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DevOpsJuly 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.

DevOpsJuly 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.

DevOpsJuly 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.

DevOpsJuly 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.

BackendJune 20269 min read

NestJS Health Checks with Terminus for Kubernetes & Docker

A practical walkthrough of building liveness and readiness probes in NestJS with the official @nestjs/terminus package, wired into real Docker and Kubernetes configs.

DevOpsJune 202611 min read

Controlling Docker From Your Backend: dockerode and the Socket

How to let a Node.js backend list, start, and create Docker containers directly with dockerode — and why mounting the Docker socket is a security decision, not a shortcut.

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