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Technical articles written while building — deployments, architecture trade-offs, and the failures worth writing down.

• Cloud Infra2026-08-048 min read

  Deploying FastAPI to Azure Container Apps with scale-to-zero

  How Med-Core's FastAPI API ships to Azure Container Apps: a Terraform module with min-replicas zero, KEDA-driven scale-up, and the cold-start budget that makes scale-to-zero the default deployment posture.

  • fastapi
  • azure-container-apps
  • terraform
  • scale-to-zero
  • postgresql
• Engineering2026-07-216 min read

  Why your content pipeline should validate at build time

  Frontmatter validation at build time catches authoring errors before they reach production — here is the pattern and its guarantees.

  • ssg
  • nextjs