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Five Deployment Blockers, One Breakthrough: When to Check Memory Before Reaching for New Infrastructure

DEV Community·Jeremy Longshore·about 1 month ago
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The Problem I needed to share a dental-billing MCP architecture diagram with stakeholders. Not tomorrow. Now. It was a static HTML file — should be five minutes to get it online. Instead, I hit five sequential blockers. Each one seemed independent. Each one cost time. By the fifth, I was deep in DNS cache debugging, TTY/GPG authentication issues, and wondering if I should just build a new demo subdomain from scratch. The breakthrough? Stop building. The subdomain already existed. Memory had it configured. I just hadn't checked my own infrastructure before jumping to solutions. The Setup We'd scaffolded a private dental-billing-mcp-demo repo via /repo-dress , generated an architecture diagram as HTML, and now needed a public URL. The diagram itself was solid — nine issues in the rendering (orange line routing, mobile horizontal scroll, code blocks breaking), but that's content polish. First: get it live. Why Not GitHub Pages? Normal answer: static site + GitHub Pages + done.…

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