Cloud & DevOps
Articles about cloud & devops, written from real client work and hands-on builds.
Can You Trust an AI Spending Limit? What My Gateway Test Showed
A small gateway test stopped repeated requests without cutting off another key. The allowance still overshot. Here’s how I’d turn that result into a buying decision.
Why Per-Tool Permissions Aren’t Enough for AI Agents
I tested prompt-only, stateless, and AgentCore temporal controls to show why AI agent permissions can still allow an unsafe sequence of tool calls.
Why I Moved MCP Server Authentication Off n8n—and Kept the Workflows
I moved MCP server authentication from n8n to AWS while keeping proven write workflows. Here is the architecture, security boundary, and migration tradeoff.
How a Quoted $7K/Year Supabase Access Path Became a $38–$45/Month AWS Read Layer
A quoted $7,000-per-year access path led me to build a governed AWS read layer estimated at $38–$45 per month—without replacing Supabase.
The Hidden Cost of Self-Hosting AI: Not the Server Bill
Self-hosting AI looks like a bargain at $48/month — until it breaks and you realize the bill was the easy part.
I Thought Deploying an MCP Server to Azure Would Be Simple. Three Port Conflicts Later…
FastMCP worked locally. Docker ran fine. Then Azure deployment hit port conflicts, auth failures, and container issues. Here is how I fixed all of it.
Claude Code Needed a Home. Archon Gave Me a Security Education Instead.
Setting up a self-hosted AI stack turned into a crash course in Docker networking, zero-trust security, and why simple solutions beat perfect ones.
From Replit to Docker and Self-hosting: When Simple Becomes Complex
Moving a campaign management system from Replit to Docker self-hosting. What started as just move it became a complexity sequel.
Setting Up Uptime Kuma: When ‘Just Monitor My Stuff’ Becomes a Linux Deep Dive
A customer called about a broken form before I knew it was down. Setting up Uptime Kuma turned into a full Linux monitoring deep dive.
From Self-Hosted Chaos to CI/CD Zen: My DevOps Reality Check
A simple database migration turned into firewall lockouts, auth failures, and AWS having a bad day. Here is my DevOps reality check.
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