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About Doghouse Cafe

Doghouse Cafe is a community for real-world engineering: production failures, weird edge cases, debugging paths, partial answers, and the gap between “it should work” and what actually happens.

This is not polished thought leadership. It is a place for builders, operators, and contributors to share what they have actually seen, tried, broken, fixed, or still do not fully understand.

Guiding idea

If it should work… but doesn’t — it belongs here.

Who’s building it?

Matt McGowan

Matt McGowan

Co-Founder,
Infrastructure Lead

Matt is Co-Founder of Dog House Cafe, leading platform direction and technical strategy. With experience across infrastructure, reliability, and large-scale systems, he focuses on translating real-world operational lessons into practical insights for the community.

Dani Perteet

Dani Perteet

Co-Founder,
Head of Community & Growth

Dani is Co-Founder of Dog House Cafe, leading community growth and partnerships. With a background in hosting and operations, they bring a practical, systems-first perspective and focus on connecting builders who have worked through real-world infrastructure challenges.

Contributors

Internal & External Contributors

Doghouse Cafe grows through contributors—builders, operators, and debuggers who share real-world experiences, edge cases, and lessons learned in production. Some contribute regularly. Others drop in with a single insight. Both matter.

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