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Aravindh Sampathkumar

@reacharavindh

Computer Systems Engineer

Making computers fast, useful and automated. A curious engineer.

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Role of a Sysadmin

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

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

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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

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Building a Coffee table

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

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

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NFS server based on CentOS 7

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

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ZFS performance

A look at write performance with & without compression.

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

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ZFS file server

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

By Aravindh Sampathkumar

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Lean & fast self-hosted blog

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

Tags

  • backup
  • blog
  • centos
  • compression
  • disks
  • filesystems
  • fio
  • freebsd
  • furniture
  • hpc
  • hugo
  • nfs
  • notifications
  • performance
  • pushover
  • sre
  • static-website
  • storage
  • sysadmin
  • tachyons
  • woodworking
  • zfs
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