Sep 10, 2026 | Agents & AI, Infrastructure, Self-hosting
An AI coding agent can read a public page with curl. It cannot read a client portal, check whether a deploy actually renders, or pull a number off a dashboard that has no API. Those all need the same thing: a browser that is already signed in. So I built a pool of...
Sep 9, 2026 | Infrastructure, Reliability
I run a five-node Proxmox cluster with hyperconverged Ceph and a three-node Kubernetes control plane on top of it. It has been up for over a year. Nothing crashes, deployments roll, pods schedule. It was just slow, in a way I could never quite point at. A kubectl...
Aug 23, 2026 | Agents & AI, Infrastructure
I run a small fleet of self-hosted AI agents — they live in Slack, one per job, all of them on a homelab Kubernetes cluster spread across a few Proxmox servers. Their local brain is a pair of Tesla T40s: 24 GB datacenter GPUs, one in each of two physical servers,...
May 4, 2026 | Infrastructure, Networking
Most networks are utilities. A few are tools. The difference is whether you can feel the friction every time information passes through. You spend eight hours a day inside your network. More, if you work with cloud services, remote collaborators, streaming media, or...
Mar 1, 2026 | Client work, Infrastructure
At a cloud-native software company I was the sole platform engineer for a microservice estate spread across four cloud projects. Fifteen services, fifteen separate deployment pipelines, each grown independently and each slightly different from the others. A full...
Jul 13, 2025 | Client work, Infrastructure
Executive Summary Faced with 10‑year‑old Ivy Bridge servers, fragmented GPUs, and mounting energy bills, the lab launched a six‑month modernization from January to June 2025. The goals were to: Cut idle power and HVAC costs Consolidate scattered compute and GPU...