This blog is where I share thoughts, lessons, and practical insights on backend engineering, infrastructure, systems architecture, and the realities of building software that works well in the real world.
In the past, when you needed to deploy an application to a server, you had to acquire a server, set it up, install all the required software, and configure these programs to prepare the application for execution. In an enterprise environment? This sa...
It is not just recommended but crucial to create a new user separate from the default “root” user on provisioning a new Digital Ocean droplet. Why? For security reasons. Relying solely on the ‘root’ user for remote access is similar to leaving your ...
One of the hardest website hosting control panels to use in hosting static web applications like a react app is CPanel, the reason is that by default CPanel is not built for handling static web applications. On the other hand, if you plan on hosting ...
The newest Apple Silicon M1 chips are not compatible with some Docker images and end up throwing: no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries To fix this error, run the following: export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 export COMPOSE_DOCKE...
