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Notes from the quiet parts.
Occasional posts on reliability, observability, and platform engineering. Available as RSS.
The Backup Was From November
A Proxmox node lost a disk, my Home Assistant backup was six months old, and the thing that saved me wasn't a backup at all. It was where Zigbee and Z-Wave keep their state. Plus the qdevice and 3-2-1 setup that means next time won't be November.
iSCSI on Talos: Why the Obvious Path Doesn't Work
Getting iSCSI volumes working on Talos Linux — and why the in-tree volume plugin leads you somewhere painful before the CSI driver shows you the exit.
The Five-Second Ghosts
A diagnostic narrative — paired 500s during our Envoy Gateway rollout, and why AWS NLB client IP preservation breaks pod-to-pod traffic on the same EKS node.
Why I'm Starting This Blog
A short note on what to expect here — SRE, infrastructure, and platform engineering, with an emphasis on practical tradeoffs.