Notes from the racks
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Written by platform engineers
Field-tested, not theoretical
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7 articles
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Inference is not training: sizing for serving, not for the run
Training is throughput-bound and batch-friendly. Serving is latency-bound and bursty. Sizing one like the other is how GPU bills get strange.
Sep 2, 2026
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Sizing a GPU instance: what to put around the accelerator
A GPU is only as fast as the CPU, memory and disk feeding it. How to size the rest of the instance so the accelerator is the bottleneck.
Sep 2, 2026
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Ingress, LoadBalancer or NodePort: exposing a service without guessing
Three ways to get traffic into a Kubernetes cluster, what each one actually costs, and the decision rule that stops you paying for twelve load balancers.
Aug 31, 2026
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Upgrading a production Kubernetes cluster without downtime
The pre-flight checks, the PodDisruptionBudgets that make a node drain safe, the upgrade order, and why there is no rollback for a control plane.
Aug 31, 2026
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Persistent volumes on managed Kubernetes: what to use for what
Block, file and object storage in a cluster: which primitive fits which workload, the access-mode rules that surprise people, and the reclaim policy that deletes production data.
Aug 31, 2026
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A working 3-2-1 backup setup with Veeam
A concrete Veeam configuration implementing 3-2-1-1-0 against object storage with immutability, plus the retention arithmetic and the settings people get wrong.
Aug 23, 2026
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The 30-minute hardening baseline for a public VM
The short list of changes that removes almost all opportunistic attacks against an internet-facing Linux VM, with the commands to apply them.
Aug 23, 2026
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