Kalin Dimitrov·22h agoResizing a managed Postgres database while writing to itDigitalOcean’s documentation for resizing a managed database says the cluster goes into a “Resizing” state for a few minutes and that it…
Kalin Dimitrov·Nov 1A note in the logs for the modelAn afternoon log: planting instructions in fake server logs to see which models follow them, on DigitalOcean’s InferenceA response icon1A response icon1
Kalin Dimitrov·Oct 30Asking eight models about 200 footballersA morning log: checking what language models remember against a football quiz database, on DigitalOcean’s Inference
Theo Varn·Oct 26Pick Digital Ocean or Linode by workload, not by brandDigital Ocean and Linode both charge $24 a month for the same four gigabytes.
Kalin Dimitrov·Oct 26Watching serverless containers come and go for a morningA log of cold starts on DigitalOcean Functions, and what really decided whether a function stayed warm
Kalin Dimitrov·Oct 21Moving a small AI tool from my laptop to DigitalOceanA morning log: the same open model on Ollama, then on DigitalOcean’s Inference, and what changed
Kalin Dimitrov·Oct 14What happens to an open connection when you fork an agentLast week I forked a running agent session on DigitalOcean Managed Agents and wrote up what the copies still shared: the same hostname, the…
Theo Varn·Oct 13The Cheapest Cloud Server Is Not Always the Cheapest DecisionA $4 cloud server can still be an expensive decision when nobody owns the patching, backups, or incident work.
Rivendeploy·Oct 11Riven vs DigitalOcean App Platform: Hosting an App in IndiaMost of our comparisons come down to one thing: the other platform doesn’t have a region in India. DigitalOcean is different. It has a…
Kalin Dimitrov·Oct 11Changing one field in a 100KB document, in Postgres and in MongoDBThe usual argument for keeping documents in Postgres is that jsonb gives you most of MongoDB without running a second database. I mostly…
