Designing a Production-Ready Docker Compose Stack
How we structure multi-service applications, manage dependencies, and avoid the common pitfalls when promoting Compose stacks toward production.
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Platform Engineering
Security
Stop Hardcoding Secrets: A Practical Vault Playbook
A step-by-step guide to moving database credentials, MinIO keys, and API tokens out of your code and into Vault.
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Networking
Nginx as a Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer
Real-world Nginx configurations for routing traffic to backend and frontend containers, including TLS, health checks, and graceful reloads.
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Databases
Hardening PostgreSQL for Production Workloads
Roles, backups, connection pooling, slow query monitoring — the checklist we use to take Postgres from "it works on my laptop" to production-ready.
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Storage
Self-Hosted Object Storage with MinIO
Why we run MinIO for image and file storage, how it integrates with backend services, and how to keep your data safe with versioning and replication.
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Reliability
Monitoring That Actually Helps You Sleep
What to monitor first, what to ignore, and how to build alerts that wake you up only when something is genuinely broken.
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