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  • AWS, Cloud Architecture

Data Pipeline for Processing CSV Files Using S3, Lambda, Glue, and QuickSight

Project Overview ☁️ This project builds a serverless data pipeline on AWS to ingest, clean, transform, and visualize CSV files. When a CSV file is uploaded to the raw data bucket csv-raw-data, an AWS Lambda function is invoked to perform…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • December 29, 2025
  • AWS, Cloud Architecture

AWS Serverless Event Management System

This project is a simple way to manage events that is built entirely on serverless architecture. People can sign up for an email list, see upcoming events, and admins can add new events using a simple form (password: 12345). The…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • December 12, 2025
  • Bash Script, Cloud Architecture, Linux Security

Detecting SSH Brute-Force Attempts with a Minimal Bash Script

I wrote this small Bash script that takes raw logs and generates a clean sorted report of who is hammering your SSH port and how often. This is the kind of small operational tool every Cloud or DevOps engineer should…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • December 9, 2025
  • Cloud Architecture

Servers Under Pressure: Realistic Load-Testing Three Hetzner VPS

When evaluating the real performance of a server deployment on Hetzner VPS, intuition is not enough. You need data. You need to simulate real traffic patterns and understand how your infrastructure behaves under pressure. For this reason, I used Locust…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • November 21, 2025
  • Cloud Architecture, AWS, Python

Deploying a Lightweight Face Analytics Tool on AWS with boto3 and Rekognition

In this project, we’re building a small face-analysis tool using Amazon Rekognition. The workflow is simple. You upload an image to an S3 bucket, the script reads the file name, sends it to Rekognition through boto3, and retrieves the details…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • November 14, 2025
  • Docker, Cloud Architecture

From Bare Metal to a 5-Microservice App with Docker Swarm

We will show you how to turn the 5 microservices demo into a production-ready setup. You will learn the role of each service, frontend, queue, worker, database, and results. You will deploy and harden the system on a multi-node Docker…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • November 12, 2025
  • Docker, Cloud Security

Reducing Docker Image Size by 95% with Multi-Stage Builds

Introduction You’ve worked hard on your React app, and now it’s time to put it in a Docker container. You run docker init, build your image, and then push it to a registry. But then you see something that worries…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • November 5, 2025
  • Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security

A Practical Guide to Secure Web Infrastructure on Hetzner Cloud

This project provides a complete guide to setting up a secure and scalable web application infrastructure on Hetzner Cloud. It explains how to configure a private network, a bastion host that functions as both a NAT gateway and a jump…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • November 1, 2025
  • Bash Script, Linux

Secure and Automated Backups with Borg and Rclone

Having a robust backups strategy in place is not a luxury, it’s a must. because this I wrote this post to explain how to implement a professional, automated, backup for a WordPress site using Borg for fast, deduplicated, local backups…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • October 21, 2025
  • Linux

Run Multiple Sites on a Single Server: A Step-by-Step LAMP Multi-Tenant Setup

This is an in-depth guide to setting up a multi-tenant LAMP stack. The tutorial applies to AlmaLinux 10, but it also points out any differences you might see on Debian-based systems like Ubuntu. We will set up the Apache web…

  • Ali Alrahbe
  • October 15, 2025
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