// BLOG
Field Notes
Insights from the infrastructure trenches.
How I Built a Production-Grade Homelab with Kubernetes, Observability, and Full GitOps — And the AI That Helped Me Do It
A deep dive into building a six-node RHEL 9 Kubernetes cluster with GitOps CI/CD, enterprise observability, split-horizon DNS, wildcard TLS, and a full self-hosted application stack — and how AI collaboration made it faster.
read more →Building an Enterprise SIEM on Elasticsearch: Lessons from the Field
How to design, deploy, and operate an Elasticsearch-based SIEM platform that can handle enterprise-scale security data — including the mistakes to avoid.
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