Writing on infrastructure, systems engineering, and technology leadership. 4 posts.
Omada's built-in DDNS client only allows one entry per provider per domain — a dealbreaker with two WANs. A small self-hosted Cloudflare Worker speaking the decades-old DynDNS2 protocol fixes it properly.
A self-hosted LiteLLM gateway puts Gemini, and a houseful of local models, behind one API — so Home Assistant can ask a real question instead of just firing rigid if-this-then-that rules.
A static site with a headless CMS backend, an auto-rebuild pipeline, and no hosting fees beyond a single VPS.
Every service in my homelab — from DNS to media management — goes through the same pipeline a real production system would. Here's the architecture, and why the CI/CD layer, not any one tool, is what actually holds it together.