Hardware – Off-By-One

New Hardware, Who Dis?

After my last benchmarking post, I alluded to making some hardware upgrades. I completely shut down one of the older Dx0q nodes, but this still left me with one slower node and two quicker Wyse 5070 nodes. So I started watching eBay for models recommended on the ServeTheHome TinyMiniMicro and thin client forum threads, and…

Getting Ready for Travel

I’m headed to Kubecon NA next week, so I thought I might jot down a bit about the technology I tend to pack in my travel bag, since I’ve been optimizing it over the last few years. I haven’t travelled by plane for 18 months, but prior to COVID I was often travelling to the…

Justifying Hardware Upgrades with Benchmarking

In which Evan attempts to figure out just how slow his hardware is, and discovers an unexpected factor of two in performance.

A hardware view of this site

I’ll do a more comprehensive post later, but I wanted to make sure that media serving was working, and thought I’d share a “making of” picture of the hardware that powers this blog, even though it’s not cleaned up yet. The site is running on a local Kubernetes cluster consisting of: 2 Wyse Dx0Q thin…

Hello, Knative new world!

As you might have guessed, this WordPress site is hosted using https://knative.dev/ (in particular, the serving component). I’ll write up more about how this is done later, but for now, I’m going to post a quick outline of how I got this site working. I started with this Dockerfile: And then I ran the resulting…

Kubernetes Self-Hosted Registry

An OCI registry feels like it really should be part of the core out-of-the-box Kubernetes offering. I suspect the main reason it's not is that none of the vendors supporting Kubernetes really have a lot of incentive to make this part easier to handle for new developers, and all have their own registry solution they'd prefer to sell.

Back Online!

A combination of busy work / home schedule and compounding errors in my home setup took this down for nearly two months. At the end of it all, the failure was multi-faceted, not even counting my own lack of time failures: Linux distro failures I still haven’t diagnosed why, but it appears that about 3-4…

1, 7, 30, 365 Days: A Framework

I’ve talked to various folks developing this idea, but I haven’t written it down until now. A Framework for Product Engagement In the developer experience arena, I hear lots of people talking about “day 1” and “day 2 operations”. Day 1 is meant to mean the initial green-field development experience before the application goes into…

It’s back!

This blog is a bit of an experiment in running WordPress on Knative on Kubernetes in my own home. As some people may have noticed, the blog has been more down than up recently, despite the theoretically sounds underpinnings. If you’re curious, here’s a brief explanation as a way of easing myself back into the…

Happy 1.0, Knative!

Reflections on the last four years of Knative.

Category: Hardware