Devops

A few weeks ago I wrote about building a $0/month enterprise platform on Oracle’s free ARM tier. Twenty-one pods, service mesh, secrets management, AI observability — the whole works, running on a single ARM instance with 24GB of RAM. It worked. Everything was up. The pods were green. I could hit my apps through Traefik and feel smug about paying nothing. But here’s the thing about infrastructure: running is the easy part. The hard part is knowing whether it’s running well — and whether it’ll keep running when something goes sideways at 3 AM. ...

The terminal is linear. Commands scroll up. Output disappears. Information exists only in the moment. But what if it didn’t have to be this way? The Problem with Traditional Terminals I spend most of my day in a terminal. SSH sessions, log tailing, git operations, monitoring scripts. The workflow is always the same: run a command, read the output, run another command. Previous context scrolls away into oblivion. To cope, we invented tools: ...