On-Prem vs Cloud So over the weekend I saw an interesting article from David the CTO of Basecamp: Servers can last a long timeWe bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to
This is the VPC Show. Where we talk about some random things in tech and what is going on. Moving from VaultWarden So for a while now I have been using VaultWarden. I was running a GKE cluster for a long time. I had a lot of different things running
This has been an interesting week that has a lot to unpack and chat about. DeepSeek So is OpenAI getting a true competitor? Are we seeing the rise of non-GPU trained models? No matter what you think there is a super interesting amount of items coming out from security researchers.
We are getting to the end of January and things are certainly beginning to pick up in the world of tech. With a change of Presidents there are always some change-ups happening. TikTok Ultimately the biggest thing we have seen lately is the TikTok ban being held off a little
Well fortunately we continued to dodge some snow down here in the south. However tech continues no matter what the weather looks like! Using your own suggestions So Jeff Geerling posted a video that really resonated with me Essentially his web server went down because he wasn't following
The ultimate debate that I don't think will ever be solved. Do companies go all in on one cloud, multiple clouds, or just take an on-premise approach? One Cloud So choosing one cloud is probably the most common solution that is seen today. This is purely just going
TikTok So the TikTok ban came and went in less than 24 hours. There are still a lot of points of discussion around this and a lot of things that could potentially be decided could have some major knock on effects to the rest of the tech industry as a
So I have been leasing a rack in a DataCenter for my HomeLab purposes. I recognize this brings in some arguments around "HomeLab" however there is something nice about not having spinning fans right behind me an office that is somehow 10 degrees warmer than anywhere else in
The weeks are starting to pick up during the year which makes things a lot more fun overall. Overall stuff is picking up and it is exciting. Tailscale in my DataCenter So as a fun thing on Nick. I managed to break my OpenVPN deployment on my PFSense firewall in
IAC So is there a point where Infrastructure as Code just becomes too much? We have Terraform adding so many providers to help support different systems so that everything can be "As Code". Don't get me wrong I prefer Configuration as Code rather than Click-Ops. However
Let's take a look back at all of the DevOps things from this week. This week is mostly a continuation of coming back from break. For most of us the normal code freezes are thawing and we are starting to work towards things that need to happen. Overall
As everyone has been saying a lot lately, "Happy New Year!" However what does DevOps and Platform Engineering look like going into 2025? Is there anything exciting that is happening or what are some of the lingering items from last year? These are a few of my general