š Hi There!
I'm Brian Brookman, an IT engineer located in Southern California who specializes in Networking, Cloud, and Kubernetes. I help people build and operate scalable, resilient IT infrastructures.
Most of my publicly available work can either be found on GitHub or on this site. Iām also active in a number of online communities.
When Iām AFK, I enjoy being bad at My Hobbies and spending time with my girlfriend and our cats.
To find and connect with me elsewhere on the interwebz, see My Socials.
š” About this site
This site is my corner of the web. It's my Digital Garden where I publish posts and notes (in all their stages) on all the various things I work on, learn about, or find myself interested in.
šæ Posts
Articles, essays, and everything in between.
- Updating Container Images the Flux GitOps way
- Trying out Harvester HCI in my Homelab
- What Even is a Link State Anyways
- An Unwanted Adventure in Hard Drive Recovery
- Making sense of file permissions in Docker containers
- Exploring Kubernetes Service Networking
For more, see All Published Posts.
š± Notes
Zettelkasten-style notes to help me understand things.
- Loose coupling helps to reduce toil
- In Wi-Fi SNR isn't a ratio; it's a difference
- Sending raw HTTP to an HTTPS server
- Compressors shouldn't be used with an edge of break-up tone
- Clipping is a form of compression
- My notetaking workflow
- Note types in my Zettelkasten system
- Common organization is good for sharing
You can discover more by following links in notes or using search.
These notes are written primarily for me. They may be unfinished, lacking sources, or just plain incorrect.