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JakeMcIlravey.a.k.a. JakeyPrime

Jake McIlravey, a.k.a. JakeyPrime, is a sysadmin and devops engineer from Crystal Beach, Ontario. He's been running servers since he was fourteen, ran his first production fleet at sixteen, and has since built and operated platforms that have served hundreds of millions of users.

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12+

years

100M+

users served

850

servers peak

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AppleCare Team Lead

Deployment Director & Lead DevOps Engineer

Let's Talk Campaign

// and dozens of Fortune 500 clients through Team Hydra

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Projects running right now

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activesince 2017

Zira

Reaction-role infrastructure for Discord, scaling to hundreds of millions of users.

TypeScriptNode.jsMariaDBRedis

Hep.gg

Developer tools for the modern developer, and a link shortener that actually survives a hug of death.

Next.jsSelf-hosted S3MariaDBRedis

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From the log

2026-04-14
Welcome to the terminal
A quick note on why this blog exists, what you can expect, and how to drop a new post into it.
2 min read

~/ brief history

From Minecraft hosting to Fortune 500

A decade of building, operating, and handing things off. 4 companies, one still actively launching, one non-profit teaching the basics for free.

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