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I run five side projects on one DigitalOcean Droplet for $24 a month. This stack handles 80k monthly visitors combined and has taught me more about infrastructure than years of managed platforms ever did.
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When a lean team needs real production visibility without buying an enterprise observability bundle. This stack covers uptime, application errors, product signals, deploy automation, and incident response.
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Code-level errors
Application exceptions still need code-level detail, and Sentry is where engineers usually fix them fastest.
Open tool profileProduct behavior
Pairs product behavior with operational signals so the team can see whether a bad deploy changed user actions.
Open tool profileDeploy automation
Deployment automation closes the loop between code changes and the incidents or improvements that follow.
Open tool profileRelease consistency
A consistent container image makes logs, deploys, and rollback behavior far easier to reason about.
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I run five side projects on one DigitalOcean Droplet for $24 a month. This stack handles 80k monthly visitors combined and has taught me more about infrastructure than years of managed platforms ever did.
Python backend for teams that want admin panel, ORM, migrations, and auth out of the box. Django's batteries-included approach means you're shipping product instead of assembling a framework from twelve separate packages.
I had five years of Django code and wanted a modern React frontend without a full rewrite. This hybrid keeps the Python backend that works and replaces the Jinja templates with something my team actually enjoys.
GitHub-native CI/CD: YAML workflows on GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runners, reusable workflows, OIDC to clouds, and per-minute billing for private repos beyond plan quotas.
Personal $0: Desktop, Engine, Hub (100 pulls/hr logged in), 1 private repo, 1 Scout-enabled repo; Pro ~$9/mo yearly (~$11 monthly) with unlimited Hub pulls; Team ~$15/mo yearly (~$16 mo); Business ~$24/user/mo with SSO and registry policies (docker.com/pricing).
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