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You know that moment when you’re staring at three different cloud platforms, each promising to be the future of AI development, and you start second-guessing everything you thought you knew? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. I found myself caught in the classic developer trap: shiny new tool syndrome. Azure AI Foundry had…

You know that moment when you’re running a perfectly functional self-hosted stack, and you think “This could be better”? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. What started as a simple database migration turned into a full-blown DevOps adventure complete with firewall lockouts, authentication failures, and AWS deciding to have a bad day. Here’s…

Sometimes the best solutions come from the worst problems. In this case, that problem was watching a digital marketing agency’s SaaS costs spiral out of control because of one simple feature: client access. Here’s how I turned a $300/month Airtable portal into a completely free, secure campaign management system using Google Sheets, some creative automation,…

So Microsoft and Google both had their big keynotes recently, and honestly, they got me pretty excited about the current state of agent development. Google was pushing their Agent Development Kit with MCP (Model Context Protocol), while Microsoft was all-in on AI Foundry. Different approaches, but both seemed like they could be game-changers. Here’s the…

My Journey from DigitalOcean to AWS with Terraform Transitioning from DigitalOcean to AWS wasn’t just a technical challenge—it was a significant milestone in my professional growth. In this post, I’ll share my practical journey of migrating an application stack using Terraform for infrastructure automation, focusing on lessons learned, solutions found, and what’s next. Initial Stack:…