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Devops
Fly.io to Hetzner + Coolify: How I Cut My Bill by 80%
I moved gazar.dev off Fly.io to a self-hosted Hetzner CPX42 running Coolify, cut my monthly bill to a fifth, and ended up with a faster, leaner setup.
17 May 2026
Lefthook vs Husky: Why I Switched and Never Looked Back
Lefthook replaces Husky and lint-staged with a single Go binary, parallel hook execution, and built-in file filtering. Here is why I switched and kept going.
10 May 2026
Monorepo Tools Compared: NX, Turborepo, Bazel, and Rush
Compare the leading monorepo tools: NX, Turborepo, Bazel, Rush, and PNPM workspaces. Choose the right fit for your team size, stack, and build needs.
5 May 2026
AWS Databases: A Comprehensive Guide
AWS has a database service for almost every use case. The breadth is both its strength and its trap — pick the wrong one and you're fighting the tool inst...
17 May 2024
TLS and HTTPS: Understanding How They Work
Every time you see the padlock icon in your browser, TLS is doing the heavy lifting. It encrypts the data flowing between your browser and the server so n...
7 May 2024
Sample Next.js application using Terraform in AWS
I got tired of manually provisioning EC2 instances through the AWS console. Click here, fill that, wait, click again. One wrong setting and you're debuggi...
5 May 2024
Polipo — caching web proxy
I needed to map one port to another while tunneling over SSH. It's a common problem — you have a proxy on one port but need traffic from another port to r...
13 Oct 2023
My experience with docker
"It works on my machine." I heard that line dozens of times before Docker. Different Node versions, missing system libraries, conflicting dependencies — t...
13 Oct 2023