One Person, 34 Services: How AI Tooling Changed the Economics of Running a Production-Grade HomelabA platform engineer's honest account of using Claude Code, MCP integrations, and GitOps to manage a Kubernetes cluster that has no business being run by a single person. The Absurd Premise Here are the numbers. Three Proxmox bare-metal Dell Optiplex ...Feb 9 · 15 min readblog.coutinho.io
Building an EU-Only AI Stack: Nextcloud MCP on Leaf.cloudA journey through self-hosted LLMs, MCP integration challenges, and cost-effective observability The promise is compelling: connect your personal knowledge base to AI assistants while keeping everything within EU borders. No data leaving the contine...Feb 2 · 9 min readblog.coutinho.io
Introducing Astrolabe: Navigate Your Data Universe in NextcloudYour Nextcloud instance holds years of notes, projects, recipes, contacts, and documents. But when you need to find something, you're stuck typing exact keywords and hoping for the best. Search "car repair" and miss that note titled "Vehicle maintena...Jan 30 · 8 min readblog.coutinho.io
Introducing the Nextcloud MCP ServerNextcloud MCP Server The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem continues to grow, and I’m excited to introduce the new Nextcloud MCP server! This server bridges the gap between your development environment and your Nextcloud instance, specifically t...May 5, 2025 · 2 min readblog.coutinho.io
Leveling up KafkaOps with ConduktorAs organizations embrace streaming data, Apache Kafka has emerged as the backbone for low-latency, high-throughput event processing. This distributed streaming platform enables companies to build real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. H...Nov 6, 2024 · 6 min readblog.coutinho.io
