Web Engineering •
Vercel Deployment Retention Policy: What Oct 23 Deletes
Set your Vercel deployment retention policy before October 23 deletes old builds. The 30-day change, $0.10/GB-month math, and what rollback loses.
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Web Engineering •
How to Reduce S3 Storage Costs: 3 Levers That Still Work
How to reduce S3 storage costs when S3 Standard has stayed $0.023/GB-month since 2016: storage-class tiering, free-egress R2, and Glacier's deletion-fee traps.
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LLM Engineering •
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: When a 4B Model Beats GPT-5.6
Reinforcement fine-tuning let a 4B open model match GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval at 100x lower cost. How RFT works, and when it beats prompting a frontier LLM.
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Web Engineering •
Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: $166/yr Beats a $200K Cluster
Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: a live SaaS runs for $166/year with zero crashes in 10 years, while the average Kubernetes cluster wastes 87% of its CPU.
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