🧱 Built Step by Step The last public update on QuorumBD was published several months ago. In an early-stage project, such a gap can easily create the impression that development has stalled or that the project has been abandoned. That is not the case. QuorumBD is still on our workbench. However, a project like QuorumBD … Read more
remote-systemd-toggle 1.1.0 is now available. This release focuses on two areas: better operational hardening with fail2ban support and a significantly improved README with clearer documentation, configuration examples, security notes, and tradeoffs. 🛡️ fail2ban Support Version 1.1.0 adds log output intended for fail2ban integration. The main goal is to help protect the server against repeated connection … Read more
We are happy to announce that remote-systemd-toggle 1.0.0 is now available. This is the first public release of the project and provides a small, focused Go client/server tool for securely toggling a predefined systemd service over the network. 🔐 Secure Remote Service Control remote-systemd-toggle uses TLS 1.3, mutual TLS authentication, an additional password check, and … Read more
Sometimes the simplest tools are the most useful ones. While managing servers, VPN gateways, lab systems, and infrastructure, we occasionally found ourselves wanting a very small utility that could securely toggle a specific systemd service from a remote machine. Not a complete orchestration platform. Not a web application. Not another management framework. Just a small, … Read more
Designing Backpressure and Concurrency in QuorumBD Middleware Building a distributed block storage system requires careful attention not only to replication and consistency, but also to the behaviour of the middleware layer that connects clients to the storage core. In QuorumBD, the middleware is intentionally designed to remain lightweight and deterministic, acting as a reliable bridge … Read more
Thirty-Five Years in the Machine — and Why I Left 🏭 Inside the Machine I have been inside the machine for thirty-five years. Not on the periphery. Not as an observer. Inside — where decisions are made that shape products used by billions, where projects worth hundreds of millions live and die in conference rooms, … Read more
🚀 retentions 1.3: Smarter Retention, Fewer Surprises With retentions 1.3, the tool grows up another notch. The core idea hasn’t changed:explicit, deterministic retention rules for plain files — no magic, no guessing. But version 1.3 adds a few very practical features that solve real-world annoyances many backup setups quietly suffer from. 🧰 What’s New in … Read more
There was a folder full of backups. There are always folders full of backups. Some are named carefully.Some are named in panic.All of them grow silently. And then there was you — a system architect who does not like silent chaos. You didn’t want a “backup solution.”You wanted policy. Not heuristics. Not magic.Determinism. And that … Read more
🎉 retentions 1.0 is out After a long stretch of building, testing, and thinking a bit too hard about file deletion, I’m releasing retentions 1.0 — the first production-ready version. retentions is a small, cross-platform CLI tool that applies backup-style retention rules to plain files.It does not create backups.It does not “clean up a bit”. … Read more
🔥 QuorumBD: A System Built for the Edge of Collapse There are storage systems that whisper. And there are storage systems that roar. QuorumBD must roar. Not because the world needs more noise —but because the world is drowning in fragile complexity. Clusters that pretend to be invincible.Stacks that collapse under their own abstraction.Distributed systems … Read more
