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Lab

Work in progress, published on purpose.

Experiments and prototypes with a stated hypothesis, an architecture, and findings — including the ones that did not work out.

Launch stateThese entries are placeholders while the real case studies and experiment write-ups are prepared for publication.

All lab experiments

BUILDINGDraftStarted 2025-03

Grounded retrieval for runbooks

Can retrieval over internal runbooks answer on-call questions without inventing steps that do not exist?

  • AI
  • Reliability
  • pgvector
  • PostgreSQL
  • TypeScript
  • Embeddings
EXPERIMENTDraftStarted 2025-01

Policy-as-code sandbox

A local environment for writing, testing and dry-running admission policies before they ever reach a cluster.

  • DevSecOps
  • Platform
  • Security
  • OPA
  • Rego
  • Kind
  • Conftest
ACTIVEDraftStarted 2024-08

Homelab as a control plane

Running the same GitOps and observability stack at home as in production, to test platform ideas at low cost.

  • Cloud
  • Platform
  • Reliability
  • Proxmox
  • Kubernetes
  • Argo CD
  • Terraform