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Don't Overengineer

It's Saturday. I just woke up. And I mean just woke up. You know those weird, fever-dream-like states you're in right before your alarm? I was dreaming about code. Yeah, it’s weird. I was trapped in this endless meeting room, and every time the app was slow, a project manager would slam a new, giant textbook on the table. "We need CQRS!" one shouted. "Rewrite it in Rust!" another yelled. "I've ordered a 12-node Kubernetes cluster!" a third one announced, while the app was just glitching in the

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A Friendly Guide to Pagination

Ever found yourself scrolling endlessly through a massive list of search results, social media posts, or online store products? It can feel like diving into an ocean without a map! That feeling of being overwhelmed by too much information at once is exactly what pagination is designed to solve. Think of pagination like flipping through the pages of a book or magazine. Instead of getting the entire story dumped on you in one go, you get it in nice, digestible chunks – pages! In the digital world

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Encrypted Server Backups to S3 with Duplicati

1 - How I Built My Own Server Using Local and Cloud Resources 2 - Deploying containers via Cloudflare Tunnel (Zero Trust) 3 - Reverse proxy on Oracle VPS with Traefik 4 - Encrypted Server Backups to S3 with Duplicati This is the last part of the build-server series. After setting up a reverse proxy, it's important to keep your data safe. In this guide, we'll use Duplicati to back up your VPS (e.g Oracle VPS) to an S3-compatible service with encryption. Duplicati is a lightweight and powerful b

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Reverse Proxy on Oracle VPS with Traefik

1 - How I Built My Own Server Using Local and Cloud Resources 2 - Deploying containers via Cloudflare Tunnel (Zero Trust) 3 - Reverse proxy on Oracle VPS with Traefik 4 - Encrypted Server Backups to S3 with Duplicati In the previous part, we transformed a set-top box (STB) into a personal Docker server, complete with Portainer and Cloudflare Tunnel. Now, let’s take it a step further. In this part, we’ll set up a Reverse Proxy using Traefik on an Oracle Cloud Free Tier VPS (or any VPS). This a

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