Luis Faria articles - 25 total
Production Observability for $0: How I Monitor My Portfolio with Sentry + Pulsetic
I got my first Sentry weekly report. 23 errors. 1.7k transactions. On a side project. That's what...
My portfolio fetches NASA's Daily Space Photo - and never fails!
I integrated NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (read about it) into my portfolio. SPOILER ALERT:...
From git pull to GitOps: How I Built a Production CI/CD Pipeline on a $12 DigitalOcean Droplet
From 15-minute manual deploys with downtime to 5-minute automated pipelines with 2-second container...
From Excel to Interactive Business Insights with Python & Streamlit
How I turned a multi-year building invoice ledger into an interactive analytics dashboard — and why...
Learning SQL Server the Hard Way: 16 Days of Real-World Database Work
From "I've never used SQL Server" to "Here's my 1,000-line operational runbook": How I turned a job...
myRoster: from copypaste to 2-minute submissions
From tedious spreadsheet rituals to 2-minute submissions: how I turned a workplace pain point into a...
I Built a Sales Visualizer for a Real Business Problem (Quantium Software Engineering Simulation)
End of the year and I thought it would be a great way to close out 2025 by putting myself through...
How I Tackled GenAI-Powered Data Analytics (And Unlocked a New Perspective on AI Strategy)
After completing the Commonwealth Bank Software Engineering Challenge and my AWS Solutions Architect...
Security Incident Report: Cryptominer Attack on Next.js Application
Introduction On December 7-8, 2025, my Next.js portfolio application luisfaria.dev running...
Building IRL: From a $50k AWS Horror Story to Human-Centered AI Governance
From runaway agents to responsible governance—how I turned academic research into a production-ready...
Building EigenAI: Teaching Math Foundations of AI Through Interactive Code
From determinants to hill climbing algorithms—how I turned academic math into an interactive learning...
Does NPS Really Predict Revenue in Healthcare Clinics? I Spent 12 Weeks Finding Out.
1. Why I Questioned NPS in Healthcare (The Origin Story) For 6+ years grinding in...
CuraNexus Analytics – Security in Architecture, not Afterthought
"Security bolted on after development is a band-aid. Security designed in from day one is the...
Build a Full-Stack QR Code Generator in MERN with GraphQL & MongoDB (No External API Needed!)
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to generate a QR code for a URL but...
Bread n’ Butter: Node.js, Express and Apollo
Moving on with the BNB: Bread n’ Butter 🍞🧈 series, it’s time to look at the other half of the MERN...
Bread n’ Butter: React and Next.js
I’m kicking off a new series I’m calling BNB: Bread n’ Butter 🍞🧈. Why? Because no matter how many...
From Groomzilla to Full-Stack Engineer: Building Wedstack
Have you ever imagined being a Software Engineer, Project Manager, Designer, Customer Support agent,...
Engineering Principles Applied to Daily Life: Concierge Edition
“What's easy to go through is hard to talk about, and what's hard to go through is easy to talk...
My Database Conundrum: MongoDB vs Supabase for a Pure Python App
Over the past few weeks, I've been developing TTrack - Torrens Degree Tracker, a PyQt5 desktop...
Scaling Fastier: My AWS Solutions Architect Journey with a Virtual Challenge
How I Designed a Scalable AWS Architecture for a Growing Startup (And Earned My Solutions...
How I Tackled the Commonwealth's Bank Software Engineering Challenge
While searching for the next task to tick off my daily diary, I stumbled across Forage’s CBA Software...
ClinicTrends AI - Transforming Customer Feedback Into Intelligent Insights
ClinicTrends AI – Transforming Customer Feedback Into Intelligent Insights As I transition...
How I Created a Daily Follow-Up System to Dominate My Master’s Degree Assignments
Balancing coursework, life, health, and long-term goals can feel like running a marathon with no...
How I Turned a 30-Minute Daily Task into a 5-Minute Automation (Saved 105 Hours a Year!)
From Excel Hell to Python Heaven Flow diagram 2021 x 2025: It was 2018. If you knew how...
From Google Sheets to a Scalable SaaS: Building Konquista with Python and Django 🚀
Imagine spending hours daily cleaning phone numbers and sending 1,000 WhatsApp messages by hand. That...