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Build a comprehensive Ansible playbook to automate web server deployment, configuration, and security hardening across multiple environments.
Deploy a DigitalOcean Droplet with Terraform
Learn Infrastructure as Code basics by deploying a simple web server on DigitalOcean using Terraform. Perfect for beginners starting their IaC journey.
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Short interactive quizzes across Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, and more
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GitOps with Argo CD: Multi-Environment Repository Structure Quiz
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Test your knowledge of structuring Git repositories for Argo CD deployments across dev, staging, and production environments. Covers repo layout patterns, ApplicationSets, Kustomize overlays, Helm value files, and sync policies.
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The napkin-math skill that makes or breaks a system design interview: turning users into QPS, data into storage, traffic into bandwidth, and knowing the latency numbers every engineer should have memorised.
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Prompt Caching on DigitalOcean Inference, Measured: What Breaks It and How Long It Lasts
We sent 867 requests with a long on-call runbook as the system prompt to three DigitalOcean-hosted models. With the runbook first and unchanged, the cache cut the input bill about 5 times on Llama 4 Maverick and more than 12 times on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. One timestamp on the first line turned it off on all three. Here is what else turns it off, how long a cached prefix lasted, and what prompt_cache_key does.
Neon Realtime, Measured: Live SQL Queries Replace the LISTEN/NOTIFY Layer We Built by Hand
Neon Realtime turns a SQL query into a live subscription. We rebuilt our hand-made LISTEN/NOTIFY layer on it as a live order board and measured it on a real Neon project: 48,600 writes at up to 100 per second, which queries are re-sent in full on every write, what a reconnect delivers, scale to zero, and 14 attempts to tamper with a sealed query.
SOC 2 Evidence From GitHub and Terraform, and the Part That Still Needs a Person
We pointed a small evidence collector at a repository whose main branch had a strict ruleset. The ruleset passed and three change-management controls failed. Here is which SOC 2 evidence you can pull from GitHub and Terraform, which still needs a person, and ten ways an evidence script can pass a control without evidence.
Postgres 19 Slipped to November: Every Pulled Feature and Why
PostgreSQL 19 now ships on 19 November, and 13 items left its release notes after beta 1. Here is each pulled feature with the reason from its revert, what to use instead, a script that finds beta-era code that depends on them, and why "AI found too many bugs" is only part of the story.
Let's Encrypt Goes to 64-Day Certificates: When Does Your ACME Client Actually Renew?
Let's Encrypt moves to 64-day certificates on 10 February 2027, and its staging environment already issues them. We issued real 64-day staging certificates with certbot, acme.sh and lego and recorded when each one renews. The ARI clients renewed or scheduled their renewal around day 42. acme.sh 3.0.7 with --days 80 scheduled its renewal for day 79, 15 days after the certificate expired, and upgrading to 3.1.6 fixed that at the next check.
Page, Ticket or Ignore: Is the Cheap Model Good Enough for Alert Triage?
We gave six models on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference one written on-call policy and 200 alerts, three times each. A model at $0.16 per 1,000 alerts made every call the same way as one at $1.64. The real differences were latency, missed pages and a bug in our own test data that the models caught.
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Security Gates
Implement automated security gates that block deployments on critical vulnerabilities, policy violations, and security failures. Shift security left in your CI/CD pipeline.
Introduction to Packer
Learn how to build automated machine images with HashiCorp Packer, from basic concepts to multi-platform image creation
Introduction to AWS
Learn AWS step by step by building a real cloud application. Covers IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, load balancing, Lambda, CloudWatch, and cost control.
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CIDR Calculator
CIDR subnet calculator: parse a CIDR block to get network range, subnet mask, broadcast address, usable IPs, and check whether an IP belongs to the network.
JWT Decoder
JWT decoder that parses the header, payload, and signature in your browser. Shows human-readable expiry and issued-at, with no token sent to any server.
Base64 / URL
Encode or decode base64 and URL-safe strings. Handy for secrets, Kubernetes manifests, and API debugging.
UUID / Secret
Generate UUIDs (v4, v7), random hex tokens, and base64 secrets suitable for Kubernetes secrets or API keys.
Cron Parser
Cron expression parser that translates schedules into plain English and previews the next 5 run times in your local timezone. Validates 5 and 6-field syntax.
K8s Resources
Size CPU and memory requests / limits for a Pod based on workload characteristics, replicas, and headroom.
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