Infrastructure

Most Arch install guides read like someone dumped their terminal history into a blog and called it a day. I wanted more than that. I wanted a system that was secure, fast, and didn’t ask me for a password every time I booted. I wanted TPM2-backed full-disk encryption, a modern boot process with UKI, and a layout that respected my time. And I wanted it to be repeatable — no more tinkering for hours every six months. ...

The Invisible Ceilings of Cloud Infrastructure What Pinterest’s EC2 throttling incident—and others like it—teach us about building resilient systems in a black box world. When the Cloud Slows Down, Quietly It started with user complaints. Pages were loading slowly. API calls were timing out. Internal dashboards lagged behind real-time. Something was wrong—but none of the usual suspects showed up. No alerts fired. No dashboards lit up. Logs were clean. And yet the system was clearly sick. ...