Sudeep Dhakal — IT ConsultantSudeep Dhakal is an IT consultant in Kathmandu working across infrastructure, automation and applied AI. He builds practical systems for small teams and publishes what he learns.https://sudeepd.com.npen-gb© 2026 Sudeep DhakalWed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTRunbooks nobody follows are just documentshttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/runbooks-nobody-followshttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/runbooks-nobody-followsWhy my first six runbooks failed, and the rewrite that cut incident resolution time roughly in half.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLesson learnedincidentrunbooksdocumentationprocesshello@sudeepd.com.npUpgrading a decade-old PHP app without stopping the businesshttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/legacy-php-migrationhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/legacy-php-migrationA phased migration that kept the site up every weekend, what the strangler-fig pattern actually looks like in practice, and the two things that nearly went wrong.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow-tomigrationphpstrangler-figlegacyarchitecturehello@sudeepd.com.npA six-month look at which AI tooling actually survived daily usehttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/ai-tooling-six-months-retrospectivehttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/ai-tooling-six-months-retrospectiveSix months of client work, tracking which tools stuck and which quietly stopped being opened. Includes the boring ones that won.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI guideaitoolingclaudereviewworkflowhello@sudeepd.com.npI got paged for a DNS outage that was a laptop on hotel wifihttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/dns-outage-local-resolverhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/dns-outage-local-resolverA short post about the incident that taught me to check the physical layer first, and the monitoring rule I added afterwards.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTLesson learnedincidentdnsmonitoringnetworkinghello@sudeepd.com.npBackups: the checks that matter are the ones nobody runshttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/backup-restore-drillhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/backup-restore-drillA restoration drill is the only backup that has ever saved anyone. How to run one in an afternoon, and the three failures it will find.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow-tobackupsinfrastructuredisaster-recoverylinuxhello@sudeepd.com.npWhat "give the AI our invoices" actually means, technicallyhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/ai-invoice-extraction-architecturehttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/ai-invoice-extraction-architectureA concrete architecture for document extraction that a small Nepali services business can run on a budget, including the parts that go wrong.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI guideaillmextractionclaudecosthello@sudeepd.com.npDeploying a Cloudflare Worker for a Nepali SaaS, and what surprised mehttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/cloudflare-workers-nepal-latencyhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/cloudflare-workers-nepal-latencyLatency numbers, D1 versus Postgres from Kathmandu, and the three assumptions that turned out to be wrong when I moved a client onto Cloudflare Workers.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow-tocloudflareworkersd1performancenepalhello@sudeepd.com.npThe 40-minute Friday report nobody wanted to ownhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/friday-report-automationhttps://sudeepd.com.np/writing/friday-report-automationA finance team was losing four hours every Friday to a manual export. Here is exactly how we cut it to four minutes, and the part that mattered more than the automation.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCase studyautomationpythonsqlitereportinghello@sudeepd.com.np