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Notes from the terminal.

Field notes on DevOps, infrastructure, and the occasional year in review. Written while the incident was still fresh.

6 posts

Sep 6, 2026Crypto
Swimming into the Shores of Bitcoin: Proof of Work(PoW)
#bitcoin #oss #bitcoinopensourcing
Bitcoin
8 min read
Mar 6, 2026Story
200 Databases, One Pipeline: A Kafka & Debezium War Story
A VP said "Can't you just, like, combine them?" There were 200+ store MySQL databases. I smiled and said sure. Here's what actually happened.
KafkaDebeziumMySQLCDC
9 min read
Dec 31, 2025Story
2025 in Retrospect
The last day of the year. Reflections on habits, discipline, growth, and the messy journey of becoming better. Here's to doing it, not just saying it.
Year ReviewPersonal GrowthReflection2025
4 min read
Oct 10, 2025Cloud
How We Cut Our AWS Bill by 40%: The Full Breakdown
A retail company running servers 24/7 for a business that closes at midnight. The biggest saving wasn't sophisticated — it was just turning things off. Plus NAT Gateways, right-sizing, and VPN cleanup.
AWSCost OptimizationCloudFinOps
5 min read
Sep 15, 2025Tutorial
Terraform Best Practices: Lessons from Someone Who Has Absolutely Never Deleted Production
Three years of Terraform lessons — anchored by a production incident that may or may not have happened, featuring an RDS database that may or may not have been destroyed. Hypothetically.
TerraformIaCBest PracticesCloud
8 min read
Nov 20, 2024Story
From Docker Compose Chaos to Kubernetes Clarity
How a 2023 avalanche of server crashes, a very calm-but-not-calm CEO on Slack, and 40 containers running on pure optimism finally pushed me to learn Kubernetes.
KubernetesDockerDevOpsLearning
5 min read

Notes from the terminal.

Swimming into the Shores of Bitcoin: Proof of Work(PoW)

200 Databases, One Pipeline: A Kafka & Debezium War Story

2025 in Retrospect

How We Cut Our AWS Bill by 40%: The Full Breakdown

Terraform Best Practices: Lessons from Someone Who Has Absolutely Never Deleted Production

From Docker Compose Chaos to Kubernetes Clarity