Introduction: When “Fast Enough” Simply Isn’t Running a Proxmox homelab alongside production Node.js services has taught me that performance problems rarely announce themselves — they
Category: Observability & Performance
Metrics, logging, tracing, alerting and the craft of finding and fixing performance bottlenecks.
Introduction Running a Node.js API under real load — whether it’s an Express service behind an Nginx reverse proxy or a Next.js app being hammered
Introduction Running a Node.js API in production — whether behind PM2 on a bare-metal Proxmox VM or inside a Docker container orchestrated with Compose —
Introduction When I first set up monitoring for my Node.js services running behind PM2, I thought checking whether the process was alive was enough. It