LessonsLearned

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Almost RAIDless

My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.

Beware of assumed simplicity

I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a heap of cables. Display cables. You don't think too much about display cables. At least I did not think too much...

From cycling to computer systems performance – Part 1

This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...

Workarounds - revisited

The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...

Workarounds

Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...

The joy of solving performance problems - Part 1

It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...