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Certifications, tools, cloud setups and everything I pick up along the way — documented as I go.
Latest posts
GCP ACE: Every Google Cloud Load Balancer, Explained
Application, proxy Network and passthrough Network load balancers in Google Cloud: how they differ, all 13 deployment modes, network tiers, client IP behavior, target pools, firewall ranges and how to pick the right one.
Read more →When your SSL certificate expires and you're the last to know
A quick lesson in why you need uptime monitoring before you need it — not after.
Read more →I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam
Two weeks of studying, a lot of practice exams, and one less thing on the list.
Read more →How I set up CloudWatch monitoring and alerts for my EC2 instance using SNS
A practical walkthrough of setting up CloudWatch alarms and SNS notifications to monitor an EC2 instance — so you know when your server goes down before your users do.
Read more →How I built an automated news section for my blog using Python and Claude API
I added a fully automated News section to my blog that pulls from 10+ RSS feeds, lets AI pick the most relevant story, writes the article, and publishes it twice a day — without me touching anything.
Read more →Automating blog deployment with GitHub Actions
Every time I published a post I had to SSH into the server, run hugo build, and hope nothing broke. Here’s how I automated that with GitHub Actions.
Read more →Hey, I'm
Luciano.
IT professional documenting the journey into cloud, automation and modern infrastructure — one certification, tool and project at a time.