My Old 10Gbps Tiny Cluster
My Old 10Gbps Tiny Cluster: Engineering High-Performance Homelabs on a Budget Introduction In the world of DevOps and infrastructure engineering, we’re constantly balancing performance requiremen...
Usman Masood Ashraf
The Final Piece To My Homelab Has Arrived
The Final Piece To My Homelab Has Arrived Introduction The quest for the perfect homelab setup is a never-ending journey for infrastructure engineers. When Reddit user u/throwaway_homelab_2024 po...
My First Completely Useless Home Lab
My First Completely Useless Home Lab Introduction Every DevOps engineer and system administrator has dreamed of building the perfect homelab - until reality hits. That initial excitement of acqui...
Saved This S10 From The Trash Now It Runs A 247 Minecraft Server
Saved This S10 From The Trash Now It Runs A 24/7 Minecraft Server 1. Introduction When a Samsung Galaxy S10 with a dead display landed in my hands, I faced a DevOps engineer’s dilemma: discard fu...
Immich Needs Our Help
Immich Needs Our Help: Building the Future of Self-Hosted Photo Management Introduction In the evolving landscape of self-hosted photo management, Immich has emerged as a leading open-source alte...
Rolling Out A New Home Datacenter
Rolling Out A New Home Datacenter Introduction The modern home datacenter represents the ultimate proving ground for infrastructure engineers. When a Reddit user recently shared specs for their 1...
Hdd Running Hot Backups Kept Failing You May Not Like It But This Is What Peak Homelab Engineering Looks Like
Hdd Running Hot Backups Kept Failing You May Not Like It But This Is What Peak Homelab Engineering Looks Like Introduction When your homelab’s hard drives start hitting 60°C during backups and yo...
My Api Gateway Runs On A Raspberry Pi 4 In My Closet And Handles 2 Million Requests Per Month
My API Gateway Runs On A Raspberry Pi 4 In My Closet And Handles 2 Million Requests Per Month 1. Introduction In an era where “cloud-first” has become dogma, a Raspberry Pi 4 humming quietly in a...
Google Wanted 299Month For Photos I Said No And Spent 130 On A Baby Homelab Instead
Google Wanted $2.99/Month For Photos I Said No And Spent $130 On A Baby Homelab Instead Introduction The $2.99/month Google Photos storage tax seems trivial - until you multiply it across decades...
When Did We As A Profession Loose Our Backbone
When Did We As A Profession Lose Our Backbone? Introduction The modern infrastructure landscape tells a troubling story: A Reddit sysadmin’s frustrated post about macOS integration in a Windows d...