DevOps

When DevOps Meets SEO: Automating Core Web Vitals in Your CI/CD Pipeline

Catch LCP and CLS regressions in the pull request, not in production. A complete guide to Lighthouse CI in GitLab, performance budgets as merge blockers, and automating GSC field-data alerts into Jira via n8n.

DevOps

FinOps for the Modern Stack: Taming Cloud Costs Before They Tame You

The average organization wastes 31% of its cloud spend. A practical guide to shift-left cost estimation with Infracost, eliminating egress fees with Cloudflare R2, ephemeral environments, and right-sizing Kubernetes workloads.

DevOps

Moving Beyond Pipelines: Building a Self-Service Developer Platform with GitLab

YAML fatigue is real. When every deployment requires a DevOps ticket, your pipeline is blocking you—not enabling you. A practical guide to building a GitLab-native IDP with component catalogs, Workload Identity Federation, and policy-as-code.

Hosting

Navigating the Edge: Vercel vs. Cloudflare for Modern Web Architecture

Vercel owns developer experience. Cloudflare owns the network. A deep-dive into CI/CD integration, IaC, observability, and when each platform actually wins.

Security

AI Supply Chain Security: The Developer's Guide for 2026

How to audit your AI dependencies, detect model poisoning, and protect your ML pipeline from emerging supply chain attacks.

AI

Building Production RAG Systems in 2026

Architecture patterns, chunking strategies, and evaluation frameworks for RAG systems that actually work in production.

AI

Vector Databases Compared: Pinecone vs Weaviate vs pgvector

Benchmark results and real cost data across four vector databases. Which one is right for your scale and use case?

AI

OpenAI vs Claude vs Gemini: Real Benchmark Data 2026

I ran 500 tasks across GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 2.0. Here are the actual performance numbers and cost per task.

AI

AI Agent Frameworks 2026: AutoGPT vs CrewAI vs LangGraph

I built the same agent 5 times with different frameworks. CrewAI won for multi-agent systems, LangGraph for complex workflows.

AI

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Should You Use in 2026?

Real cost and performance data from 6 months of production use. RAG won for 80% of use cases — 8x cheaper upfront, easier to maintain.

AI

MCP vs LangChain: Which AI Framework Should You Use in 2026?

Model Context Protocol vs LangChain: real comparison of performance, complexity, and use cases. MCP is 10x simpler for tool integration.

MCP

Building Your First MCP Server in 15 Minutes

A practical guide to creating your first Model Context Protocol server. From zero to production-ready with TypeScript or Python.

Hosting

Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages: Real Cost Comparison

I deployed the same app to all three platforms and tracked every dollar for 3 months. The cheapest option depends heavily on your traffic pattern.

Hosting

Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda: Performance and Cost in 2026

Real latency benchmarks, cold start comparisons, and pricing analysis. Which serverless platform wins for your workload?

Frameworks

Next.js vs Astro 2026: Performance and Cost Benchmarks

Real performance benchmarks and hosting costs for Next.js 15 vs Astro 5. Astro is 3x faster for content sites — here's the data.

Database

Supabase vs Firebase: Which BaaS Saves You Money in 2026?

Real cost comparison for 5K, 50K, and 500K users. Complete pricing breakdown with auth, database, and storage.

Hosting

Self-Hosting vs Cloud: I Tracked Every Dollar for 1 Year

Real costs on Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, and Vercel. Self-hosting saved $3,444/year at high traffic — but there's a catch.

AI

Local LLMs vs API: Real Cost Data from 6 Months

Self-hosted Llama 3 vs OpenAI/Claude APIs. Local LLMs saved $4,200/month at scale, but only past 10M tokens/day.

Hosting

AWS vs Vercel: Real Cost Comparison After 6 Months

I ran the same Next.js app on both AWS and Vercel for 6 months. Here's what I actually paid and what I learned.

DevOps

5 Deployment Mistakes That Cost Me Hours (And How to Avoid Them)

From CloudFront cache issues to environment variable nightmares, here are the mistakes I made so you don't have to.

Hosting

How to Choose the Right Cloud Provider for Your Project

AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, or Vercel? A framework for making the decision based on your actual needs.