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Learnings, guides, and thoughts on Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and Smart Home Automation.

June 15, 20245 min read

Building a Resilient Smart Home with Home Assistant & Zigbee

A deep dive into setting up a local-first smart home infrastructure using Home Assistant, Intel NUC10, and local Zigbee mesh network for 100% offline reliability.

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April 20, 20247 min read

Lessons Learned Optimizing Cloud Cost & Infrastructure at Scale

Practical strategies from scaling cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, and cost governance while maintaining 99.99% system availability.

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