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case study Apr 9, 2026

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Cutting BigQuery cost on a Firebase stack without slowing the product down

A practical FinOps case study on reducing BigQuery scan cost by moving the right reads off Firestore exports, simplifying joins, and debouncing search-heavy paths.

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tutorial Mar 16, 2026

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Idempotent VPS hardening with Ansible

A practical, reusable baseline to provision and harden Linux VPS instances with Ansible, then keep them updated automatically.

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