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DevOpsJune 202510 min read

Google Cloud vs DigitalOcean: A Practical Guide for Side-Project Developers

A hands-on comparison of Google Cloud and DigitalOcean from a developer who runs production workloads on both — covering pricing, managed services, and when to use each.

DevOpsJune 202511 min read

Grafana + Prometheus Monitoring Stack for Your VPS: Complete Setup Guide

Set up a production-grade Grafana and Prometheus monitoring stack on a VPS using Docker Compose, with Node Exporter, alerting via Telegram, and real PromQL dashboards.

DevOpsJune 20259 min read

Zero-Downtime Deployments with NGINX Blue-Green on a Single VPS

Implement blue-green deployments on a single VPS using NGINX and Docker — swap live traffic between two containers with a shell script and achieve true zero-downtime releases.

DevOpsJune 20258 min read

Automate SSL Certificate Renewal with Certbot and NGINX

Set up automatic HTTPS with Certbot and Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu, configure NGINX as a TLS terminator, and never manually renew an SSL certificate again.

DevOpsJune 202510 min read

Self-Hosted Observability Stack on DigitalOcean: Metrics, Logs, and Alerts

Build a complete self-hosted observability platform on a single DigitalOcean Droplet — Prometheus metrics, Loki log aggregation, Grafana dashboards, and Telegram alerting for under $25/month.

DevOpsJune 202512 min read

Kubernetes for the Solo Developer: A Practical GKE Guide Without the Overhead

A pragmatic guide to running production Kubernetes on GKE Autopilot as a solo developer — avoiding common pitfalls, minimizing cost, and setting up a CI/CD pipeline that actually works.

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