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Still Using -var-file? Here’s Why auto.tfvars Can Simplify Your Terraform Workflow Continue reading on Medium »

How I Built My Technical Portfolio Using Real-World Projects Continue reading on Medium »

Why CDNs Exist and How to Build the Foundation of One Yourself Continue reading on Medium »

I have a small script, reply_comments.py , that keeps me from having to re-scan every DEV.to article for new comments by hand. It has two commands: pending (una

Add human approval to a cron job so the schedule fires but the side effect waits for your go-ahead — with a working Python example and expiry window guidance. W

Two days ago I catalogued the tool surface of the public MCP registry: a random sample of 500 live servers, 477 inventories captured, every tool's inputSchema h

An MCP server can give an AI assistant access to a filesystem, browser, database, API, or internal service. That makes installation less like adding a bookmark

There is a number going around that roughly half of all remote MCP servers are dead. I had repeated it myself, in the README of a tool I published. I could not

The comparison that keeps coming up is "BrassCoders or CodeRabbit?" The framing is understandable but misses the real question: these tools don't occupy the sam

I originally installed Prefect because a client wanted scheduled data processing. Continue reading on Medium »

Learn what Docker containers are, how they work, understand the complete container lifecycle, and master the Docker commands every… Continue reading on Medium »

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The latest update to hermes-memory-installer addresses a critical gap in operational monitoring: the alert mechanism for host resource pressure was failing to t

Nginx is a gate that sits between the internet and the servers. When a client requests a resource, the request first goes to this gate… Continue reading on Medi

A tiny coding CLI has an awkward failure mode: the prompt leaves the terminal, the spinner stops, and nobody knows whether the task ran. Retrying feels producti

Every incident has two clocks. Continue reading on Medium »

A recent commit in the hermes-memory-installer project updated a consistency note in the documentation to remove a direct commit hash reference. The message: do

Restart policies, memory limits, log rotation, healthchecks, named volumes — five compose keys that separate a demo from a deploy. Continue reading on Medium »

🚀 MyZubster is Live! From Zero to Production on a VPS After hours of development and debugging, MyZubster is now live and accessible on a production VPS! 📌 Wh

Originally published at curatedmcp.com/blog/week-2026-30 MCP Ecosystem Week 30: When Your Developers' AI Tools Connect to Everything—What's in Your Allowlist? T

I sat down on a Saturday to self-host SigNoz and hit this in the repo's deploy/ folder: Note: The install.sh script and the docker-compose manifests have been d

Connecting the SigNoz MCP server to Claude Code, a real latency hunt, and the traps that make the AI confidently wrong. A service in my stack got slow: p99 late

An MCP server can start successfully and still be the wrong thing to put in a production host. The decisive evidence is not the JSON you… Continue reading on Me

Infrastructure setup is one of the most repeated tasks in software development. Every new project needs a database, a cache, a message… Continue reading on ITNE