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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
Why FreeBSD instead of Linux for home servers? Exploring ZFS, jails, stability, and the reasons behind choosing FreeBSD for a home infrastructure.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless
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2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems
Tariffs have been affecting numerous industries—including ours. This post explains the tariff impact on Puget Systems' pricing and our strategic approach.
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Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions
When your CI pipelines are slow, you can only optimize so much. Bottlenecks in CPU, Network, Memory, and Disk I/O can all contribute to slow CI pipelines. Let's take a look at how disk I/O can be a bottleneck in GitHub Actions.
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Take this on-call rotation and shove it
At some companies, it is expected that certain engineers will serve as part of a formal on-call rotation. On paper, this seems like a reasonable way to ensure the reliability of the product. In practice, it is a miserable burden and you probably won't even get paid for it.
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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our departure date for the final leg of our cloud…
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Dagger: A shell for the container age
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform to Learn Docker and Kubernetes
The iximiuz Labs origin story: five years of technical blogging followed by six months of active development resulted in an online learning-by-doing platform for DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineers.
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Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?
I wanted to know what third-party code I was using in my GitHub Actions. I was able to use standard text processing tools and shell pipelines to get a quick tally.
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If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd
Finally, Podman has a Docker Compose alternative
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Understanding Solar Energy
The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.
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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
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Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google
Read how Google is using System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to analyze pure software systems and discover risks.
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Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB
We are happy to announce a new preview feature that adds support for Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling DuckDB users to connect to Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with ease.
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The real failure rate of EBS
Our experience running AWS EBS at scale for critical workloads
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Moving away from US cloud services
Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.
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Build a Container Image from Scratch
Build a Container Image from Scratch — Danish Prakash
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But how to get to that European cloud?
The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally buy as yet unproven cloud services, even when adorned with a…
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Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
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uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
uv download statistics overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
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Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS, which is being sunsetted on 28 January 2025.
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Breaking Up with On-Call
This article is about why on-call in it's current state in big-tech is flawed, or how to properly develop software.
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Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
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Making Postgres scale
A war story of manually sharding Postgres across 6 databases under load, and the case for automating the process with a proxy instead of weeks of engineering effort.
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Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
This post describes how we successfully migrated our serverless offering from AWS US-East to OVHCloud North America, reducing our monthly spend from...
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Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets
Binary Security found the undocumented APIs for Azure API Connections. In this post we examine the inner workings of the Connections allowing us to escalate privileges and read secrets in backend resources for services ranging from Key Vaults, Storage Blobs, Defender ATP, to Enterprise Jira and SalesForce servers.
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Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours
Update, 2025-04-16: I wrote a follow-up post after about a month of usage, and you can read that here. Given some recent, uh, instability in US politics, and given that everyone likes an underdog, I’ve been looking at European alternatives to my current hosting situation, which is Cloudflare. After looking through…