Making my homelab Kubernetes rack-aware
2026-05-18
So I can take a whole rackmount offline for maintenance, any afternoon, without downtime.
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Postmortem: 14 hours of PostgreSQL disk-full
2026-04-22
A logging table with no retention took production down for half a day. Here's the cascade.
Zero-downtime deploys with blue-green on Kubernetes
2026-03-24
RollingUpdate is fine until you want to test before you switch.
Laravel Horizon and the maxProcesses trap
2026-03-23
Switching from raw queue workers to Horizon, and the memory bill that followed.
From MariaDB Galera to CloudNativePG
2026-03-22
Why I migrated my HA database from a Galera cluster to Postgres.
My First Cluster
2025-02-17
My adventures with a home streaming server and Kubernetes