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Platform Engineering for Solo Builders: How I Built an IDP for a One-Person SaaS
You don't need a 200-person engineering org to benefit from an internal developer platform. Here's how I set up Port.io, Terraform, SonarCloud, and Jira for Herp Ops, a SaaS I build alone.
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You don't need a 200-person engineering org to benefit from an internal developer platform. Here's how I set up Port.io, Terraform, SonarCloud, and Jira for Herp Ops, a SaaS I build alone.
Collect, store, and query Kubernetes logs using Loki with MinIO object storage and Grafana.
How to set up free, reliable alerting for your homelab using Prometheus Alertmanager and Discord webhooks.
A practical, beginner-friendly observability setup for a two-host Proxmox homelab: Prometheus + Grafana in Kubernetes, scraping Proxmox hosts and Pi-hole.
How to deploy Pi-hole for network-wide DNS, use it for homelab wildcard domains, and configure UniFi as a backup DNS.
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