Blake Smith

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Blake Smith's articles on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, hardware projects, and self-hosting.

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• Hello RWX #Tech #Systems #Infrastructure

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  Oct 5, 2026

• You Should Host Your Own Code Forge #SelfHosting #DevOps #OpenSource

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  Aug 16, 2026

• The Server Rack Expands #Tech #Hardware #SelfHosting

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  Jun 26, 2026

• More Functionality, Less Dependency #Tech #OpenSource #Cloud

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  Jun 24, 2026

• Cloud Hypervisor is Awesome #CloudComputing #Virtualization #OpenSource

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  May 3, 2026

• Dynamic Provisioned Load Balancers with Pingora #Cloud #Networking #DevOps

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  Mar 22, 2026

• A Basement Server Rack is Born #Tech #SelfHosting #Hardware

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  Mar 11, 2026

• Connecting Firecracker VMs to Crucible Network Block Storage - Part 2 #CloudNative #Virtualization #Networking

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  Oct 17, 2025

• Connecting Firecracker VMs to Oxide Computer's Crucible Block Storage #CloudNative #Virtualization #OpenSource

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  Oct 12, 2025

• How to use Parquet Java without Hadoop #DataEngineering #Java #BigData

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  Oct 5, 2024