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My VPS hit 65% disk usage two weeks after moving to Tencent. The culprit wasn’t my app — it was 16+GB of dangling Docker images and build caches left behind by a dev-focused CI pipeline.

I pruned the images, cleared the cache, and got 16.8GB back in 30 seconds. But the real fix was structural: I made the heavy dashboard service optional via Docker Compose profiles. The API — which embeds everything it needs at build time — stays lean and always reachable. The dashboard is now one command away when I actually need it.

Optionality in a development environment isn’t just about resources. It’s about questioning the default — is every service running because it must, or because you never decided it didn’t have to?

#API #Docker #DevOps #9router #DeveloperTools

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Full story on Medium → https://viumeda.medium.com/when-the-dashboard-became-optional

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