homelab-journey
The Backup That Wasn't: Eight Days, Five Root Causes
A stale Grafana metric, eight days of silent failure, and five root causes that each made sense in isolation. How a backup stopped without anyone noticing.
Docker
Containerization basics, advanced Dockerfiles, and managing container lifecycles.
Lessons Learned
What I Learned Installing Umami: Database Decisions and Docker
Seven lessons from installing Umami analytics: database compatibility, EOL software risks, Docker isolation, and why documentation is as valuable as code.
Umami
Adding Analytics to My Blog: The Umami Journey
Privacy-friendly analytics without Google: how I deployed Umami with PostgreSQL in Docker after learning hard lessons about database compatibility.