haproxy
Smart HAProxy Role Detection: Know Your Server's Status Instantly
Update (December 2025): The original script had a critical flaw in VIP detection that could cause both servers to incorrectly
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BusyLight
Making the Busy Light Smarter: Microsoft Teams Integration
Remember the busy light I built with an ESP8266 and Home Assistant? The one that helps my 3-year-old understand when daddy is available? Well, it's gotten a lot smarter since then.
HomeAssistant
Home Assistant + HAProxy: Fixing Add-on Access Blocked by X-Frame-Options
Article written following real debugging on production infrastructure. Configuration tested with HAProxy 2.8.15 and Home Assistant 2024.12 since I had this issue for some times.
license
Stop Losing RDS Per-User CALs to Case Sensitivity: The Real Fix with msTS* LDAP Rights
Fix RDS CAL duplicates by delegating msTS* write rights to AD and enforcing lowercase usernames at NetScaler Gateway as a bonus.
Parallels
Why Parallels RAS Wouldn't Work on Port 443 with my other services
The SNI Routing Trap....
Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Diabetes Monitoring System: Bridging Technology and Healthcare with AI-Powered Analysis
A comprehensive technical exploration of building an automated weekly diabetes monitoring system using AI-powered analysis, weather correlation and medical insights for better Type 1 diabetes management.
TrueNAS
Diagnosing and Fixing TrueNAS Performance Issues: A Complete Case Study (homelab)
A TrueNAS system with sluggish file access was bottlenecked by Samsung 870 QVO drives consumer QLC NAND drives that collapse to 80 MB/s under sustained load in RAIDZ1 configurations.
haproxy
Comprehensive HAProxy High Availability Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus
Complete HAProxy HA monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. Custom dashboard with eight panels covering instance health, throughput and error rates. Includes automated alerts for critical failures.
haproxy
Implementing HAProxy High Availability: A Complete Migration Guide
Migrating from a single HAProxy instance to high availability using keepalived and VRRP. This guide covers implementing automatic failover with Virtual IP management, SSL certificate synchronization and zero-downtime service continuity.
NetScaler
Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy: A Complete Guide
Migrating from Citrix NetScaler to HAProxy removed the 20 Mb/s freemium bottleneck and replaced dead SDX hardware with a modern, open-source load balancer. This guide covers content switching, tricky apps like Home Assistant and Outline, and the key features you can and cannot migrate.
Business Strategy
Why AI Projects (might) Keep Failing ?
Despite massive investment, most AI projects never reach production. Here’s why and how to finally close the gap between ambition and real-world impact.
DNS
Building Enterprise-Grade DNS Infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound
Built a DNS infrastructure with Docker Swarm, AdGuard Home and Unbound delivering 1ms response times, comprehensive ad blocking and complete privacy while maintaining Active Directory compatibility.