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Self-Hosting n8n – Your Automation Sidekick (with a Dash of AI)

Self-Hosting n8n – Your Automation Sidekick (with a Dash of AI)

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to fully self-host the n8n automation platform — from buying a domain and renting a VPS, to deploying it with Docker. Whether you're building workflows, scraping data, or experimenting with AI agents, n8n is flexible, extendable, and best of all

Azure Load Balancing Solutions - Lab 1 Azure Load Balancer

Azure Load Balancing Solutions - Lab 1 Azure Load Balancer

Learn about Azure Load Balancer with follow along lab.

Writing is hard, but you should try it anyway.

Writing is hard, but you should try it anyway.

It is! Allow me a second to lament that my last entry on this blog was written on January 26th last year. Well, what can you do? Why is writing generally a good idea, even if it's just a blog post with a limited audience? I wondered that

DNS - Resource records, DNS tools, DNSSec (Part 2)

DNS - Resource records, DNS tools, DNSSec (Part 2)

In the last article, I said that the DNS zone is defined for each domain and that it’s a file that consists of Resource Records. When the DNS resolver forwards the domain name to the DNS server, it gets the resource records that match that domain from it. DNS

How to self-host Bitwarden password manager

password manager

How to self-host Bitwarden password manager

Using a password manager is a good security practice, of which I will not be talking much nor convince you to use one. Since you are reading this article, chances are you are already using one or want to try it out. However, with the recent LastPass hack [https://techcrunch.

DNS - structure, organization and how it works (Part 1)

DNS - structure, organization and how it works (Part 1)

DNS - Domain Name System, is maybe the easiest protocol to grasp. At least, to grasp what its fundamental purpose is, and that is to translate or map human readable - symbolic names (such as bojana.dev) to IP addresses (such as 157.90.124.251). It is also possible

Async programming (with C#)

Async programming (with C#)

In the world of programming you noticed that term “async programming” is very frequent, and most often then not someone will ask you (or tell you) to do that particular task in “asynchronous way”. But what that even means? Before mentioning any concrete programming language (like C# or JavaScript), let’

Reverse proxy explained (with nginx)

Reverse proxy explained (with nginx)

If you work as a developer or in any other IT related field, you've probably come across the term "reverse proxy". From my experience people are more often than not confused by the term. So what is a reverse proxy? Maybe it's better to

Docker networks

Docker networks

During the installation, Docker creates three different networking options. You can list them with docker network ls: bojana@linux:~$ docker network ls NETWORK ID NAME DRIVER SCOPE 0c872e6d6453 bridge bridge local 10826dd62a8b host host local cab99af2344e none null local By default, bridge mode is selected, and containers reside on a

Docker - up and running

Docker - up and running

* Installing Docker * Docker – open source container engine * Basic architecture * Basic Docker commands Installing Docker (Linux, Windows, Mac) I will not go into much details about how to install docker environment on your desired OS. There are a lot of quality articles out there that will help you with that. Official

How to deploy database to Azure using Azure DevOps

How to deploy database to Azure using Azure DevOps

Before starting of, I must say there is a lot of ways to do this, depending on the situation and particular context you are in, but here I will be talking about how to deploy database which you have ready in an sql project within solution in Visual Studio. So

Private Github with gogs and raspberry pi

Private Github with gogs and raspberry pi

If you are by any means involved in any part of the software development process, chances are you have heard or used (or both) git, and for sure – github. Github is great, you can create free account in no time, and be ready for pushing changes down your repos. There