How I Built a Self-Healing Database on a 10-Year-Old Laptop
Muhammad Kamran Kabeer
How I Built a Self-Healing Database on a 10-Year-Old Laptop (Using Docker + Ansible) A practical experiment in resilience engineering on aging hardware—with modern DevOps tools. 🚀 Introduction Running production-grade systems on old hardware sounds like a bad idea… until you treat it as a lab. I set out to build a self-healing database system on a 10-year-old laptop —but this time with a more modern approach: 8 GB RAM SSD (thankfully!) Docker for isolation Ansible for automation The goal wasn’t