Role of a Sysadmin

My personal on-the-job experience from building and managing a compute cluster used for research.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

Adhoc mobile notifications for a sysadmin using Pushover

As a sysadmin, I'd like to get notified of certain events in my infrastructure. Here is how I use Pushover to do it.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

A modern coffee table custom built from African black limba wood and thermo oak wood.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

A how-to guide for configuring an NFS server to share binaries for a HPC cluster. Optimized for performance for a read-only scenario.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

A look at write performance with & without compression.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

Building a file server with FreeBSD, ZFS and a lot of disks.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

In the days of obese internet, this is my tale of building a fast blog that uses HTTP/2, TLS, compression, and Tachyons CSS.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar