Building a Personal NOC: I Needed to Know If Anyone Actually Uses My Shit
How I set up production-grade monitoring for my three side projects using Grafana Cloud's free tier.
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SRE/DevOps engineer building in the PNW. Writing about systems, side projects, and the occasional debugging adventure.
Ghost → Hugo: My EC2 Box Died and I'm Not Going Back
How my Ghost blog on EC2 became too broken to even SSH into, forcing me to migrate to Hugo via Apple Notes backups.
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BETA Part 1: Why I Built a Climbing Conditions Pipeline
I asked a question in an avalanche awareness class that wouldn't leave me alone: why doesn't something like NWAC forecasting exist for climbers?
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BETA Part 2: Wiring in a USGS River Gauge (and the Dead One I Almost Used)
The gauge looked alive on the map. Active status, perfect location, exactly what I needed. Except it stopped reporting data in 2019.
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BETA Part 3: Adding PurpleAir AQI (and the Wood Stove Surprise)
I added air quality data for wildfire smoke season. What I didn't expect was to immediately discover a wood stove problem in the Skykomish valley.
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Building a Production-Ready GitOps Platform on AWS EKS
I needed to prove I could work with Kubernetes on AWS. So I built a production-ready EKS cluster with ArgoCD, RDS, multi-AZ networking, and 8 debugging issues that taught me the most.
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How I Built a Production-Ready AWS Project to Reboot My DevOps Career
After a career gap, I needed more than an updated resume. I needed to prove I could still build production-grade infrastructure and solve real problems.
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How I Self-Hosted a Ghost Blog Using Docker, Traefik & AWS
Because why not make your blog about blogging also be your DevOps playground? Ghost + Docker + Traefik + AWS for the full infrastructure learning experience.
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Welcome to Views From the Treehouse 💚
Analysis paralysis almost stopped me from starting this blog. Then I decided to just do it for me. Random, eclectic, sometimes silly. All of me.
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