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Building a Multi-Region Container Pipeline with Alibaba Cloud ACR and ACK

10 May 2026- 11 mins read

If you run workloads in multiple Alibaba Cloud regions like me (and if you serve users in both Asia and Europe like I do), you’ve probably dealt with the pain of getting container images where they...

Serving European Traffic to China with Alibaba Cloud CDN and DCDN

07 May 2026- 12 mins read

This is the post I wish I had when I started routing traffic between Europe and China years ago. I’ve written about CEN and ICP before, and Xataka even published a piece about my experience with co...

Deploying Qwen 3 as a Private API on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute

02 May 2026- 11 mins read

After integrating Qwen 3.6 into Cursor through Model Studio, I started wondering: what if I needed a private, self-hosted Qwen endpoint? Not everyone wants to route inference through a shared API. ...

Running Qwen 3.6 in Cursor with Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

27 April 2026- 10 mins read

Around two years ago I wrote about testing Alibaba Cloud Model Studio when it first launched. Back then, the Qwen models were good but still felt like the underdogs compared to OpenAI and Anthropic...

Repo Dashboard - A Local GitHub Visibility Tool

23 December 2025- 6 mins read

When you’re working across multiple repositories in an organization, keeping track of what’s happening becomes surprisingly tedious. You end up with a dozen browser tabs open, constantly switching ...

S3 Git Server - Serverless Git Hosting on AWS

17 October 2025- 6 mins read

You are in the lookout for a free, serverless git server? Say no more! That’s exactly what S3 Git Server is, a fully managed Git hosting solution that runs entirely on AWS Lambda and S3.

Dockback - Reverse-Engineering Dockerfiles from Images

10 October 2025- 5 mins read

Ever found yourself staring at a Docker image in production and wondering, “How the heck did they build this thing?” Maybe you’re doing a security audit, debugging a performance issue, or just tryi...

Building the (maybe) First Public PQC Checker Tool

03 September 2025- 7 mins read

Hola! I’ve been working on something for a while now and I’m actually happy I’ve finally released it: a free, public tool to check if any domain supports Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). You can tr...