Homelab

Overview Most of the posts in this series so far have been “here’s how I built X.” This one’s different. It’s about something I built, used for a while, and then mostly walked away from: a Kubernetes cluster running Talos . This isn’t a “Kubernetes is bad” post. It’s a “here’s what it was actually like to run it at home, and why I ended up somewhere simpler” post. The short version: I moved from a Talos-based Kubernetes cluster to a single Proxmox host running a mix of LXC containers and VMs, with Dokploy and Docker Compose handling application deployment. ...

The Debate Nobody Wins Ask ten engineers whether to use a monorepo and you will get eleven opinions. The polyrepo crowd will tell you that separate repos mean clear ownership, independent versioning, and small focused histories. The monorepo crowd will point at Google, Meta, and Microsoft and say: if it scales there, it scales anywhere. Both camps are right about something. And both camps tend to argue past the thing that actually matters: what is the right fit for your situation? ...