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2026-09-22
Kamal — a command-line tool from 37signals (creators of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails) for deploying web applications in Docker containers on your own servers. It sits between platforms like Heroku or Vercel, where …
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pfSense — a firewall and router on FreeBSD, one of the oldest open projects in this area. It is developed by Netgate, and today it exists in two editions: the open pfSense CE (Community Edition) and the commercial …
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Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) — a virtualization platform installed on a server as a ready system and managed via a web interface. It is based on Debian, runs virtual machines on KVM and QEMU, and containers …
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When a critical service goes down, the technical failure is only half the problem. The other half unfolds among people, and usually costs more. Without decisions made in advance, the first thirty minutes look the same at …
Read more2026-09-19
Trying to make everything equally reliable is the quickest way to exhaust the budget without increasing reliability where it matters. When a team proposes moving the entire infrastructure to a cluster with automatic …
Read more2026-09-16
Conversations about fault tolerance usually dive into technical details within the first two minutes: replication, failover, timeouts, quorum. The executive is left to assess the proposal based on the speaker’s …
Read more2026-09-13
People rarely talk about excessive reliability: insufficient reliability announces itself with outages, while excess looks like a virtue. A company pays for complexity it doesn’t use, and calls it prudence. …
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To the question “Do we have backups?” a technical specialist almost always answers affirmatively, and answers honestly: there’s a job in the scheduler, files are being created, space is being used. The manager mentally …
Read more2026-09-07
In most companies the infrastructure diagram exists in two forms. The first is a pretty presentation: clusters, replicas, load balancers, arrows between them. The second is the real one — in a single engineer’s head — …
Read more2026-09-04
While infrastructure is working, it looks like an item in the expense report that you want to cut. Once it fails — the tone flips: engineers ask for a budget for “proper reliability”, the CFO looks at the estimate, and …
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