Migrating my infrastructure from my phone

More than the cool factor of “built X by the pool”, what I’m trying to demonstrate is really how capable current models are, and how that is transforming our role as engineers.

I was able to do a migration I’ve been procrastinating about (and paying premium for) for almost a year.

Migrated 13 services across 7 apps, including:

• 3 DNS zones (without interruptions)
• gofwd.to (backend, postgres + clickhouse)
• newsletter
• capsule.one from aws cloudfront -> cloudflare
• umami metrics -> migrated to rybbit

Migrated from docker compose files to Nomad, implemented periodic backup jobs to R2 for all databases with retention rules built in.

And finally, built a workstation where I’m building these side projects from in a VM, all configured with code and reproducible.

This would’ve taken me ages on the computer 1 year ago, let alone on my phone.

Back from holidays. Now my infra is revamped and I can stop procrastinating.

Now time to build for others

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