Writing about technical challenges, life lessons, and the things that keep me overthinking. Like a blog, but with a cooler name.
A unified benchmarking pipeline that deploys Online Boutique locally, on GCP, and on AWS, collects metrics, persists cloud history to BigQuery, and serves results in Grafana and a portable HTML dashboard.
A spec-driven blueprint for building infrastructure intelligence with LangGraph, Prometheus, and Claude Sonnet. Learn how seven markdown files become a working AI agent.
A complete walkthrough for setting up a Google Cloud account, configuring GitHub Actions OIDC auth, and running your first automated benchmark with SiliconBoutique.
In this vault I will be sharing how I developed albertoduran.com
A deep dive into architecting a multi-model equity valuation system in Python, covering DCF, P/E, and ROE models with clean layered design.
The story behind my website and what you can expect to find here.
How I built a modular price tracker that monitors hundreds of listings across Amazon, Mercado Libre, Liverpool, and Palacio de Hierro with async scraping, WebSockets, and Telegram alerts.
An introduction to Sin Pluma, its domain model, core user journeys, architectural goals, and what makes this SaaS writing platform worth studying as a real-world distributed system.
Even with a great Astro setup, performance depends on how assets, CSS, images, and markup are optimized during the build process.
A practical walkthrough of creating a reusable Astro parallax layout and combining it with a build-time generated animated SVG ribbon background.
A deep dive into how prefetching, ClientRouter transitions, and browser resource hints like preload and preconnect improve the speed and perceived performance of albertoduran.com.
An overview of the journal architecture built with Astro, MDX, and a custom manifest system.
A review of the CodeBlock component used in the journal. This article explains Shiki syntax highlighting, DaisyUI mockup styles, and the advantages of build time highlighting.
An inside look at the journal content system. This article explains how Astro collections and a custom manifest builder transform MDX files into a structured knowledge base.
Explores the MDX rendering pipeline used in the journal, including renderResult.Content, component overrides, and the Article layout system.
A look at the dynamic route that renders journal pages, builds navigation structures, and connects articles within vaults.
A detailed look at how Sin Pluma's React SPA is structured: Redux state, HOC-based auth guards, Axios interceptors, Slate.js rich text editor, and backend service integration patterns.
Authoritative source of truth for UI implementation of albertoduran.com
A detailed walkthrough of every service in the Sin Pluma system, how Docker networks isolate them, the data flows behind key operations, and the architectural strengths and constraints.
How Sin Pluma's Flask API is structured: the app factory pattern, blueprint organization, full endpoint inventory, Marshmallow validation, and integrations with MySQL, Redis, and MinIO.
How Sin Pluma bootstraps a three-node MySQL InnoDB Cluster, handles automatic failover, manages the schema, and what production hardening looks like beyond the demo environment.
A detailed walkthrough of Sin Pluma's JWT implementation: token structure, full lifecycle, the Redis blacklist, the Axios refresh queue, storage trade-offs, and security best practices.