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Adrian Todorov
Personal blog · atodorov.me · on HN as sofixaprogrammingsystemsai
Adrian Todorov's personal blog at atodorov.me covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Running a multi-gig Home Network in 2024”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this post as a guide to setting up log collection on Nomad, which one commenter says doesn't come out of the box. The commenter notes the post is somewhat dated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My Personal Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Running a multi-gig Home Network in 20242 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-03
- Logging on Nomad and log aggregation with Loki2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-10
What Hacker News says?
> but nothing in micropayments That's not true. Web Monetization is built on top of the Interledger and does precisely that - micropayments for web content. When i wrote about it[0] and posted on HN[1] the overwhelming response here was negative, presupposing greed and lack of privacy of everyone ( as in the website would still track and run ads to earn more money, etc.). The solutions exist, people just don't want…
Comment linking /2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/
on “Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics”Submitted Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes as a story · 183 points
HN discussionSame with Scaleway's, both just work and are fully free. Some time ago i compared them against the competition and they fared very well even against GKE: https://atodorov.me/2020/06/14/comparing-kubernetes-managed-...
Comment linking /2020/06/14/comparing-kubernetes-managed-services-across-digital-ocean-scaleway-ovhcloud-and-linode/
on “Free for Developers”Submitted Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web as a story · 166 points
HN discussionFYI i wrote a post on the subject : https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetizati...
Comment linking /2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/
on “Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea”Submitted Running a multi-gig Home Network in 2024 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIf someone's interested, i wrote a deeper dive into the matter a few months back, with concrete examples: https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at...
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “Nomad vs. Kubernetes”Submitted Logging on Nomad and log aggregation with Loki as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat would be the point of using Nomad to orchestrate systemd units instead of just using Nomad to raw_exec stuff? Nomad does health checks and all that, so systemd isn't really needed. Btw i wrote an article about how great, easy and feature rich Nomad is which might interest you - https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at...
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “We Don’t Use Docker”Submitted Orchestrating Edge AI Workloads on a Jetson Orin Nano with Nomad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEven on a public cloud, Vault is great for secrets and much better ( has more integrations and is more widely supported) than the cloud vendor's equivalents ( not to mention lock-in). Nomad is a great orchestrator, with lots of integrations ( e.g. it can just run JARs or firecracker microVMs). IMHO features wise it's better than AWS ECS ( the only cloud orchestrator bar Kubernetes I've used, can't talk about the oth…
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “An Update on Our Outage”Submitted Comparing Kubernetes Managed Services Across Do, Scaleway, OVHCloud and Linode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMultiple projects like OpenFaaS and Knative try to bridge that moat. And then there's also Nomad, which is drastically simpler than k8s. Not Heroku-easier, but closer to docker-compose than Kubernetes. Self-plugging my article on the Nomad vs Kubernetes subject: https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at...
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative”Submitted Using Traefik on Nomad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWeb Monetization, Coil.com, Interledger are trying to solve that same problem [1] but honestly It's doubtful it will work. 1 - I've written about this here https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetizati... and it was widely, if mostly negatively, discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26375857
Comment linking /2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/
on “Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)”> Wow, that's pretty cool. Where is this offered? Free in France. > But have you invested in 5Gbps+ networking gear to actually take advantage of the offer? 10 Gbps Nics have become super affordable (~20$) by the way. The 8/8 plan comes with a router that has WiFi 7 (theoretical max 46Gbps, but who knows in reality, it's not really out yet), an SFP+ port, and 4x2.5Gbps Ethernet ports. The one I have only has one 2.5…
Comment linking /2024/07/03/running-a-multi-gig-home-network-in-2024/
on “Making a Linux-managed network switch”An Intel Celeron N5105, on one core, does ~28Gbps locally between two bridged interfaces with iperf. A Raspberry Pi 4 has a single PCIe lane with a total of 4Gbps bandwith for everything (all USB ports and Ethernet). Edit: shameless plug, but I just finished writing an article on my new home network, including the router with the above spec/results: https://atodorov.me/2024/07/03/running-a-multi-gig-home-netw...
Comment linking /2024/07/03/running-a-multi-gig-home-network-in-2024/
on “Making a Linux-managed network switch”It already exists and it's called Web Monetization. I recently wrote an article on it: https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetizati...
Comment linking /2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/
on “Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency”Ut already exists in the form of the Web Monetization standard, which uses the Interledger network. Sadly it isn't very popular yet ( even if the Internet Archive, Imgur and Hacker Noon already support it). I wrote an article about it some time back: https://atodorov.me/2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetizati...
Comment linking /2021/03/07/please-support-web-monetization-if-you-want-less-ads-on-the-web/
on “Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse”Nomad all the way. It's much easier and lighter than Kubernetes, but it does 3/4 of what Kubernetes does. The ecosystem is much lighter but depending on your needs it could be entirely sufficient. I've written about Nomad vs k8s on my blog if that might interest you: https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at... And I've also written about some common things, like Traefik for ingress, Loki for logs…
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on ““You don't need this overengineered goo for your project.””> Docker Swarm was created basically to scratch that itch, but it still hasn't really taken off. I'm hopeful it does one day. It never will, that ship sailed a long time ago. Docker the company is struggling to survive after making wrong bets multiple times. The "enterprise" part, including Swarm, was sold off to Mirantis after years of neglect, and got some much needed investment and big fixes. Nonetheless, Docker…
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “Show HN: A microservice framework, listed in CNCF Landscape, 1 year 10k+ stars”> That these days there are only two serious choices: deploy on a single-node Docker/podman machine, or Kubernetes. I disagree - there's cloud PaaSes like Fargate or Cloud Run, or when self-managing, a third option which is much less known but quite easier while also being more flexible - HashiCorp Nomad. Disclaimer time: I work at HashiCorp, but I've had this opinion for years before joining - https://atodorov.me/2…
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?”Disclaimer: I work at HashiCorp, but have been of this opinion since before joining (source: https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at... ) HashiCorp Nomad is a perfectly easy and flexible orchestrator (not only containers, also VMs, random binaries, Firecracker, WASM, etc.) that is production grade. It has a number of advantages over Kubernetes (being drastically easier to deploy, use and maintai…
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days”If Docker Swarm is on the table (it's practically abandonware), I'd like to throw in Nomad by HashiCorp. It's also fairly lightweight, very flexible (can run various types of containers but also exec any executable), decent ecosystem (supports CNI and CSI). It can scale from single node control plane + workloads to tens of thousands of nodes, and the workers can also be geographically spread out (different regions/z…
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “A Comparative Analysis of K3s, MicroK8s, and Alternatives”Don't ask me, I'm firmly in the HashiCorp Nomad camp: https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at... (Note: quite old, some things are no longer true most notably around Nomad downsides)
Comment linking /2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at-nomad-before-jumping-on-kubernetes/
on “Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS”I can see the point you're trying to make, but you're choosing an interesting way of conveying it, and I disagree. Restic is a backup tool. Velero is a backup tool for Kubernetes. Vultr is a low cost but still decent "cloud" provider. GitOps is a philosophy which makes sense even on small projects. None of those are "wrong" or "overcomplicated" options. The elephant in the room is Kubernetes, which is indeed quite c…
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on “Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups”Logcollection doesn't come out of the box, and you're kinda on your own to set it up, this article (although a bit dated) shows you what you must go through: https://atodorov.me/2021/07/09/logging-on-nomad-and-log-aggr... It also doesn't help that Nomad handles everything from Docker containers to managing regular applications.
Comment linking /2021/07/09/logging-on-nomad-and-log-aggregation-with-loki/
on “Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp”
