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Growing an Engineering Blog with SEO: What Actually Worked

Career

July 20268 min read

Growing an Engineering Blog with SEO: What Actually Worked

How I took a bilingual engineering blog from zero organic visits to steady long-tail search traffic using structured data, disciplined metadata, and internal linking, not guesswork.

Prometheus Cardinality: Recording Rules That Save Your TSDB

DevOps

July 202610 min read

Prometheus Cardinality: Recording Rules That Save Your TSDB

High-cardinality labels quietly eat your Prometheus server's RAM until it OOMs. Here is how recording rules, label hygiene, and relabeling keep the TSDB small and PromQL fast.

VictoriaMetrics vs Prometheus for Long-Term Metrics

DevOps

July 20269 min read

VictoriaMetrics vs Prometheus for Long-Term Metrics

When to move from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics for long-term retention: storage efficiency, MetricsQL, resource use, and a safe migration path.

Renovate: Automated Dependency Updates Done Right

DevOps

July 20268 min read

Renovate: Automated Dependency Updates Done Right

A practical guide to configuring Renovate for painless dependency updates, covering grouping, automerge rules, scheduling, and lockfile maintenance so pull requests stay useful instead of noisy.

Tailscale: A Mesh VPN for Your Servers and Homelab

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Tailscale: A Mesh VPN for Your Servers and Homelab

How to connect servers, laptops, and a homelab into a single private network with Tailscale's WireGuard mesh, then self-host the control plane with Headscale.

OpenTelemetry Collector: Designing a Telemetry Pipeline

DevOps

July 202610 min read

OpenTelemetry Collector: Designing a Telemetry Pipeline

A practical walkthrough of architecting an OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline, from receivers and processors to tail-based sampling and multi-backend exporting.

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