The AI Coding Assistant That Actually Saved Me 10 Hours a WeekI was skeptical. Really skeptical. When Cursor and Copilot started showing up everywhere, I rolled my eyes hard. "Great, another tool that's going to write buggy code and make me clean up its mess," I thought. I'd tried the early versions. They were....Feb 9 ยท 9 min readblog.essare.me
How I Built CommunoPlus: The Communauto Problem That Changed EverythingIt was a Saturday morning in Montreal, and I was standing on a street corner, frantically refreshing the Communauto app on my phone. Again. And again. And again. I needed to pick up some furniture from a friend across town, then drop it off at my pla...Nov 8, 2025 ยท 7 min readblog.essare.me
DevOps in 2025: A Real Talk About What's Actually Changed (And What Hasn't)I was grabbing coffee โ with a former colleague last week, and she asked me something that made me pause: "Is DevOps still... DevOps? Or has it become something completely different?" ๐ค It got me thinking. I've been doing this for over a decade now,...Aug 17, 2025 ยท 5 min readblog.essare.me
The Cloud Security Wake-Up Call Every Startup Founder Needs to HearPicture this: It's 2 AM, you're finally ready to deploy your MVP after months of grinding, and then you get that email. Your AWS bill is $50,000. For the month. Yeah, that actually happened to a founder I know. Turns out, someone found their misconfi...Oct 24, 2024 ยท 7 min readblog.essare.me
Create and Manage a Kubernetes Cluster from Scratch using AWS EC2 instancesKubernetes has become the go-to solution for container orchestration, offering robust capabilities to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. In this blog post, we will walk through the process of creating a Ku...Feb 17, 2024 ยท 9 min readblog.essare.me