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Helm 4 Migration Guide: What's New and How to Upgrade

DevOps

August 20269 min read

Helm 4 Migration Guide: What's New and How to Upgrade

Helm 4 is the first major release in years. Here are the real breaking changes — server-side apply, the new plugin system, registry login — and my migration checklist.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): Get Cited by AI Search

Web Dev

August 202610 min read

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): Get Cited by AI Search

How I structure articles so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews quote them — answer-first writing, FAQPage and TechArticle schema, and measuring AI-referral traffic.

Security

August 20269 min read

Content Security Policy in Next.js: Nonces & strict-dynamic

How I lock down XSS in Next.js with a per-request nonce, strict-dynamic, and a safe Report-Only rollout.

OpenFGA ReBAC: Fine-Grained Multi-Tenant Authorization

Security

August 202610 min read

OpenFGA ReBAC: Fine-Grained Multi-Tenant Authorization

Why RBAC breaks in multi-tenant SaaS and how OpenFGA, the Zanzibar-inspired ReBAC engine, models permissions as relationship tuples checked at the resource level.

Load Testing Node.js APIs with k6 and Grafana Dashboards

DevOps

August 202610 min read

Load Testing Node.js APIs with k6 and Grafana Dashboards

How I load test Node.js APIs with k6 — writing tests, VUs and stages, thresholds as CI gates, streaming to Grafana, and finding the DB connection-pool ceiling.

Podman Quadlets: Replace Docker Compose with systemd

DevOps

August 20269 min read

Podman Quadlets: Replace Docker Compose with systemd

How I moved a self-hosted server off Docker Compose to Podman Quadlets — rootless containers described as native systemd units, with auto-restart, journald logs, and built-in auto-update.

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