This is where I document my journey through DevOps, infrastructure, and engineering life. Expect Kubernetes tips, homelab experiments, and the occasional detour into electronics tinkering. Whether you’re a fellow engineer or just curious about how things work under the hood, I hope you find something useful (or at least mildly interesting) here.

Setting up USB Passthrough with Kubernetes

Setting up USB Passthrough with Kubernetes

Sometimes, the only way to get a project working seamlessly is to give your workloads direct access to the hardware attached to your cluster nodes. In my case, I wanted to expose a USB Zigbee gateway, which I use with Home Assistant to connect with various sensors such as door and temperature sensors. The wrinkle is that my Home Assistant setup runs inside Kubernetes. This led me to explore a reliable and maintainable way to expose a specific USB device to a containerized workload.

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Learning from Airlines - Part 2

What Startups Can Learn from the Airline Industry’s Approach to Crisis

Having worked at several startups over the years, I’ve seen my share of high-pressure product outages and last-minute scrambles. In those moments, I’ve often thought that startups could learn a lot from industries where lives are literally on the line, like aviation. There’s a simple but profound framework from airline crisis management that I think every startup could benefit from: “Aviate. Navigate. Communicate.”

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Learning from Airlines - Part 1

What Startups Can Learn from Airline Safety Culture

Over the years, I’ve noticed that some of the best practices in the world’s safest industries often hold valuable lessons for startups. The airline industry, for example, has achieved a remarkable level of safety and reliability, not through luck, but by instilling rigorous processes and a deeply rooted culture of learning. Even though some of these ideas may sound familiar to those who have worked in big tech, I believe that startups have just as much, if not more, to gain from adopting these principles early on.

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