infrastructure

  • Blogs and NUCs and Caching, Oh My!

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    A year ago, I migrated my site to a self-hosted NUC cluster, defying industry skepticism about home hosting. Using a WordPress stack with Varnish and Cloudflare, I optimized performance and security, achieving over 30% traffic caching.

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  • When is a Deployment “Good Enough?”

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    Balancing speed and quality is crucial for software delivery. While rapid development can lead to fragile systems, overengineering may allow competitors to succeed. I’ve used containerization and Kubernetes for years, and I’m building a new tool to simplify both for all engineers.

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  • GitOps and DIY Infrastructure: A Match Made in DevOps Heaven

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    GitOps represents a transformative approach to managing and deploying applications by merging version control with DevOps. It automates changes, enhances security, and offers a single source of truth, especially beneficial for DIY infrastructure. GitOps practitioners can achieve self-healing infrastructure and improved management through infrastructure as code while overcoming learning curves.

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  • Consistent Infrastructure

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    I first learned to code using GUI-based tools on Windows. This included tools like TortoiseSVN for version control and WAMP to run a local an Apache/MySQL/PHP stack. It was a great introduction to programming, but didn’t prepare me for the real world. Why? Because production wasn’t Windows. It was terminal-only Ubuntu. That meant I was

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