David Palacios
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CeibaAWSSREChaos EngineeringReliabilityIAMFinOpsTerraformPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure
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Why I Intentionally Broke My Production System (And You Should Too)

Ceiba has a CloudWatch alarm that stops the production instance at $70 to keep the bill under $80. It had never actually run. This is what happened when I made it run, three times, and the instrumentation gap it exposed.

CeibaAWSSREChaos EngineeringReliabilityIAMFinOps
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Moving Ceiba to AWS: A Small Deployment on a Real Budget

Ceiba left the homelab for AWS. Notes on the architecture, the $34-a-month budget that shaped every decision, a CI/CD migration that turned out not to be flaky after all, and what I'd already do differently.

CeibaAWSTerraformPlatform EngineeringInfrastructureCI/CDSecurityCost OptimizationFinOps
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Running Ceiba on a Single Node First: Platform Boundaries Before Scale

How I’m using a single-node platform to test Ceiba as a real workload, validating runtime, data, backups, and scaling boundaries before moving toward multi-node or cloud infrastructure.

CeibaPlatform EngineeringHomelabInfrastructureNode.jsKubernetesReliabilityAPI ProductizationScalingOperations
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Designing Failure Domains on a Single Node: Boot, Platform, Data, Backup Tiers

How I designed storage and operational boundaries on a single-node homelab to reduce blast radius, improve recoverability, and build platform discipline before workloads.

InfrastructureHomelabPlatform EngineeringReliabilityStorageLinuxFailure DomainsOperations