David Palacios
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4 articles tagged with "Ceiba"

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Platform Engineering

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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Platform Engineering

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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Platform Engineering

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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Product Engineering

From Production APIs to Productized APIs: Why I’m Building Ceiba

Notes on API access, product boundaries, and building a useful first version before chasing broader architecture.

CeibaAPI ProductizationAPI MonetizationAPI KeysNode.jsQuotasUsage TrackingAccess ControlDeveloper ExperienceSaaS