FGFelix Gogodaeinblog.felixgogodae.xyz·Jun 11 · 14 min readTwo Hard Problems from My HNG Internship: Building a WAL from Scratch, Then Making Prometheus WorkTwo Hard Problems from My HNG Internship: Building a WAL from Scratch, Then Making Prometheus Work During HNG14 I worked on two tracks simultaneously. The solo track was a series of backend stages — e00
FGFelix Gogodaeinblog.felixgogodae.xyz·Jun 10 · 23 min readI Built a Distributed Secrets Manager from Scratch in Bash — Here's Everything That Went WrongWhen the project brief said "build a secrets manager from scratch," I assumed it meant building a wrapper around existing tools. Then I read further: no HashiCorp Vault, no AWS Secrets Manager, no wra00
FGFelix Gogodaeinblog.felixgogodae.xyz·Jun 10 · 23 min readStrongBox V2: Engineering Design Document : From Bash Prototype to Production-Ready Secrets InfrastructureContext StrongBox V1 is a distributed secrets manager built entirely in Bash. It runs as a 3-node cluster behind Nginx TLS, uses ncat as an HTTP server (one forked process per TCP connection), stores 00
FGFelix Gogodaeinblog.felixgogodae.xyz·May 13 · 13 min readI Built a Self-Service Sandbox Platform with Docker, Nginx, and Bash — Here's How It All WorksI wanted to build something that captures the real operational concerns of a platform team in a small, understandable package — not a toy "Hello World in Docker," but a system where you can actually s00
FGFelix Gogodaeinblog.felixgogodae.xyz·Apr 30 · 10 min readBuilding Insighta: Django + React + CLI Profiles PlatformIntroduction Most tutorials stop at “here’s a REST API.” They rarely walk through shipping a multi-client platform: a browser SPA that authenticates differently from a CLI, rate limiting that must wor10
