# health check (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover health check. Page: Feed: --- ## [Hidden Costs of LiteLLM's Health Checks](https://akrisanov.com/hidden-costs-of-litellm-health-checks/) _2026-08-15 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-08-15 We run LiteLLM as an internal gateway in front of two kinds of models: local vLLM deployments and paid external models. At the time of the incident, the proxy was running LiteLLM 1.82.x with four replicas, Redis for shared state, and background model health checks enabled. The relevant part of the configuration looked like this: g eneral\_settings : b ackground\_health\_checks :… ## [Building Web2Onion-dev/beta: Treating Onion Mirrors as Deployments](https://brokenbotnet.com/2026/08/10/web2onion/) _2026-08-09 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ Serving a static site through Tor is the easy part. Keeping its onion mirror synchronized, verifiable, recoverable, and under operator control is the problem Web2Onion-dev/beta is meant to solve. ## [Security and Vulnerability Disclosure](https://brokenbotnet.com/security/) _2026-08-01 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ Contact # Report suspected vulnerabilities privately by emailing r3bo0tbx1@brokenbotnet.com . Do not open a public issue or pull request for a vulnerability. Sensitive reports should be encrypted with the published OpenPGP key . Fingerprint: 3372 7F53 77D2 96C3 20AF 704A B3BD 6196 E1CF BFB4 Key ID: B3BD6196E1CFBFB4 Please include: A clear description of the issue and its security impact. The… ## [About](https://akrisanov.com/about/) _2026-08-01 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2024-01-01 Updated: 2026-08-01 Hi, I'm Andrey I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Severstal, focused on LLM inference platforms, AI infrastructure, and distributed systems. I am responsible for the architecture and technical development of DaVinci, a shared GenAI platform that supports enterprise AI products and coding agents. Its inference foundation currently runs self-hosted,… ## [How to Plan LLM Inference Capacity for a Shared Platform](https://akrisanov.com/planning-llm-inference-capacity/) _2026-07-29 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-07-29 A recurring capacity-planning request for an internal LLM platform is: We have selected a model. Do we have enough capacity, and how many GPUs would we need for N users? The question is missing the information needed to answer it. The model and its serving configuration determine the minimum resources required to start one replica. They don't tell us how many requests that… ## [Kubernetes Model Serving in 2026: What Changed Since 2024](https://akrisanov.com/kubernetes-model-serving-in-2026/) _2026-07-26 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-07-26 In October 2024, Yuan Tang published AI/ML Innovation in the Kubernetes Ecosystem . The article described three important developments: Kubeflow Model Registry, KServe ModelCars, and TrustyAI. It also pointed toward multi-node serving, inference-aware gateways, speculative decoding, low-rank adaptation (LoRA) adapters, and APIs designed for generative AI. Since then,… ## [What Operating Tor Across Fifteen Locations Taught Me](https://brokenbotnet.com/2026/07/17/non-eu-relays/) _2026-07-16 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ A larger relay fleet does not only multiply bandwidth. It multiplies providers, failure modes, upgrade paths, and the responsibility to keep every identity and configuration correct. ## [Dropping Support for macOS 10.13](https://2manyrobots.com/4045-2/) _2026-06-23 · 2MR2 · 2ManyRobots_ As we have aggressively started working on Yate v10.0 we ve come to the conclusion that we have to drop support for macOS 10.13. Largely this is due to all the reasons that that next release will drop support for 10.10 through 10.12. We have to move to new SDKs and there are so many deprecations \[ \] ## [Monitoring vLLM in Production: Metrics, PromQL, Alerts, and Runbooks](https://akrisanov.com/vllm-metrics/) _2026-06-18 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-01-28 Updated: 2026-06-18 Version scope: This guide targets vLLM 0.23.x and its default V1 engine. Metric names and semantics change between releases, so verify the /metrics output of the exact version and serving configuration you run before copying queries or alerts into production. A vLLM server can pass Kubernetes health checks while users experience slow or unstable responses.… ## [Why Relay Diversity Matters More Than Raw Node Count](https://brokenbotnet.com/2026/05/22/diversity-first/) _2026-05-21 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ Twenty relays that share one failure domain do not provide the same resilience as a smaller fleet distributed across genuinely independent networks and platforms. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ho1YZJuV2Hha) _2026-05-21 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [My Modern C++ Setup on macOS and Apple Silicon](https://akrisanov.com/macos-apple-silicon-cpp-setup/) _2026-05-19 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-05-19 I’m starting to learn modern C++, so I wanted a repeatable development setup on Apple Silicon: use a modern LLVM/Clang toolchain build projects with CMake and Ninja get proper language-server support in VS Code and Helix use sanitizers and static analysis from the beginning keep the setup practical This cheatsheet assumes that Homebrew is already installed. ## [Dropping Support for macOS 10.10 – 10.12](https://2manyrobots.com/dropping-support-for-macos-10-10-10-12/) _2026-05-09 · 2MR2 · 2ManyRobots_ It is with great regret that we re announcing the dropping of support for macOS 10.10 10.12. Yate v9.2.x will be the last release for the old mac version. The last time any of these OS versions received security updates was 2017. It is becoming increasingly difficult to get around the seemingly innumerable build issues; \[ \] ## [I've Been Busy Updating My Pluralsight Courses](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2026/05/07/pluralsight-course-updates/) _2026-05-07 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ For the past few months, I’ve been a quiet but busy beaver updating my Pluralsight Courses to .NET 10. If you’re not familiar with my courses, here are the ones that are already updated: Building a Web App with ASP.NET Core 10, MVC, Entity Framework, TailwindCSS, and Vue : When you’re ready to become a web developer, it can be hard to know where to start. In this course, you will go from your… ## [Running Kubernetes with a GPU Inside WSL2 on My RTX Laptop](https://akrisanov.com/wsl-nvidia-gpu/) _2026-04-22 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-04-22 I wanted a local environment where I could: run Kubernetes schedule GPU workloads experiment with CUDA / inference / device plugins avoid renting cloud GPUs I used a Lenovo Legion laptop with an RTX GPU. The working stack was: Windows 11 + NVIDIA driver (WSL-enabled) WSL2 (Ubuntu 24.04) K3s (containerd) NVIDIA Container Toolkit NVIDIA device plugin The non-obvious part was… ## [How to run multiple Claude Code or Codex agents in parallel against a single codebase](https://www.patrickdap.com/post/how-to-run-multiple-agents/) _2026-04-13 · Patrick D'appollonio_ With all of the agents working against the same codebase helps you get stuff done in parallel: maximum throughput! There are many new tools in the AI ecosystem that leverage AI to write and generate applications and projects at a very rapid pace. Until a few months ago, my trusty VSCode was where I spent most of my time writing code, but over time I slowly became more of a code reviewer for my AI… ## [How Intelligent is AI?](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2026/04/12/ai-is-it-that-intelligent/) _2026-04-12 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ It’s been almost three years exactly since I recorded my “On Losing Our Jobs to AI” video on YouTube. I have had time to use the tooling and talk to a lot of people about the effect on our industry. This is a follow up. In my career, there have been two types of developer: those who crave to understand how everything works; and those who don’t mind just following a pattern or code they found to… ## [Operating Tor Relays on Linux, BSD, and SunOS](https://brokenbotnet.com/2026/04/07/linux-bsd-sunos/) _2026-04-06 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ The torrc language travels well. Service managers, privilege models, paths, packaging, firewalls, and recovery procedures do not. ## [Helix for Python Development](https://akrisanov.com/helix-python/) _2026-03-29 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-03-29 I use Visual Studio Code for work and personal projects. It has been my main editor for years, across several languages and ecosystems. Since I started using coding agents and chat-based interfaces, I've also wanted a more focused environment without the panels, notifications, and status updates. This is especially useful when I'm reading a book and reimplementing its… ## [Moving From MyFamily to Happy Families](https://brokenbotnet.com/2026/03/02/happy-families/) _2026-03-01 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ MyFamily made every relay repeat the same growing fingerprint list. Happy Families replaces that bookkeeping with a shared cryptographic family identity. ## [Building Safer Container Health Checks for Tor Relays](https://brokenbotnet.com/2026/01/31/health-checks/) _2026-01-30 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ A green container is not the same as a healthy relay. Useful health checks stay narrow, publish evidence, and leave recovery policy to the system responsible for acting. ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/axCfG9IN1YsV) _2026-01-30 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Why vLLM Scales: Paging the KV-Cache for Faster LLM Inference](https://akrisanov.com/vllm/) _2026-01-27 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2026-01-27 vLLM is an LLM inference engine designed to improve GPU utilization. Its key mechanism is PagedAttention , which manages the KV-cache without the memory waste common in traditional LLM serving stacks. More efficient memory use supports larger batches and steadier latency under load. KV-cache fragmentation In traditional LLM serving systems, the KV-cache (the keys and values… ## [A Year in Review](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2026/01/01/a-year-in-review/) _2026-01-01 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ It’s been a long, long year. So much has changed and so much has stayed the same. If you’re like me, you likely stayed up late to watch 2025 die a happy death. But, in the world of technology and software — there was lots to talk about too. From my perspective, I have some opinions about what the last year brought us. Let’s talk a look: Front-end Web Development We began 2025 with four… ## [The Responsibilities of Running a Tor Exit](https://brokenbotnet.com/2025/12/15/running-tor-exit/) _2025-12-14 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ An Exit contributes uniquely valuable capacity, but it also becomes the address destinations see. Running one requires transparency, provider support, deliberate policy, and an abuse process. ## [Almost the End of the Year Ramblings](https://2manyrobots.com/almost-the-end-of-the-year-ramblings/) _2025-12-02 · 2MR2 · 2ManyRobots_ It s Giving Tuesday in Canada again and once again the 2ManyRobots bank account has been drained. (Actually more than drained as the gross is used to determine the donation amount). I still personally hate Tahoe. While Apple has made some moves on the UI, I still find that the almost complete lack of contrast is \[ \] ## [Returning the Favor: Building the Tor Relay Stack I Always Wanted](https://brokenbotnet.com/2025/11/01/tor-relays-project/) _2025-10-31 · Home on Br🤖ken B🤖tnet_ Tor once connected me when ordinary access could not. Years later, I built tor-guard-relay to return that favor with bridges, public relays, and transparent infrastructure. ## [A Small Update](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/10/27/a-small-update/) _2025-10-27 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ It's been a long year. In January, my wife and I moved to The Hague in the Netherlands. My goal was to get settled and be back at producing content pretty quickly. But It's been tough to get back on schedule. I think I underestimated the culture shock and integration that would take so much of my time. Learning a new language, getting setup to work legally, finding a social circle with my limited… ## [uv: Managing Python Versions, Dependencies, Tools, and Scripts](https://akrisanov.com/uv/) _2025-09-10 · Andrey Krisanov · Andrey Krisanov_ Published: 2025-09-10 uv provides a Cargo-like, cross-platform workflow for managing Python projects , command-line tools , single-file scripts , and Python versions . Installation & Updates # Install curl - LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # Update uv self update Managing Python Versions uv can manage Python versions instead of pyenv, mise, asdf, or OS-specific installation methods: #… ## [Pondering About Using AI for Coding](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/07/01/pondering-about-using-ai-for-coding/) _2025-07-01 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ In the start of my career, the most valuable tool I had was a text editor. I used the amazing QEdit (later called SemWare Editor) that I wrote code from 1985 till I moved to Windows development in the 1990s. This editor influenced the rest of my career. I expected every editor after qedit to be instantly responsive and defer to my typing instead of helping me along. This meant, I have always been… ## [Pragmatic Architecture for .NET Core Workshop on June 16th in The Hague](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/05/07/pragmatic-architecture-den-haag/) _2025-05-07 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ Are you in Europe like me? Do you want me to be a better architect? I might be able to help! I’m holding my Pragmatic Architecture for .NET Core in-person for the first time. If you can get to Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands on June 16th, you can join me for a one-day event exploring the kinds of architectural decisions that make for great applications. In this course, I’m covering: Learning the… ## [Health Checks in nginx](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/05/04/healthchecks-in-nginx/) _2025-05-04 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ As some of you know, I create YouTube videos called Coding Shorts . Ironically, they are not YouTube shorts (they predate them), but are 10-ish minute videos on topics I like. I’ve been doing a number of these on Aspire, but I’ve been stuck on my “Aspire Deployment” video for a while now. One of the things I missed was that we need health checks on most of different elements of the app. Most… ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EZ5f9DdLUtri) _2025-05-03 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [DevNetNoord Talks](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/04/13/devnetnoord-talks/) _2025-04-13 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ Earlier this week, I travelled to Groningen, NL to participate in DevNetNoord. Little did I know I was the only English speaker, but it did get me a chance to practice my four sentences of Dutch that I’ve learned. I did a talk that is close to my heart: Nullable Reference Types: It’s Actually About Non-Nullable Reference Types In this talk, I show how Nullable Reference Types work and why I think… ## [Build or Adopt: Stop Building Your Own Plumbing](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/03/17/build-or-adopt--stop-building-your-own-plumbing/) _2025-03-17 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ Once upon a time, I worked with Chris Sells and the software arm of DevelopMentor (trip down memory lane, huh). We built a developer tool and it was my first experience working on a product where developers were our primary customer. It left me with a bad taste in my mouth. It was a great experience working with titan’s of our industry. Without a doubt, one of my best professional experience. This… ## [What's Up with Tech's Job Crunch?](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/02/09/job-crunch/) _2025-02-09 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ In the past couple of years, I’ve been looking at my career and my impending future. As many of you might know, I was contemplating moving from independent to employee. I’ve been independent since about 2007 (and this is my 40th year in software). It was a big question I had to ask for myself. It was a matter of trading flexibility for security and healthcare. But that is just the background. I… ## [How We're Doing It - New Dutch Lives](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/01/29/how-were-doing-it/) _2025-01-29 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ We’re three weeks into our new lives in The Netherlands. So much is happening, it’s been an anxiety laden experience. We’ve started Dutch lessons (Dank u wel), planned for our furniture to arrive, and started the emigration process. So far, so good. As I’ve been talking about this adventure a lot, I want to apologize if you want me to get back to technical content — it’s coming, I promise. We’ve… ## [I'm Back to Work!](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2025/01/10/im-back/) _2025-01-10 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ It’s been a wild couple of months for the Wildermuth family! In the space of just a couple of months, we’ve relocated to The Hague in the Netherlands. It’s been a scant 36 hours since we arrived, and there is so much to do. Now that we’re getting settled, I can get back to work teaching and creating content! Coming up (hopefully next week), I’ll be resuming my weekly Coding Shorts YouTube videos .… ## [How to make your GitHub profile dynamic](https://www.patrickdap.com/post/make-github-profile-dynamic/) _2024-12-13 · Patrick D'appollonio_ Optimizing the information you show in your GitHub profile with dynamic PRs and blog content Recently I was toying with the somewhat new GitHub feature that allows you to create a repository with the same name as your GitHub username and host in it a README.md file that then is displayed in your profile and visible to whoever visits your profile page. While this feature is good, it's not too… ## [Audio FIle Health Check v1.8 Released](https://2manyrobots.com/audio-file-health-check-v1-8-released/) _2024-12-04 · 2MR2 · 2ManyRobots_ AFHC v1.8 was released today. Misplaced STREAMINFO blocks in FLAC files are no longer considered a fatal error as Yate v7.0.0.2 can repair them. The Repair Files from Audio File Health Check Log action was also updated. If you do not have auto action updates enabled, do a Yate\>Check for Action Updates. ## [Another Year of Donations](https://2manyrobots.com/another-year-of-donations/) _2024-12-03 · 2MR2 · 2ManyRobots_ It s Giving Tuesday in Canada which is the best day of the year to do charitable donations. It s the day when many corporations double, triple or even 5x donations. Once again we ve donated 100% of the gross of payments for Yate. Thanks to all of our users who continue to make this possible. ## [Netherlands Here We Come](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2024/11/27/netherlands-here-we-come/) _2024-11-27 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ Back in 1993, I moved to Amsterdam with a guitar and $70. Not my brightest move. I spent much of the next two years playing music on the street (e.g. Busking) in and out of Amsterdam. It was an amazing part of my life. I don't regret a minute of it. Since the day I came back from Amsterdam to be ‘an adult’, I’ve held a torch for the Dutch and the Netherlands. Any conference anywhere near northern… ## [How to use Lando for local development with Laravel](https://danda.at/blog/how-to-use-lando-for-local-development-with-laravel) _2024-11-14 · Alfred Danda · danda.at_ One of the common problems when working on web apps is that you need to have a local environment that is as close as possible to the production environment. If you are working in a team it is important that you can share the local environment one way or the other too. In this post I show you how you can solve this problem by using Lando, a local development environment. ## [How to get rid of slow health checks on lando start](https://danda.at/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-slow-health-checks-on-lando-start) _2024-11-14 · Alfred Danda · danda.at_ Since version 3.14 Lando introduced a new health check scanner when starting a project. In this post I show you how you can configure the new scanner and get rid of slow health checks on lando start. ## [Travelling through time in Laravel tests](https://danda.at/blog/travelling-through-time-in-laravel-tests) _2024-11-14 · Alfred Danda · danda.at_ Laravel makes it easy to handle time-sensitive tests with its travel helper, a feature that allows you to simulate time shifts with a single line of code. In this guide, we'll walk through testing a login rate limiter, ensuring users are properly blocked after multiple failed attempts. Instead of relying on slow, manual pauses, this approach keeps your test suite fast. ## [My Recent Talk at the Atlanta .NET Users' Group about Aspire](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2024/11/13/dotnet-atlanta-aspire/) _2024-11-13 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ I’ve been remiss. I recently gave a talk at the Atlanta .NET Users’ Group and promised to post the source code. About time I got to this ;) I gave a talk on how to use Aspire in .NET 8/9. We walked through how to add Aspire to an existing project and make use of this new technology. If you have/had questions, please don’t hesitate to comment below! Here are the slides and code: Code Slides The… ## [Yate v7.0](https://2manyrobots.com/yate-v7-0/) _2024-10-01 · 2MR2 · 2ManyRobots_ Yate v7.0 has been released. We hope that you enjoy the changes and new features. Unfortunately, the production of v7.0 was not without major issues. Xcode v16.0 which runs on Sonoma breaks all applications which use the QuickLook preview system when the application is loaded on a prior OS. The application crashes immediately as an \[ \] ## [My Recent Talks](https://blog.wildermuth.com/2024/09/26/my-recent-talks/) _2024-09-26 · Shawn Wildermuth's Blog_ I just finished giving my two talks at TechBash in Pennsylvania. Great to visit the Poconos this time of year. I also attended and spoke at the Atlanta Developers Conference last Saturday. Great audiences and great questions. I wanted to share some of the examples and slides from these talks: @ AtlDevCon: Aspire to Connect - A talk where I showed the attendees how to add Aspire to an existing app… ## [Using MailHog with Lando](https://danda.at/blog/using-mailhog-with-lando) _2024-09-19 · Alfred Danda · danda.at_ MailHog and Lando are both very useful open source tools for local web development. In this post, I'll show you how to bring them together for a better experience when working with mail in local development.