An LLM That Deploys Production Code, With Guardrails

What Lunchpad is a Python script that runs on a systemd timer and polls our Plane Postgres database every minute. It looks for deploy requests in task comments, works out which repository and branch they refer to, and performs the full sequence: fetch, merge, push, run the deploy script, and post the result back to the task. A comment like “deploy this to dev” on a Plane task is enough. The rest happens without anyone touching git. ...

August 23, 2026 · 10 min · 1994 words · Sagar Nayak

Deploying Sanchayam

Part of the Sanchayam series. Overview Sanchayam has two deployable components: Backend: Node.js process running as a systemd service behind nginx Frontend: Static React build deployed to S3, served via CloudFront Prerequisites A Linux server with Node.js 18+ and PostgreSQL An AWS account with an S3 bucket and CloudFront distribution for the frontend A domain with DNS pointing to your server (for TLS) A Twelve Data API key (free tier at twelvedata.com - 8 calls/minute) Backend Clone and install: ...

May 26, 2026 · 3 min · 511 words · Sagar Nayak

Deploying MediaBridge

Part of the MediaBridge series. Overview MediaBridge has two deployable components and two AWS-side components: Backend: Node.js process running as a systemd service behind nginx Frontend: Static React build deployed to S3, served via CloudFront Thumbnail Lambda: AWS Lambda handling S3 object events Archive restore pipeline: CloudTrail, EventBridge, and two Lambda functions Prerequisites A Linux server with Node.js 18+, PostgreSQL, and nginx An AWS account with at least one S3 bucket and IAM credentials for it A domain with DNS pointing to your server (for TLS) Backend Clone and install: ...

March 27, 2026 · 5 min · 954 words · Sagar Nayak