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Posts, field notes and technical ideas with commercial intent.

This is where I publish about DevOps, CTO work, SaaS, automation, bots, infra, AI, OpenClaw, MCP and real systems.

DevOps
systems, infra, delivery

architecture, execution and operational thinking.

SaaS
product and business

building products that can validate, sell and scale.

AI
agents and tooling

practical AI, automations and technical leverage.

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Data infrastructure supporting a business RAG system

Applied AI

RAG for business explained: what it is and when to use it

RAG connects a language model to controlled business documents so answers can use current evidence, permissions and citations.

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Server racks representing a distributed worker architecture

Mobile Automation

RabbitMQ for bot automation: a practical architecture

RabbitMQ coordinates automation reliably when messages are small, workers are idempotent and failures have bounded recovery paths.

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Scraping & Leads

Puppeteer for scraping: clean architecture for production

How to structure Puppeteer scrapers so they survive DOM changes, retries and production load.

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Infra & DevOps

Proxmox for automation: when it actually makes sense

Where Proxmox helps, where it does not, and how to keep automation infrastructure stable.

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CTO & Product

How to prioritize features when everything seems urgent

Prioritize features with a visible scoring model, small validation steps and explicit capacity for reliability work.

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Infra & DevOps

PM2 vs Supervisor vs systemd for Node.js and Laravel

How to choose the right process manager for Node.js and Laravel without creating restart and logging chaos.

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Mobile Automation

PM2, Supervisor or systemd: how to keep bots running in production

PM2, Supervisor and systemd can restart bot processes, but stability depends on lifecycle design, durable state and useful monitoring.

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Scraping & Leads

Playwright vs Puppeteer for modern web scraping

Playwright offers broader browser automation; Puppeteer remains a focused choice for Chrome-centric scraping. Architecture matters more than the library.

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Infra & DevOps

Nginx for Laravel: basic configuration and common mistakes

How to configure Nginx for Laravel without the rewrite, permission and deployment mistakes that keep repeating in production.

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CTO & Product

How to move from idea to MVP without burning €30,000

Turn an idea into a testable product by controlling scope, technical risk and operating cost before committing a large budget.

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Instagram and Proxies

How to monitor automated Instagram accounts with logs and alerts

Build privacy-aware monitoring that detects session, workload and integration failures before they affect every authorized account.

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technical notes

4G mobile proxies vs datacenter proxies

A practical comparison between 4G mobile proxies and datacenter proxies for automation, scraping, account operations and real-world technical systems.

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