Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Go, Rust, CI/CD, networking, and security—field notes and write-ups.https://hermesrodriguez.com/https://medium.com/@hejeroaz/gghstats-selfhosted-manifests-that-feel-like-production-a87ac50d75cahttps://medium.com/@hejeroaz/gghstats-selfhosted-manifests-that-feel-like-production-a87ac50d75caWhere the runbooks live: Docker Compose (minimal, Traefik, observability), Helm, and plain Kubernetes YAML — separate from the app repo so you can pin images, keep secrets out of git, and diff infrastructure changes cleanly.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMThttps://dev.to/hrodrig/gghstats-selfhosted-production-shaped-manifests-for-gghstats-56j9https://dev.to/hrodrig/gghstats-selfhosted-production-shaped-manifests-for-gghstats-56j9You already read gghstats: Keep GitHub traffic past 14 days — gghstats is the small Go service that...Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:43:55 GMThttps://hermesrodriguez.com/blog/when-the-sha256-tag-is-not-your-container-image/https://hermesrodriguez.com/blog/when-the-sha256-tag-is-not-your-container-image/Registry UIs love showing digest-looking tags. Sometimes they refer to supply-chain artifacts, not the runnable image you meant.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://medium.com/@hejeroaz/the-14-day-cliff-why-i-self-host-github-traffic-065e75c33cd4https://medium.com/@hejeroaz/the-14-day-cliff-why-i-self-host-github-traffic-065e75c33cd4GitHub's Traffic tab is great for recent activity, but not for long-term trends. This post explains why I built gghstats to keep history beyond the 14-day window.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://dev.to/hrodrig/gghstats-keep-github-traffic-past-14-days-3ckghttps://dev.to/hrodrig/gghstats-keep-github-traffic-past-14-days-3ckgWe've all been there. You ship an open-source project, a tiny CLI, or a docs site. You watch Insights...Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:41:28 GMThttps://dev.to/hrodrig/pgwd-in-production-from-alerts-to-runbook-2k42https://dev.to/hrodrig/pgwd-in-production-from-alerts-to-runbook-2k42This is a production-focused follow-up to my original post: pgwd: A Watchdog for Your PostgreSQL...Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:16:50 GMThttps://dev.to/hrodrig/pgwd-a-watchdog-for-your-postgresql-connections-1pjghttps://dev.to/hrodrig/pgwd-a-watchdog-for-your-postgresql-connections-1pjgStop guessing when your database is about to run out of connections. You’ve seen it...Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:37:45 GMT