🌞🔋 Since I last blogged about Home Assistant automations, I have taken a big step forward in sustainable living by installing a photo voltaic (PV) system with an energy storage unit. 🌱 This exciting upgrade has unlocked incredible opportunities for automating and optimizing energy usage in my home, making it smarter...
From the very beginning, I used an Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) approach in my homelab. However, due to privacy concerns, I couldn’t publish it as open source. Recently, I spent a lot of time separating sensitive information so that I could publish the rest as open source 😊
I built my homelab at the beginning of 2024, see Building your ultimate Homelab blog post. I hosted many services on it, for example: Home Assistant for home automation, Frigate for surveillance, Vaultwarden for password management, Paperless for document management, Omada Software Controller for network management,...
In this blog post, I will share how I use Home Assistant to automate my home in a pragmatic way. Pragmatic means that I’m not trying to automate everything, but only things that make sense to me. For example, for lights automation in the house, I use PIR or microwave motion detectors connected directly to lights, in...
This week, I attended Flink Forward in Berlin, Germany. The event celebrated the 10th anniversary of Apache Flink. Below, you can find my overall impressions of the conference and notes from several interesting sessions. If an aspect was particularly appealing, I included a reference to supplementary materials.
Foundations of scalable systems written by Ian Gorton, the book with my highest rate of 5 ⭐️ I highly recommend that every software engineer grasps the distributed system principles outlined in this book.
September this year is dedicated to reviewing software architecture books. This time, I’ve read Building Evolutionary Architectures written by Neal Ford. I appreciate the effort put into compiling this book. However, I found it to be more of a collection of existing books, articles and talks rather than offering new...
Recently I’ve read Fundamentals of Software Architecture written by Mark Richards and Neal Ford. I found this book valuable, even though my company doesn’t have a formal architect role. At Allegro, the most experienced senior software engineers take on the responsibilities of a software architect in addition to thei...
Welcome to the second part of my homelab blog series. In this installment, we’ll delve into the intricacies of network configuration for homelab setup. We’ll cover topics such as securely accessing your homelab from the internet using VPN mesh, organizing your local network with VLANs, and implementing ACLs for enha...
Yet another blog post about building something from scratch, I thought as I stood in my workshop, surrounded by tools and anticipation. A familiar companion from my earlier adventures crafting a Hi-Fi stereo amplifier or tweaking hardware for my Homelab. This time, it was different, I was diving into the world of gr...