 services on a single VPS with PM2. No Docker, no Kubernetes, no BS.
Create, manage, and secure systemd services. From basic setup to timers, socket activation, and security hardening.
Fast command-line checks for DNS, SSL, response time, and more
Replace $200/month in SaaS subscriptions with a $5 VPS. Full code examples for 7 essential self-hosted services.
Understanding quorum, recovery strategies, and why 3 ETCD nodes are often enough
