IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
9 articles
26 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Docker shipped microVM-isolated sandboxes that plug directly into GitHub Agentic Workflows, giving AI coding agents a full private Docker daemon and sudo without touching your runner's secrets or host. Here's the architecture, a working YAML example, and where the rough edges still are.
Read more28 May 2026 · 15 min read
cloudflare-tunnel
Build and operate a mini PC homelab with workload boundaries, tested application recovery, monitoring and a practical incident runbook.
Read more05 May 2026 · 8 min read
agentic engineering
An agent that guesses burns credits and ships bugs. An agent with Chrome DevTools, Docker logs, and semantic code understanding measures and fixes. The difference is not the model -- it is the tools.
Read more22 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
azure
Part 6 of 8 — Building a production-grade CI/CD pipeline for Umbraco 17: GitHub Actions to Azure App Service with zero-downtime slot swaps, Docker Compose for local development, uSync in the pipeline, Azure Blob Storage for media, and environment-specific configuration.
Read more10 Mar 2026 · 24 min read
deployment
Part 8 of 8 — The complete deployment guide: Docker multi-stage builds, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, zero-downtime deploys, go-live checklist, production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and the operational runbook that keeps voice AI running at scale.
Read more03 Mar 2026 · 34 min read
aws
Part 8 of 9 — Deploying MarketingOS three ways: self-hosted Ubuntu with Docker Compose and Nginx, AWS with Fargate/S3/CloudFront, and Azure with App Service/Blob Storage/CDN. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, monitoring, and cost comparison.
Read more02 Mar 2026 · 31 min read
cicd
Part 7 of 9 — Dockerizing MarketingOS with multi-stage builds for both Umbraco and Next.js, Docker Compose for the full stack, GitHub Actions CI/CD with contract tests, automated deployments, and environment promotion.
Read more27 Feb 2026 · 9 min read
devops
Docker and Kubernetes explained like you're having coffee with a friend. No jargon walls — just real analogies about shipping containers, apartments, and why 'works on my machine' is everyone's least favorite sentence.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
angular
Part 10 of 11 — Production CI/CD pipeline for Angular 21 + .NET 10 ecommerce. GitHub Actions workflows for build, test, API codegen check, Docker, Azure Container Apps deployment, and dependency automation.
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