Adventures in Datacenter Networking
Field notes from bringing our first datacenter server's networking online.
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Conrad Research is an architect-led research and product company reshaping the digital terrain of architecture and real estate. We’re crafting the autocomplete for architecture so that repetitive work disappears and creativity has room to breathe.
— Austen Conrad, Founder, AIA, NCARB, NCIDQ
What we've learned
A running journal of insights, breakthroughs, and early looks at the technology we are building as we terraform architecture.
Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD
FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant roll‑backs, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment. This article walks through the (very opinionated) flow that we use. From jails setup through running Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy in front of the jails.
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Temporal Dev Server on FreeBSD
At Conrad Research we LOVE Temporal. It gives us a high velocity in development because our code doesn't have to worry as much about implementing retry logic. We are in the process of moving to a self-hosted Temporal server and as such we're starting with the baby step of setting up a Temporal CLI dev server to run on our FeeBSD deployment platform.
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Building Turso Golang Client on FreeBSD
At Conrad Research, we love Turso, Go, and FreeBSD. This guide walks you through building and installing the Turso Go client on FreeBSD, so that you can start writing Go applications that connect to Turso from your FreeBSD server.
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Zed + Groq = Insanely Fast Coding Assistance
Sometimes in life you stumble upon unexpected joy :) For me, it was recently Zed. After a couple of weeks, I was completely sold on Zed as my new IDE. Then one morning I was thinking about how insanely fast Groq’s inference is and it dawned on me: what if I could use Groq as my inference backend in Zed?
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