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Remember Tarus Balog, the AWS employee who rescued my deleted account when nobody else would? AWS just fired him. His proudest accomplishment in four years was saving my data. Leadership didn't care. The finale of a trilogy nobody asked for.
My home lab in a 12U rack as of March 2026. What is a Home Lab? Think of a home lab as a place where you can fail in the privacy of your own home. As
Earlier this year, a user at Practical ZFS asked a deceptively simple question: I have a Proxmox pool of three four-wide RAIDz1 vdevs. Whenever my VM is running, all twelve... Read More
Build a Container Image from Scratch — Danish Prakash
Before we get nerd sniped by the shiny engineering details, ask the only question that matters. Why compute in orbit? Why should a watt or a flop 250 miles up be more valuable than one on the surface? What advantage justifies moving something as mundane as matrix multiplication into LEO?
A rack-scale design that drives data center power efficiency.
As predicted by several people, one of my Marvell-based SFP+ modules had overheating problems. I've switched it over to a Broadcom-based one, and it looks better, though I can't be certain.
The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution that lets you run workloads at the tactical edge.
Healthchecks.io ping endpoints accept HTTP HEAD, GET, and POST request methods. When using HTTP POST, clients can include an arbitrary payload in the request body. Healthchecks.io stores the first 100kB of the request body. If the request body is tiny, Healthchecks.io stores it in the PostgreSQL database. Otherwise…
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
Secret Manager is a new GCP product that securely and conveniently stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
Massive reduction in memory usage, faster text encoding, improved Jest compatibility, file-system routing, automatic package installs, and a lot more
Maersk is the world’s largest integrated shipping and container logistics company.
Isovalent, the company behind Cilium, is announcing its $29M Series A financing round. Lets take a deeper look into where eBPF-based ...
A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.
By Connor Gilbert, product manager at StackRox Last month, the Kubernetes ecosystem was shaken by the discovery of the first major security flaw in Kubernetes, the world’s most popular container…
After 5 years in DevOps, I moved into Solutions Engineering. Here’s what I was missing, what changed, and who this path might be for.
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month.
How to install FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi, one step in building an Active Directory server with Samba and FreeBSD.
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
This is one of several papers I’ll be reading from 2023’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). If you’d like to receive regular updates as soon as they’re published, check out my newsletter or follow me on the site formerly known as Twitter . Enjoy!
In a strange coincidence, the authors of TinyPilot and Pi-KVM both emailed me within a week of each other and asked if I'd be interested in one of their KVM devices. Michael Lynch, founder of Tiny Pilot, said he'd used some of my Ansible work in building the TinyPilot update system, and Maxim Devaev, of Pi-KVM, liked…
A practical guide to building a SaaS product on a 100% European stack: hosting, payments, CDN, analytics, and transactional email.
