Cloud & Infrastructure
Technical articles, field notes, and systems troubleshooting filed under Cloud & Infrastructure.
V8 Isolates: How They Work, Who Runs Them, and How to Replace Docker on a Bare VPS
How V8 isolates work at the C++ heap and OS level, how Cloudflare, Deno, Supabase, and tgcloud run them, and how to replace 20 Docker containers on a bare Ubuntu VPS with a single workerd or edge-runtime daemon.
Deploying Astro and Embedded SQLite on tgcloud V8 Isolates
Implementation guide for deploying an Astro SPA and colocated embedded SQLite on Telegram's native serverless runtime.
Testing Telegram Native Serverless - Zero Webhooks and No Cron
Building on Telegram's native serverless runtime: zero webhooks, embedded SQLite, streaming Groq Whisper audio, and the lack of native cron.
Ubuntu Automation for WordPress
A pragmatic, zero-dependency Bash script that provisions a fully tuned LAMP stack and WordPress on WSL2/Ubuntu in 60 seconds.
The Real Economics of Edge Compute
Why developers hesitate to leave regional Docker containers for edge isolates, how Active CPU billing works, and an empirical economic comparison across Cloudflare, AWS, and Google.
Monetizing Cloudflare Worker APIs with Coinbase CDP x402
A practical engineering guide to monetizing Cloudflare Worker APIs and MCP tools on Base Mainnet using Coinbase CDP x402, Permit2 signatures, and dual-layer interception.