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- A Distributed System from scratch, with Scala 3 - Part 3: Job submission, worker scaling, and leader election & consensus with Raft
2025-05-18: Upgrades to Bridge Four, the functional, effectful distributed compute system optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads: Updating Scala, auto-scaling workers, and implementing leader election with Raft (or half of a replicated state machine).
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- My 2025 Homelab Updates: Quadrupling Capacity
2025-01-01: ...because everybody wants 40 cores, 256GB RAM, and 130TB storage. Some 2025 updates to my homelab, which might or might not be getting out of hand.
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- Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned)
2024-08-25: A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
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- Improving my Distributed System with Scala 3: Consistency Guarantees & Background Tasks (Part 2)
2024-02-19: Improving Bridge Four, a simple, functional, effectful, single-leader, multi worker, distributed compute system optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads by providing consistency guarantees and improving overall code quality (or something like that).
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