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rothgar.medium.com is a personal blog at rothgar.medium.com about programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link these posts for home-lab and Kubernetes cluster builds on cheap hardware, and for teardowns of a Google Mini search appliance. The comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /on-prem-development-kubernetes-cluster-options-701f3ada0b54
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. We had a blue mini appliance! Teardowns previously: https://rothgar.medium.com/google-mini-search-appliance-tear... | http://1n73r.net/2012/12/11/google-mini-search-appliance-tea... https://www.anandtech.com/show/1781/3

    Comment linking /google-mini-search-appliance-teardown-98ccc482bbae

    on “Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance”
  2. In case you missed it from the article: > I know there are cheaper ways to bulid a home lab Kubernetes cluster. My goal wasn’t to build a cheap cluster—see my privous post for a 4 node cluster under $100. [0] Speaking of which... the author's other post talks minikube - does anyone have any idea what the recommended minimum system requirements might look like for EKS Anywhere? Can't find it on their downloads/docs p…

    Comment linking /on-prem-development-kubernetes-cluster-options-701f3ada0b54

    on “Cubernetes”
  3. If you want a powerful and cheap cluster I recommend getting old enterprise desktops. They work great. I have a full post about options here (it's a bit old but still relevant) https://rothgar.medium.com/on-prem-development-kubernetes-cl...

    Comment linking /on-prem-development-kubernetes-cluster-options-701f3ada0b54

    on “Cubernetes”

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