Antoine's blog

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#infrastructure

Should you switch to GCP's C4A CPUs? And charts from our AlloyDB migration

October 01, 2025
TLDR: C4A CPUs are a significant and free improvement for AlloyDB that is well worth enabling. In this article, I share some graphs from our migration.

Self-hosting the Anki sync server with Tailscale

September 24, 2025
A guide on how to self-host the Anki sync server and on using Tailscale to secure this setup.

Setting up a free private Docker registry for deploying with Kamal

November 25, 2024
Using Cloudflare's R2 and Workers to set up a Docker registry in a few minutes to use with Kamal. This approach has the advantage of being low maintenance and within a free quota.

First rule of server security: Zero access

November 05, 2024
Most horror stories I read about unauthorized server access could have been prevented if the server had been locked down. Here's how to do it in a few minutes.