Notes on delivery operations, AI in project management, and building things outside the day job.https://varunbiju.com/enhttps://varunbiju.com/blog/why-i-stopped-waiting-on-the-tech-lead-for-deployments/https://varunbiju.com/blog/why-i-stopped-waiting-on-the-tech-lead-for-deployments/Every dev deploy at our company went through one person checking servers by hand for free capacity. I found Coolify on a Reddit thread, standardized us on Docker Compose, and cut setup from a day and a half to about two hours. That was the first piece of taking over devops and deployment for the whole company. It now runs 200+ containers across 8+ servers, including my own.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTlabcoolifyself-hostingdockerdocker-composedevopspaasreverse-proxy