Build a Mini PC Home Server: The Complete Guide for Developers
How I replaced cloud VPS with a mini PC homelab running Laravel, Docker, and Cloudflare Tunnel - saving money while learning real DevOps
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The Multi-Agent Coding Grid: How I Use Claude as an Orchestrator with MiniMax and Kimi as Workers
A practical guide to running parallel AI coding agents using Claude as a manager, MiniMax and Kimi as workers, Linear as the task pool, and tmux as the control room. No frameworks — just shell scripts, lock files, and clear task specs.
$0/Month -- Self-Hosting an LLM API Server for Your Entire Team
A deep dive into building a local LLM API server on an RTX 3060. Ollama + FastAPI + Cloudflare Tunnel. 6 layers of security, real benchmarks, and hard-won lessons.
TL, DevOps, and PM Agents: Review, Deploy, and Coordinate
Build the Tech Lead (code review), DevOps (CI/CD generation), and PM (coordination) agents.
Tech Digest — April 1, 2026: AI Coding War, Supply Chain Security & Engineering Leadership
This week's top reads for Tech Leads & Engineers: the AI coding tools war heats up, Stripe's autonomous agents ship 1,300 PRs/week, software supply chain becomes the #1 attack vector, and engineering leadership rethinks itself.
Umbraco AI Migration Playbook: CI/CD for Azure App Service & Local Self-Host
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.
The Autonomous Software Team Field Guide: From Manual Workflows to AI-Driven Development with NanoClaw
A practical, hands-on guide to automating Developer, QC, and Tech Lead workflows across three maturity levels — Manual, Agentic (Claude Code), and Fully Autonomous (NanoClaw). With mermaid diagrams, real configs, BDD examples, and step-by-step instructions you can implement today.
ClawTeam Deep Dive: Running a Multi-Agent Dev Team on Your Personal Laptop
A comprehensive guide to ClawTeam — the open-source Agent Swarm Intelligence framework. Learn how to set up Dev, QC, and Tech Lead agents on a single laptop, handle security and performance concerns, prevent AI quality issues, and run a solo complex project with production-grade workflows.
Multi-Agent Deep Dive Part 5: CI/CD Pipeline for Agents — LangSmith Eval, Prompt Versioning & Canary Deploys
Production CI/CD patterns for multi-agent AI systems. Covers LangSmith evaluation pipelines, prompt versioning with S3, canary deployments, regression testing, cost monitoring gates, and automated rollback strategies.
Production Voice AI for Research at Scale: Deployment and Go-Live — From Docker Compose to 200 Concurrent Sessions
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.
Production Voice AI for Research at Scale: What Breaks at 200 Concurrent Sessions
Scaling from 10 sessions/week to 200 concurrent. The enrichment bottleneck (30,000 API calls), session recovery for dropped WebRTC connections, provider failover, and the operational metrics that keep it all visible.
Building KidSpark: CI/CD Pipeline and App Store Submission
Mobile CI/CD is not web CI/CD. Code signing, provisioning profiles, app bundles, and two very different app store review processes await. Here's how we automated the painful parts.
Shipping the Template: Multi-Tenant Onboarding, Cost Savings, and the Honest Retrospective
Turning MarketingOS into a reusable template: new client onboarding in under an hour, multi-tenant content management, cost analysis showing 70% reduction per site, lessons learned, and what I'd do differently.
Tech Coffee Break #8: My Code Works On My Machine! Now What?
CI/CD explained without the DevOps jargon. Two tech leads discuss how code actually gets from your laptop to production — pipelines, testing strategies, and deployment techniques that won't ruin your weekend.
Containerizing Umbraco and Next.js: Multi-Stage Docker Builds, Docker Compose, and a CI/CD Pipeline That Builds Confidence
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.
The AI DevOps & Platform Engineer: CI/CD, Observability & Platform Automation in the AI Era
How AI transforms the DevOps/Platform Engineer role: AI-assisted pipeline generation, incident diagnosis, capacity planning, GitOps automation, and the operational judgment that keeps systems running and teams unblocked.
The Voice AI Interview Playbook: Scaling to Thousands — Architecture for Concurrent Voice Sessions
From 10 concurrent interviews to 10,000. LiveKit SFU mesh, stateless agent workers, Kubernetes auto-scaling, regional deployment, and the infrastructure patterns that handle hiring season surges.
Tech Coffee Break #4: Containers Are Just... Fancy Zip Files?
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.
Production Voice AI for Research at Scale: Zombie Agents, Pre-Warming, and the 5 Bugs That Cost Us Weeks
The production pain points nobody warns you about: zombie agents, metadata latency, pre-warming for 1-2s time-to-first-voice, VAD tuning for research respondents, and provider quirks.
Upgrading Angular in a Production Ecommerce Project — The 6-Month Playbook
Post K — How to upgrade Angular safely in production: understanding the LTS policy, running ng update without surprises, handling NgRx and RxJS breaking changes, the upgrade branch strategy, and when to skip a version.
Production-Ready Clean Architecture: Deployment, Monitoring, and the Lessons I'd Share With My Past Self
Taking Kids Learn to production with Docker, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry observability, performance optimization, Native AOT considerations, and an honest retrospective on what worked and what was over-engineered.
Quality Gates That Actually Catch Bugs Before Production
Building a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions that enforces test coverage, performance budgets, visual regression, and AI response quality checks on every PR. Part 3 of the AI-powered quality engineering series.
AWS Full-Stack Mastery: DevOps with CodePipeline, CodeBuild & ECR
Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with CodePipeline, run tests and builds with CodeBuild, manage Docker images with ECR, implement blue/green deployments for ECS Fargate, and automate infrastructure changes with CDK Pipelines.
AWS Full-Stack Mastery: Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK
Define your entire AWS infrastructure in TypeScript with CDK v2. VPC design, multi-stack architecture, reusable constructs, and deploying to staging vs production with a single command.
AWS Full-Stack Mastery: Why AWS and Building Kids Learn from Scratch
Why we chose AWS to build the Kids Learn platform from the ground up. AWS Well-Architected Framework, account setup, cost planning, and the complete service map for a production SaaS.
Why We Stopped Fighting the Monolith and Started Strangling It
The story of migrating a 2M+ line retail platform to microservices. What the strangler pattern actually looks like when you're in the middle of it.
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