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Building a Job Board API, Part 1: The FoundationOctober 29, 2026 — Why I am building a “boring” app on purpose In this series, I want to share one of… job-board-api · 1/1 16 min Part 13 – Kubernetes Autoscaling in Action: A FastAPI Microservice That Scales ItselfJune 25, 2026 — Overview Part 12 deployed a real application with real complexity – Django, Postgres, a Jenkins pipeline, eleven bugs.… home-lab · 13/13 6 min Part 12 – Building a Django REST API on Kubernetes (And the 11 Bugs That Tried to Stop Me)June 24, 2026 — Overview Parts 1 through 11 built the infrastructure. K3s cluster, Longhorn storage, monitoring, GitOps, DNS, CI/CD foundations. All… home-lab · 12/13 9 min Part 11 – 15 Real Errors I Hit Building This Home LabJune 23, 2026 — Overview This is the most honest article in the series. Every tutorial makes things look easy. You follow… home-lab · 11/13 7 min Part 10 – Homepage and Container RegistryJune 22, 2026 — Overview In Part 9 we solved the DNS problem. Every device on the home network can now resolve… home-lab · 10/13 6 min Part 09 – DNS and Networking: CoreDNS, Route 53 and NGINX IngressJune 21, 2026 — Overview In Part 8 we completed the GitOps stack. But all those services are useless if you cannot… home-lab · 9/13 6 min Part 08 – GitOps with ArgoCD, Vault and External SecretsJune 20, 2026 — Overview In Part 7 we built the CI/CD pipeline. Jenkins builds images and pushes them to the local… home-lab · 8/13 6 min Part 07 – CI/CD Pipeline: Jenkins, Registry and JenkinsfileJune 19, 2026 — Overview In Part 6 we got full observability across the cluster. In this article I build the CI/CD… home-lab · 7/13 7 min Part 06 – Monitoring Stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail and JaegerJune 18, 2026 — Overview In Part 5 we added persistent storage with Longhorn. Now the cluster can run stateful applications without… home-lab · 6/13 7 min Part 05 – Longhorn: Distributed Storage Across Two NodesJune 17, 2026 — Overview In Part 4 we got a fully operational two-node K3s cluster. But there is a critical problem.… home-lab · 5/13 6 min