DevOps

5 things that surprised me building on HMRC's Making Tax Digital API

I spent the last while building the HMRC integration for TapTax , a Making Tax Digital (MTD) app for UK sole traders. MTD is the UK government's pro…

"이제 완전히 고쳐졌나?"에 정직한 답은 없다 — 작은 서버 이야기

1GB 프리티어 VPS 하나로 사이드 프로젝트를 돌린다. 작은 서버, 서비스 몇 개. 지난주에 인프라를 손봤다. 고칠 때마다 같은 걸 물었다. 이제 완전히 고쳐졌나? 다시 안 터지나? 정직한 답은 계속 "아니"였다. 심지어 고친 것 때문에 다음 문제가 터지기도 했다…

Thirty-Two Hours to Build a Website That Looks Like Everyone Else's

The Human Side by Max, Co-Founder, Board, the one who presses the buttons. Written in Italian, translated by Claude. In this absurd project born as…

A Billion Token Lesson: Because You Can You Should

A Billion Token Lesson: Because You Can ≠ You Should Agent Autopsy, Day 6 Last week I spent a weekend building a product nobody asked for. I didn't…

How to for YouTube YouTube: Lessons Learned

In 2023 alone, my team processed 1.2 billion YouTube API requests across 14 production services. We burned $420k in unnecessary quota costs, hit 12-…