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When Your VPS Never Had the Resources It Was Sold With

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

When Your VPS Never Had the Resources It Was Sold With

I needed a VPS to run CyberPanel. Simple enough: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD, IPv6 only. CyberPanel...

CyberPanel's SSL Auto-Renewal Can Silently Fail — Here's the Fix

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

CyberPanel's SSL Auto-Renewal Can Silently Fail — Here's the Fix

Last week I was doing a routine check on a CyberPanel server and noticed something that didn't add...

What Replacing Calendly Taught Me About Trusting Open Source

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

What Replacing Calendly Taught Me About Trusting Open Source

cal.com, Calendly, zcal... booking SaaS isn't short on options, and most of them are genuinely...

Eighty Percent Done Is Not a Real Number

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Eighty Percent Done Is Not a Real Number

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Why this...

Too cheap to be good? Think again.

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Too cheap to be good? Think again.

I replaced aaPanel/OpenLiteSpeed with Caddy and shell scripts and turned the process into a benchmark. Two phases (architecture then code), one external code re

Stop Ignoring RFC 2324. It's the Most Important Protocol You've Never Implemented.

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 7mo ago

Stop Ignoring RFC 2324. It's the Most Important Protocol You've Never Implemented.

HTCPCP/1.0, the 418 teapot, a full interactive dashboard, and why a 1998 April Fools RFC teaches better software design than most tech books.

When DEV.to Stats Aren't Enough: Building My Own Memory

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 8mo ago

When DEV.to Stats Aren't Enough: Building My Own Memory

One Tuesday morning at 9:14 AM, my six-month-old article got 37 views in 20 minutes. DEV.to's...

MyScaleDB: Why Vector Databases Need SQL (The 2025 Reality Check)

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 10mo ago

MyScaleDB: Why Vector Databases Need SQL (The 2025 Reality Check)

Context: I'm architecting a system analyzing 26M+ legal documents per year across 188,000 family law...

Using CTEs When Your ORM Says No (The Lazy Developer's Survival Guide)

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 10mo ago

Using CTEs When Your ORM Says No (The Lazy Developer's Survival Guide)

You just spent two articles learning about CTEs. You're excited. You've seen the power. You...

The Control Paradox: How Letting Go Made My Team More Productive

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 10mo ago

The Control Paradox: How Letting Go Made My Team More Productive

After exposing the theater (I) and watching its actors perfect their organized laziness (II), it’s...

Efficient Laziness at Scale: The Agile Team I Never Needed

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 📅 Project Management ⚡ AI Lesson 10mo ago

Efficient Laziness at Scale: The Agile Team I Never Needed

It was never there. And if it had been, I’d have dissolved it on day one. How I run my mega...

Actually Agile: Against Performance Theater in Software Development

Dev.to · Pascal CESCATO 📅 Project Management ⚡ AI Lesson 10mo ago

Actually Agile: Against Performance Theater in Software Development

"You're not a Certified Scrum Master? Then you can't possibly understand." I've heard this too many...