Kubernetes on Raspberry: Bootstrapping the Raspberry Pis

Preparing (bootstrapping) the Raspberry Pis to become Kubernetes nodes...

September 10, 2024 · 18 min · safts

Kubernetes on Raspberry: Hardware and Cluster Node configuration

Explaining the hardware used for the nodes, the cluster’s node configuration and costs....

August 21, 2024 · 19 min · safts

🧪 Building a Home Lab with Raspberry Pis and k8s

Why I’m building a Home Lab using Raspberry Pis, Kubernetes and 3D printing....

May 29, 2024 · 14 min · safts

Debugging random slow writes in PostgreSQL

In web applications it’s not rare to face performance issues that we can’t quite understand. Especially when working with databases, we treat them as this huge “black box” that 99% of the times works amazingly without us even caring about it. Heck, we even use stuff like ORMs that essentially “hide” our interaction with the database, making us think that we don’t need to care about this stuff. If you’re developing something small, contained, simple then this is probably the case....

April 3, 2021 · 14 min · safts