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May 01, 20261 min read

Notes on backend systems, infrastructure, reliability, and operating production software.

Notes

  • Building a Personal Homelab Without Burning Out
  • Cloudflare Mesh vs Tunnel
  • Containerizing Serverless Workloads
  • Failure-Mode Thinking as a Design Discipline
  • GitOps Is a Recovery Pattern
  • Migration Checklists Should Start With Rollback
  • Mesh VPNs Are Access Paths, Not Authorization
  • Production Readiness Is a Set of Invariants
  • Runbooks Are Interfaces
  • Small Team Infrastructure Decisions

10 items under this folder.

  • May 01, 2026

    Cloudflare Mesh vs Tunnel

    • garden
    • engineering
    • networking
    • cloudflare
    • infrastructure
  • May 01, 2026

    Containerizing Serverless Workloads

    • garden
    • engineering
    • infrastructure
    • migration
  • May 01, 2026

    GitOps Is a Recovery Pattern

    • garden
    • engineering
    • gitops
    • reliability
    • infrastructure
  • May 01, 2026

    Mesh VPNs Are Access Paths, Not Authorization

    • garden
    • engineering
    • networking
    • security
    • operations
  • May 01, 2026

    Migration Checklists Should Start With Rollback

    • garden
    • engineering
    • reliability
    • migration
  • May 01, 2026

    Production Readiness Is a Set of Invariants

    • garden
    • engineering
    • reliability
    • kubernetes
    • operations
  • May 01, 2026

    Runbooks Are Interfaces

    • garden
    • engineering
    • operations
    • reliability
  • May 01, 2026

    Small Team Infrastructure Decisions

    • garden
    • engineering
    • infrastructure
    • decision-making
  • Apr 25, 2026

    Failure-Mode Thinking as a Design Discipline

    • garden
    • engineering
    • reliability
    • mental-model
  • Apr 17, 2026

    Building a Personal Homelab Without Burning Out

    • garden
    • engineering
    • homelab
    • infrastructure

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