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As AI systems mature, infrastructure decisions increasingly determine product success. By 2026, many teams have learned that virtualized environments, while convenient, introduce performance variability, hidden overhead, and long-term cost inefficien...

Before diving into Ironic, I think it’s important to first unpack the idea of bare metal, because understanding that makes everything else click.Honestly, it took me a bit longer than I’d like to admit to really get it. I understood the theory well e...

Whenever using AKS, EKS, k3s, or even full Kubernetes before, you have probably seen clusters where every node gets a public IP. That works, but it’s not ideal, especially if you care about security or you are running a homelab / small cloud setup. R...

After working in the DevOps space, I’ve started asking real questions — not from companies, but from ourselves. Are we really in control? Do we even own our infrastructure anymore? Or are we just sitting behind dashboards, hoping that “auto-scaling” ...

Part of the Proxmox Baremetal Journey series I broke my install more times than I'd like to admit, but by the end I learned a ton about how PBS works under the hood. This post documents everything I learned while setting up Proxmox Backup Server to h...
