The DevOps tag is where I collect articles, guides, and experiments focused on making platform choices, performance tuning, and long-term maintenance less painful. If you’re comparing options or already running DevOps in production, this page keeps everything in one place.
Five used ThinkCentre M900 Tiny systems gave me inexpensive, replaceable homelab nodes after I verified compatibility, tested every unit, and planned for failure.
Use Amplify branch deployments with clear promotion rules, environment-specific configuration, and repeatable production checks.
Move an Amplify Gen 2 application from a personal sandbox to production without mixing backend outputs, secrets, or branch data.
Use Codex for deployment preparation and verification while keeping credentials, approvals, and release decisions under human control.
Protect the Strapi database and uploaded media with separate backups, retention, restore order, and tested recovery steps.
Use Codex to inspect a diff, trace affected consumers, verify findings, and run release checks while keeping human approval in control.
A requirement-by-requirement comparison of Amplify and Vercel for Next.js, including deployment workflow, backend services, pricing variables, and operational ownership.
WordPress is still powerful, but it is also easy to misuse. Plugin bloat, security maintenance, governance drama, and developer friction make it risky for serious business websites. Here is why modern teams should avoid WordPress when possible and consider cleaner architecture with Strapi and Next.js.
Compare Strapi Cloud and self-hosting by operational ownership, infrastructure control, backups, upgrades, cost drivers, and migration work.
Deploy Strapi on Railway with PostgreSQL, persistent uploads, production secrets, verification steps, backups, and clear operational ownership.
Plan a Strapi deployment on AWS around network boundaries, workload identity, database and media recovery, secret handling, observability, and updates.
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