Running a 10 Gbit network and making sure that you get the supposed bandwidth requires more effort than “plug and play”, which works for 1 Gbit. In this article I’ll describe my struggles and lessons learnt. Background In the first post in this series, I described the server I had chosen for my new FreeNAS …
Month: July 2020
The phrase ”Freedom with Responsibility?” doesn’t seem to exist in English. It’s what you get if you type in the Swedish phrase “frihet under ansvar” into Google. It’s a company culture that I’ve come to dislike more and more. In theory “freedom with responsibility” is a fantastic thing. It means that employees are 100% empowered …
I’ve been wanting to write this series of articles for quite a while. In a world of agile transformations, straw man arguments about command and control and Taylorism, and self-organization being the answer to everything, I’ve been missing a balanced and realistic discussion about the role of management. In the upcoming series of posts, I’ll …
Just a quick one this time. I needed a newer version of Python on my Mac. This article provides a very exhaustive explanation of what to do. When following its advice, I got into a mess with Homebrew. Basically, it needed to be updated, upon which it required changing the ownership of /usr/local: I didn’t …
In this three-part series, I describe a homelab infrastructure project where I build a 10Gbit NAS/SAN. The line between a NAS and a SAN is quite blurry these days, hence “SANAS”. Background I’m running 10 Gbit at home between my work computer and an old VMware server with a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN doing the switching. Having …
Good question! Why would you do that? You can publish things on LinkedIn, Medium, InfoQ, or any other platform for that matter, or do what most people do: write something short on Twitter or Instagram. Still, I decided to reboot my blogging and go back this old-fashioned format. The primary reason is that I miss …