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K3s vs K8s: Why the Home Lab Keeps Choosing the Underdog
KodeKloud's K3s vs K8s breakdown confirms what the home lab already knows: control plane overhead is a tax, not a virtue, and SQLite is fine.
Read →Proxmox VE 9.0: Debian 13, LVM Snapshots, and SDN Fabrics
Proxmox VE 9.0 is out with Debian 13 Trixie, thick LVM snapshots, SDN Fabrics, and affinity rules. Here's what matters for home lab engineers.
Read →Managed Open Source Observability in 2026: A Working Engineer's Notes
Managed open-source observability in 2026 runs vanilla Prometheus and Loki. Here is what I evaluate and how I migrate without losing my stack.
Read →BorlandTech LLC
Web design, IT support, hosting, and local SEO for small businesses across the Ozarks. Separate brand site at borlandtech.com.
Site →Enterprise Infrastructure
Large-scale infrastructure engineering — NTP architecture, identity management, configuration automation, and container orchestration. I build and maintain systems that keep operations moving across North America.
Proxmox Lab
Declarative VM infrastructure with Proxmox VE — reproducible development environments, container orchestration experiments, and self-hosted services at home.
Home Lab Monitoring
Grafana + InfluxDB + Netdata + Discord alerts — proactive monitoring for the home lab stack.