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Isometric illustration of a web page preserved under a glass dome marked with a calendar, while a robotic arm on an edge network node slots fresh cards into its right-hand column; a distant origin server receives only faint trafficPerformance

A week of edge cache, a right column that is never stale: Cloudflare Snippets on le10sport

How le10sport caches article pages for 7 days at the edge while the right-hand column stays fresh, by filling it in with a Cloudflare Snippet: the mechanism, what it changes for origin traffic, performance and cost, and why we picked Snippets over Workers.

Paul-Émile Miny ·
Isometric illustration of one build machine turning code into container images, a passing test report and static assets at once, while three older build machines are wheeled away in the backgroundCI/CD

From 15 minutes to 3: one buildx bake job instead of Cloud Build

How le10sport replaced three Cloud Build submissions with a single GitLab CI job that runs the checks, builds the assets and pushes every image in one docker buildx bake, and how picking the right runner tag for each job made it faster and cheaper.

Paul-Émile Miny ·
Isometric editorial workflow: article cards from several source sites converge on a blue compass-like Polaris hub, where an editor routes them through a localization prism to destination websites.Editorial Platform

Polaris: one editorial pool for every market

How Polaris helps writers and editors discover, understand, localize, review, and deliver articles across Webedia brands—without replacing each website’s CMS.

Paul-Émile Miny ·
Isometric illustration: one glowing blue admin dashboard connected by identical cables and adapter rings to five very different database machines — a modern server, an aged terminal, a database cylinder, a jukebox, and an old industrial boiler.Architecture

One admin for all our brands: a research project

Every Webedia brand rebuilds the same back-office on a different database. Admin international is our research bet — today a working proof of concept: one shared, extensible admin any brand plugs into, no database migration required.

Paul-Émile Miny ·
Diagram comparing Cloud NAT (higher cost, higher latency) to a self-managed NAT gateway (high performance, full control, cost efficient, low latency), with call-outs showing 40% lower cost and latency dropping from 40s to 8s.Infrastructure

Cutting our NAT bill by 40% and our latency by 6×: from Cloud NAT to a self-managed gateway

How we reduced our NAT and firewall costs and improved performance by migrating from Cloud NAT to a self-managed gateway.

Matthieu Courtois ·
The GitLab logo above the words CI/CD on a blue backgroundCI/CD

The shared GitLab CI templates

A plain-language tour of the reusable GitLab CI/CD components in the transverse templates repo — what each one does, from GCP auth to deploy notifications and AI code review.

Sébastien Rommens ·
Isometric pipeline: a container of source files feeds a factory that builds and compresses a folder of static assets, then fans out to clouds and browsers.Infrastructure

How this blog ships: Astro + Tailwind + Bun, deployed to GitLab Pages

The exact build of the blog you are reading — why we picked Astro, how Tailwind styles it, how Bun builds a static site, and how GitLab CI publishes it to Pages. No Node, no nginx, no running server in prod.

Paul-Émile Miny ·

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