Sharing notes from my ongoing learning journey — what I build, break and understand along the way.
From Bare Metal to GitOps: Architecting a Modern Kubernetes Cluster for PactNote Behind every great software project lies an invisible hero: Infrastructure. When starting a new project, many of us tend to open our code editors right away and focus…
Building a Private Intranet Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide to Apache2, MariaDB, and Nextcloud Hello everyone! In this post, I will share my adventure of building a fully-fledged web server from scratch in a “Remote Lab” environment. Our goal is not…
Building an Air-Gapped Automated Backup System with TrueNAS and iSCSI We live in a digital world, and whether we are a massive corporation or a small startup, our most valuable asset is our “data.” It has happened to all of…
Building a Company’s Digital Heart: A Guide to Enterprise Server Infrastructure from Scratch In today’s digitized world, a company’s success isn’t just measured by the product it sells, but by the robustness of the technological infrastructure supporting it. As a…
How to Build a Real-Time Industrial SCADA System using Python and KEPServerEX In the era of Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation, the biggest challenge for factories is making machines that speak dozens of different languages on the shop floor (Siemens…
Zero Downtime: Architecting a 50-User Engineering IT Setup from Scratch Sometimes I ask myself, “If a company came to me like this, how would I build the most accurate and secure IT infrastructure for them from scratch, without any limitations?”…
Mastering Storage Redundancy: A Deep Dive into RAID Configuration via Hyper-V Technical Note: The environment used for this guide was configured with German (Deutsch) as the system language. Consequently, all screenshots feature German UI terminology. To ensure clarity for English-speaking…
High-Velocity Analytics: Benchmarking SAP HANA with 1 Million Records on Docker In today’s business world, data is the new oil; however, raw oil is meaningless unless refined. The speed of processing data is the key to competitive advantage. Traditional Relational…
Deep Dive into Active Directory: Mastering FSMO Roles and Securing Branch Offices (RODC) Active Directory (AD) is essentially the “digital phonebook” and security guard of a company network. It manages users, computers, and permissions. However, as an organization grows, simply…
Building a Multi-Domain Active Directory Forest In the world of IT, setting up a single server is just “Day 1” stuff. The real expertise lies in understanding how to build a network that can survive failures, scale across different office…