Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. This issue covers why many engineers still live in the terminal, the case for PostgreSQL as the default choice more often than people admit, and why swap files make more sense than swap partitions on modern Linux systems. We also look at a strong defense of memcached, how one team built near-instant autocomplete for 240 million domain names, and the system design rules experienced engineers keep coming back to.
On the tutorial front: designing a scalable GitOps pipeline with GitLab and GKE, migrating from ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway without downtime, self-hosting MinIO as a free S3-compatible object store, understanding Makefiles from first principles, and using SSH tunnels properly for local and remote port forwarding.
This week’s projects bring you rlwrap for adding readline features to stubborn CLI tools, Unifly for elegant UniFi network management, Rackpad for self-hosted infrastructure inventory and lab operations, and River, a Go-based background job queue built for reliability and container-friendly deployments.
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Projects of the Week
Rlwrap wraps non-interactive CLI tools to add GNU readline capabilities: command history, line editing, tab completion. A lightweight utility for DevOps who interact with stateful CLI tools (custom dashboards, admin shells, database clients) that lack nati...
Elegant UniFi network management CLI & TUI - for humans and agents
Self-hosted infrastructure inventory and operations for homelabs and labs: racks, devices, ports, cables, IPAM, VLANs, WiFi, compute, discovery, monitoring, reports, and topology visualization.
River is a Go-based background job queue library designed for reliability and performance. It provides a self-hosted alternative to managed job queues, suitable for Kubernetes and container deployments.
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