NHNweke Henryinhenrycloud.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 10 min readThe Third Pillar — Distributed Traces Complete My Observability Stack (Week 6)Six weeks ago my boss sent a message on a Tuesday night. "Can you help with observability customisation?" I had never touched Prometheus. Never run Loki. Never heard of Tempo. Today the stack is compl00
OOtezVikentiyinbuildinggotcha.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 7 min readMy idle ClickHouse was merging 11 million rows every 30 secondsI run a small self-hosted observability tool on the cheapest VPS I could find on purpose: 2 cores, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SATA SSD. It ingests errors, traces and metrics from two low-traffic sites of mine. T00
DGDebashish Ghosalinleadership-notes.hashnode.dev·16h ago · 12 min readPlatform Strategy That Ships: 90-Day Bets, Kill Criteria, and the Only AI That MatteredTL;DR: Across separate 90-day cycles (2018, 2023, 2025), we shipped platform bets that hit real adoption in 90 days (telemetry: ~20 DAU / ~150 MAU; Backstage IDP: ~30 DAU / ~500 MAU) and a CI bet that00
EJEdwin Jonathaninedwinjonathand-devops.hashnode.dev·8h ago · 19 min readBuilding Production AI Observability on Kubernetes: OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, Prometheus & Grafana From Zero to ScaleBuilding Production-Grade AI Observability on Kubernetes Most AI teams are solving the wrong problem. Everyone is benchmarking models. Very few teams are benchmarking infrastructure. Production failur00
SHSanskriti Harmukhinvultr.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 5 min readDeploying Strapi on a Kubernetes ClusterStrapi is a headless CMS with an intuitive admin dashboard, custom content types, and role-based permissions, well-suited to Kubernetes for its scalability and multi-environment support. This guide bu00
SHSanskriti Harmukhinvultr.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 3 min readDeploying MariaDB on KubernetesMariaDB is a popular open-source relational database. Running it on Kubernetes gets you portability across environments, CI/CD integration, and automated backup/recovery alongside the usual scalabilit00
SHSanskriti Harmukhinvultr.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 5 min readDeploying Kubernetes Dashboard and Managing Cluster ResourcesKubernetes Dashboard is an open-source web GUI for managing cluster resources (CronJobs, DaemonSets, Deployments, Pods, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets) deploying apps, and monitoring cluster health in real00
ASAsep Sayyadinasepsayyad007.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 2 min read10 Mistakes That Broke My Self-Hosted Server (And How I Fixed Them) | Docker, DNS & Linux GuideSelf-hosting is one of the best ways to learn Linux, Docker, networking, and security. But things do not always go as planned. Here are ten common mistakes that caused problems on my server and the si00
SHSanskriti Harmukhinvultr.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 4 min readDeploying HAProxy on Ubuntu 22.04HAProxy is an open-source proxy that load-balances TCP and HTTP traffic across backend servers, routing each request based on health checks and your chosen balancing algorithm. This guide deploys HAPr00
SHSanskriti Harmukhinvultr.hashnode.dev·9h ago · 3 min readDeploying Gateway API with TLS Encryption on KubernetesThe Kubernetes Gateway API is the successor to Ingress — a more expressive, role-oriented resource model (GatewayClass, Gateway, HTTPRoute) for advanced traffic routing and cross-namespace connectivit00