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Evolution of a Personal Website: From React Discord Card to Astro 5 Islands Architecture

An engineering retrospective on transforming a personal platform: journey from static HTML/CSS and React Discord Business Card to Astro 5 islands architecture, Tailwind v4, and Zero-JS by default.

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Engineering Case Study: Turning Raw College PDFs into a Full-Scale PWA Ecosystem with Forum & Push Notifications

In-depth architectural breakdown of the VKI NSU student platform: from reverse engineering and heuristic PDF extraction to a custom UI system, inverted indexes, and offline-first PWA.

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Deploying Multi-Server VPN Infrastructure with RemnaWave: 10 Nodes & Best Server Architecture

Complete engineering guide to building a fault-tolerant distributed VPN cluster on RemnaWave: master panel deployment, connecting 10 geo-nodes (VLESS REALITY & Hysteria 2), Linux kernel network tuning, and smart Best Server failover logic.

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Engineering Case Study: Scaling Discord Bot Ecosystem to Millions of Users & Thousands of Servers

Deep architectural analysis of Desires, Niako, Wind, and Rushia bots: overcoming Gateway Intents limits, Discord.js cache bloat, L1/L2 database caching, custom cluster sharding, and support SLA isolation.

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