What I’ve Learned from Building My Own Stack
Building your own stack teaches humility. Every choice is a trade off, and every trade off tells a story.
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If I Had to Build an Observability Platform from Scratch Today
Build an observability platform around understanding, correlation, narrative, and resilience—not just logs, metrics, and dashboards.
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Why Enrichment turns Logs into actual Observability
In my opinion, true observability comes from enrichment—connecting fragmented log lines into coherent events that actually explain what happened.
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Inside My Observability Stacks (and Why I Built them this Way)
What’s in a stack? Elastic or Prometheus or something else altogether? This isn’t about “better,” it’s about answering the real questions.
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All Things Backup: Pi-hole (Teleporter)
It’s now a personal mission to backup everything in my home lab. Today I discuss how backing up my Pi-Hole using PowerShell.
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PowerShell | Docker | Home Lab
Solving Docker Volume Backups with PowerShell
Saving docker volumes was more challenging that I initially thought, but thankfully PowerShell was there to help again.
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Docker Containers in my Home Lab
Just a list, sitting here, waiting for my containers to notice me
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Install Latest 7-Zip with PowerShell
I still consider 7-zip to be essential on almost any workstation or machine I touch. This expedites the download and install.
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Installing Utilities Folder with PowerShell
There are a handful of utilities I’ve always used and expect on Windows workstations and servers. This helps streamline that process.
