Infrastructure Journal

Notes on networks, systems and quiet automation.

Field notes from running small-scale infrastructure: routing, transport protocols, observability and the occasional deep dive into packet behaviour.

Networking

Tuning QUIC for lossy last-mile links

Buffer sizing, pacing and congestion-control experiments across congested access networks.

Aug 30, 20269 min read
Routing

Anycast in practice, without a backbone

What breaks when you announce the same prefix from two commodity boxes — and how to keep it boring.

Aug 12, 202612 min read
Observability

A monitoring stack on one small node

Prometheus, Grafana and a lot of restraint: dashboards that survive a 1 vCPU budget.

Jul 27, 20267 min read
Systems

Reversible firewall changes

A discipline for editing live rulesets on remote machines you cannot physically reach.

Jul 09, 20266 min read
Tooling

Certificates that renew themselves

ACME plumbing, deploy hooks and the small scripts that keep TLS boring for years.

Jun 21, 20268 min read
Field Notes

Debugging latency spikes at 3 a.m.

When graphs lie: correlating qdisc counters, neighbour tables and one noisy rack.

Jun 02, 202610 min read

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A personal notebook on infrastructure engineering — written between deploys, mostly for future me. No trackers, no analytics, no third-party fonts.