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The corporate zoo is safe, but real value is created in the wild. I am Giovanni—Senior Staff Engineer, Solo-Dev, and Mentor. I can ship your product for you, or teach you to ship it yourself.

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I don't just teach theory; I live it. My 'office' is a van, and my cloud is self-hosted. Everything I write is tested in the real world, under real constraints.

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Self-host K3s on Hetzner Cloud with Terraform: Under $25/month Production Kubernetes

Managed services are a crutch. Spin up a production cluster on raw compute with Terraform, understand the architecture, and take full control of your stack.

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