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Cloud bills can spiral out of control fast. We show you 5 simple, practical AWS optimizations you can set up in minutes to save money and eliminate waste.

We recently open-sourced the agent for our new server monitoring tool, WatchGrid. It wasn’t just a marketing move; it is a reflection of how the software landscape is changing.

When working with Terraform in a team, remote backends are required. We show you how to set up the GitLab HTTP backend and Hetzner Object Storage.

The monitoring dilemma: for simple setups and client VMs, Prometheus is too complex to maintain and Datadog is too expensive. Here is the story of why we built WatchGrid and why we took matters into our own hands.

Introduction to the Python package manager uv. How does it work? In which areas can it be used? And the comparison with established tools like pip and venv.

A brief overview of what to consider with CI/CD and how to implement it successfully

Minimize risks, maximize availability. Releases with minimal downtime and fast recovery from issues.

Need to receive server logs and output from failing jobs via email? msmtp makes it easy.

How to create a sustainable backup concept with minimal effort using a shell script.