Suraj Kumar
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  1. The Right Way to Self-Host: Set It Up Once and Leave It Alone Debian, SSH hardening, Docker, and a firewall strategy that actually works — the setup you configure once and forget about.
  2. We Went All-In on Serverless. Here Is What It Actually Cost Us. The deployment story is as good as advertised. The lock-in, the bills, and the DynamoDB migrations are not.
  3. We Built an API with AWS Step Functions. Here's Why We Rewrote It. The promise of visual, self-documenting logic is real. The performance and operational reality is not.