A personal recap of things I explored, learned, or questioned in tech this week.
🔧 What I Worked On
- Meld
- I implemented a Meld infra using docker compose
- Build reference-auth and reference-api and uploaded to docker.io registry
- Redeploy Chronosup
- I was able to redeploy it from my homeserver using Dokploy
🌐 Homelab Updates
- Update Docmost 0.24.1 → 0.25.3
- Update Gitlab v18.7.0 → v18.9.1
- Update Omada Controller 6.0.0.25 → 6.1.0.19
📚 What I Learned
- The subtle differences of API Gateway, Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy
- VPC peering on AWS
🧠 Things That Surprised Me
- % symbol must be escaped on url connections
- I had an issue configuring an app on Dokploy and the nextjs app was throwing an URI parsing error. After a long time (many hours) debugging an trying different solutions (I thought it was a build issue) I found out that the problem was the the redis password had a %. So I need to replace it to %25
📹 Youtube Videos I watched
💬 Final Thoughts
- Dokploy is amazing
- I have a ton of good features without the complexity and cost of k8s + Cloud
- It is perfect for my small projects
- It is easy and natural to escalate to k8s if I need in some point in the future
- I decided be part of Kubernetes community and hopefully became a reviewer for some code
