Offsiting DNS for Fun and Profit
Further to my last post where I went away for a few weeks, that away-time featured a power cut at home. Things....did not come back cleanly, and required intervention to come back -- not least of which was DNS. Because of course.
My setup had been running DNS locally for …
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October 20 2023

A lot has happened over the last few months, so rather than a big catch-all post, I'm going to do a few posts over the next few weeks.
The last week or so have been my first 'in the office', so to speak, since March. As is patently obvious to …
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6 Reasons You Don't Need an SRE Team
The last several years have seen a huge upsurge in the popularity of the DevOps/SRE/Production Engineering model, with companies large and small adopting some of the practices and mindsets. One of the principal lessons many of these organisations (hopefully) learned was that it's close to impossible to adopt …
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June 19 2023

My last few weeks have ended up with me having about 30% of my regular day-job meeting/stuff-I-gotta-do load; due to a perfect storm of school stuff and other adventures (I'm currently collecting driving license categories! Trailer learner permit coming and sitting some theory tests for Truck license).
Other adventures …
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June 08 2023
I've mostly ported my homelab across, and took the opportunity to add actual monitoring and actual resiliency. I'll do a post on the janky setup.
I've also (thanks to some kind mastodaoine) gotten set up with restic to some remote storage. I'm glad software like this is still being made …
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