Technical writings on site reliability engineering, devops, and system design.
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The Raspberry Pi Model 4 has been almost impossible to obtain for the past few years, thanks to the pandemic and the resulting silicon shortage—exacerbated by the crypto bubble. This has left many us...
Read more → Artificial intelligence has been a major theme in software development for several years now, with tools such as GitHub Copilot helping developers wri...
Read more →Using Cloudflare Edge Protection  Overview This tutorial walks through setting up Cloudflare on a K3s cluster: 1. P...
Read more →Tracking Internet Service Provider Performance  Why? Before 2020, homeworking was a luxury afforded to few. Even w...
Read more →Longhorn AWS S3 Backup Setup Longhorn can use block storage provided by AWS S3. For an explanation of block storage, see [IBM's overview](https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/cloud/learn/block-storage). Whi...
Read more →What is a Persistent Volume? A Persistent Volume (PV) is a piece of storage in the cluster that has been provisioned statically or dynamically using [Storage Classes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/c...
Read more →Preparing the Raspberry Pis Installing Raspberry Pi OS 1. Download the Raspberry Pi Imager tool — [video tutorial](https://youtu.be/ntaXWS8Lk34) 2. Visit https://www.raspberrypi.com/software...
Read more →Creating a Home Kubernetes Service  History In 2021/2022, I made the transition from running Pi-hole on a single Raspberry Pi 4 Model B—a setup that ser...
Read more →How Upgrading Windows Can Lead to Data Loss Recently, I had the bright idea of updating my Windows 11 install to 22H2 via an ISO installation. This caused me a whole world of pain. For those who...
Read more →AWS Sustainability  In October 2022, AWS released a new sustainability pillar for the Well-Architected Framework, adding to the existing pillars. As with ot...
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