Software Engineer · Homelab Architect

I build infrastructure that runs itself.

Software engineer. Everything on this site, including the site itself, runs in my homelab.

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Recent Posts

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  • 2026-07-01
    MariaDB finally has a VIP

    Three-node Galera plus ProxySQL closes the last single-point-of-failure database in the lab.

  • 2026-06-26
    InnoDB log scan aborted: why NFS and embedded databases do not mix

    Uptime Kuma's embedded MariaDB ran on a shared NFS volume in Docker Swarm. After an ungraceful shutdown, InnoDB could not recover and the monitoring stack went dark. The real fix was not restoring the database but eliminating the architectural pattern that made the failure inevitable.

  • 2026-06-23
    The .so file that took down twelve databases at once

    A routine Patroni maintenance restart caused all twelve TimescaleDB databases to fail simultaneously because the cluster was running a source-built extension that the package manager did not know about.