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Tech posts about systems, infrastructure, and whatever I'm tinkering on.

Building, breaking, and occasionally fixing things in my homelab. 🧑‍💻 More>

Shleemypants gets a pager: reactive Suricata triage in the homelab

{homelab} {devops} :: #opnsense #suricata #monit #security #llm

Putting my homelab SRE agent on call: a Suricata alert on the router wakes it, and it investigates on its own.

AI SRE: giving my homelab an SRE with an attitude problem

{homelab} {devops} :: #proxmox #opentofu #iac #gitlab #mcp #llm

Building an autonomous, guardrailed SRE agent for my homelab: a disposable cloud-init VM, Hermes/MCP tooling, Proxmox and GitLab token privilege separation, and the CI/CD pipeline that ships it.

Database internals (part 1): notes on storage engines and PostgreSQL

{software architecture} :: #postgresql

A deep dive into database storage fundamentals and PostgreSQL internals: from LSM-trees and B-trees to heap pages, buffer manager, query processing etc.

One-click homelab: integrating Gitlab, Proxmox and K8s with GitOps Principles

{homelab} {devops} :: #proxmox #kubernetes #gitlab #iac #kubespray #fluxcd #longhorn

A comprehensive guide to setting up a homelab using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with Gitlab, Proxmox, and Kubernetes for seamless one-click deployments.

InfluxDB Alerting in an Event-Driven Architecture: Walkthrough and considerations

{observability} {software architecture} :: #influx #kafka #benthos #debezium

A walkthrough on integrating InfluxDB alerting with an event-driven architecture using Debezium, Kafka, and Benthos.