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Systems architecture, edge computing, hairbrained ideas, and technical leadership.

Engineering notes, post-mortems, and architectural blueprints focusing on bounded latency, distributed resilience, and pragmatic developer tooling. Embrasing AI and it's impact on our economy and psyche.

Distributed Systems

Edge Computing, Resilience, Scale

8 Articles

De-Clouding to the Edge: Architectural Migration from Vercel/Neon to Cloudflare Workers & D1

How we decommissioned our centralized US-East Postgres cluster and Node.js serverless tier, eradicated $4,200/mo in transit egress, suppressed p99 tail latency from 340ms to 18ms, and replicated SQLite primitives across 310+ edge locations.

#Cloudflare#D1

High-Availability DNS Sync & UniFi Policy-Based WireGuard Routing

Eliminating single points of failure in edge homelab architecture with automated adguardhome-sync replication and selective egress steering across multi-tunnel WireGuard interfaces on UniFi Gateway Max.

#UniFi#Networking

Engineering Execution

Leadership, Culture, Process

5 Articles

Hardening the Homelab: Enterprise UniFi Topology, Encrypted DNS & Policy Routing

A pragmatic systems blueprint for segmenting IoT, DMZ, and secure clusters with strict egress ACLs, mutual TLS inter-service routing, and automated WAN failover.

#Infra#Homelab

Tooling & Runtime

Cloudflare Workers, Edge, Performance

3 Articles