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SumoPod Review: Cheap Indonesian VPS for Self-Hosting

Cloud

July 20268 min read

SumoPod Review: Cheap Indonesian VPS for Self-Hosting

A hands-on review of SumoPod, the cheap Indonesian VPS I run daily: real rupiah pricing, what I self-host, setup, and the catches.

Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts: Canary & Blue-Green

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts: Canary & Blue-Green

How I ship to Kubernetes with Argo Rollouts — canary and blue-green strategies, Prometheus-driven analysis, and automatic rollback when an SLO breaks.

Bun vs Node.js as a Production Runtime in 2026

Backend

July 20269 min read

Bun vs Node.js as a Production Runtime in 2026

Bun and Node.js are closer than the benchmarks suggest in 2026 — here is where each actually wins in production, from startup to native addons.

Expose Self-Hosted Services Safely with Cloudflare Tunnel

Security

July 20269 min read

Expose Self-Hosted Services Safely with Cloudflare Tunnel

How I reach my homelab and VPS from anywhere with zero inbound ports open — cloudflared config, ingress rules, and Zero Trust access policies.

Debouncing and Throttling in React the Right Way

Web Dev

July 20269 min read

Debouncing and Throttling in React the Right Way

Why naive useEffect timers leak, how to build a reusable useDebounce hook, and how to clean up debounce and throttle on unmount in React.

Docker Buildx Bake: Declarative Multi-Platform Image Builds

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Docker Buildx Bake: Declarative Multi-Platform Image Builds

How I replaced a wall of copy-pasted docker build commands with one declarative HCL bake file — matrix targets, scoped caching, and a GitHub Actions workflow that stays identical to my local build.

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