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At the end of my most recent homelab tour , I pondered upgrading my home network capabilities past gigabit to improve throughput and take better advantage of hardware I already own. I laid out a few ideas in that post for avenues to take, but have since made the jump and wanted to outline my thought process for this upgrade. Why (Not) Upgrade? Prior to this upgrade, gigabit networking had been…
An important part of my design philosophy for software scalability is minimizing machine-to-machine differences wherever possible. This allows me to focus more on what I’m delivering rather than where , with any changes to common pieces benefitting all downstream machines. By worrying less about each machine being a unicorn, I have more mental bandwidth for the functional parts of the…
I recently wrote a tour of my homelab , where I discussed my current hardware and software choices. At the beginning of that post, I outlined some guiding principles for those choices, one of which was: Capture infrastructure as code wherever possible Almost all services in my homelab are configured using Docker Compose stacks, effectively capturing them as code in these docker-compose.yaml files…
For years, I’ve built and maintained a homelab to serve as a self-hosted infrastructure playground. In addition to running several critical services for my home network and smart home, it allows me to experiment with new technologies outside of work and keeps me motivated to learn new things. Goals To be perfectly clear, I’m not attempting to establish a grandiose set of axioms for my…
After sitting on my tech to-do list for many months, I finally made the time to redo my personal website, which is where you are now! While web development is not something I specialize in professionally, I do take pride in creating simple user experiences that are easy to navigate and always enjoy opportunities to play around with new technologies. Background This website is an important part of…