Sharing hands-on experience, architecture designs, and thoughts on DevOps, automation, and infrastructure maintainability.
Why data pipelines in Apache NiFi resemble a physical manufacturing line. Explaining data traceability, Lean, back pressure, and architectural pitfalls.
How production assembly line experience helps build reliable IT systems. Applying Lean, PDCA, and the Theory of Constraints to DevOps and infrastructure.
A practical case study on integrating Google OR-Tools with GLPI to automate driver route planning and solve the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP).
How restoring the real client IP brought back ACLs, rate limiting, logging, and why not every security tool can be fixed the same way.
Practical reasons for switching from classic cron to systemd timers to improve task reliability, security, observability, and infrastructure-as-code integration.
Hands-on experience scaling transactional email delivery in GLPI using AWS Simple Email Service (SES) instead of self-hosted corporate SMTP.
Hands-on experience using Proxmox Backup Client for standalone Linux file-level backups without adding the infrastructure complexity of Borg or Restic.
How to preserve session affinity across multiple service ports using Shared Stick Tables in HAProxy.
Practical experience simplifying Apache NiFi flows by offloading transformation and heavy business logic to FastAPI microservices.
Analyzing why observability systems often become more complex than the apps they monitor, and how Grafana Alloy consolidates logs, metrics, and traces into a single pipeline.
How to consolidate Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, container registry, and secret management into a single lightweight self-hosted platform to simplify infrastructure operations.