Hi, I'm Brett

Marketing guru by day, FOSS dev by night.

Tag: linux

  • Stop Exposing Your Homelab: Build a Private Edge with Tailscale, Swizzin, and Docker

    At some point, your setup stops being “a server” and starts being a system. That’s usually when things get weird. I hit that point running a hybrid Swizzin + Docker stack. So I stopped trying to fix Docker. And replaced the network instead. The problem nobody talks about Most people build stacks like this: Then…

  • Current Projects

    I’m a Media, Information and Technoculture graduate from Western University with a background spanning content marketing, video production, and open-source infrastructure. I enjoy working across disciplines — whether that’s crafting campaigns for technical buyers or tuning Linux kernels for production traffic. HJV Equipment — Content & Marketing Specialist Since April 2023, I’ve been running content…

  • Should I Defrag XFS?

    XFS is a high performance filesystem, meant for high amounts of IO and will take a beating with varying sized files, and has the ability to scale quite easily. While XFS provides many benefits to IO by allowing striped allocation, etc. etc. it can become fragmented. Which is liklely why you’re here. The highest risk…

  • Faster and Faster: Speeding up CDN Hosts

    After my previous blog post on the CDN for media server applications, I’ve started to run into bottlenecks that result in worse performance sometimes, resulting in a huge investigation into what is slowing us down across the board. I’ve just started scratching the surface on what can be done to improve speeds to assorted parts…

  • Some Linux Systems Administration Wisdom

    The Bourne Again SHell, or BASH for short, is a powerful language that can be used for low-level linux system administration operations. While modern systems engineers have a strong liking to more robust solutions like Redhat’s Ansible, for consumer facing projects I find that readability is key. Now, sure ansible is readable, but it’s unapproachable.…