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Field notes on running real applications on hardware that costs nothing, and the managed DevOps layer that makes it safe.
- Zero-downtime deploys on a single server — How blue/green deployment, health checks and automatic rollback work on one VM — the pattern that makes self-hosting as safe as a managed platform. (6 min read)
- Shipping an AI-built app to production: the checklist nobody gives you — You built an app with Lovable, Cursor or v0 and it works locally. Here is the production checklist — secrets, database, domains, backups, monitoring — before real users touch it. (10 min read)
- ARM64 Docker builds: the seven errors everyone hits first — exec format error, missing wheels, QEMU slowness and native module failures — the practical fixes for building Docker images that run on Oracle's Ampere A1 ARM instances. (9 min read)
- Free hosting is not free: the hidden cost of every free tier — Cold starts, sleeping services, bandwidth overages and lock-in — a practical audit of what free hosting plans actually cost you, and when self-hosting on Always Free hardware wins. (7 min read)
- Oracle Cloud Always Free limits in 2026: what you actually get — A current, no-marketing breakdown of Oracle Cloud's Always Free allowance in 2026 — ARM and AMD compute, storage, bandwidth, databases — and where the real limits bite. (8 min read)
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