
I Built Self-Healing Infrastructure That Spawns AI to Fix Itself
I Built Self-Healing Infrastructure That Spawns AI to Fix Itself I run 25 projects across 3 machines — 2 Linux servers and a Mac M3 — with 60 automated cron jobs. YouTube uploads, Twitter engagement, blog auto-publishing, a crypto trading bot, website monitoring, and more. All running 24/7. The problem? Things break at 2am and nobody's awake to fix them. The Watchdog I built a Python watchdog that runs every 6 hours and checks everything: Nginx : Curls all 11 websites, checks HTTP response codes YouTube pipeline : Did today's Short generate? Did the upload succeed? Twitter bot : Are tweets posting? Is the reply engine working? Docker containers : Any unhealthy or restarting? Disk space : Approaching capacity? Blog auto-publish : Did scheduled posts go out? Cron freshness : Are key log files being updated? Three-Layer Self-Healing Here's where it gets interesting. The system has three escalation levels: Level 1: Simple Auto-Fix Known issues get fixed automatically: Nginx down → systemct
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