Posts tagged #infrastructure
3 posts
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Cloud & FinOps
Deploying to the Cloud: My Infrastructure Journey
From GCS buckets and expensive load balancers to Firebase's serverless architecture. A journey through cost optimization, architecture decisions, and lessons learned deploying a production portfolio site.
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Kubernetes & GitOps
Building a Production K3s Blog: Architecture Deep Dive
From a mini PC to a full production blog platform. Deep dive into the K3s architecture, monitoring stack, GitOps deployment, and lessons learned running a self-hosted blog on a homelab cluster.
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Systems Trade-offs
Two Sites, Two Paths
Firebase for a serverless portfolio versus a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster for a full-featured blog. Why I chose different deployment strategies for different needs, and what I learned from each.