Infrastructure
hlab: Turning a Proxmox Homelab into a Tiny Platform
A hobby project that turns Proxmox VM creation into a self-service platform experience: plans, templates, a dashboard TUI, and a headless CLI for automation and AI agents.
IssueVol. 1
BitKode
An engineering field notebook — Explain complex engineering until it feels obvious.
Cover story
AI Engineering
Which LLM Would I Use for Backend Development?
I gave several LLMs the same Go backend assessment to see which one is actually useful in day-to-day software development. The result was less about who writes the most code and more about who survives verification.
In this issue
Field notes
Departments
The library
Canonical references
What Is CQRS?
A canonical explanation of CQRS: treating reads and writes as two different problems with two different models, why that split exists, and when it is worth the cost.
What Is Event Sourcing?
A canonical explanation of event sourcing: storing the full history of what happened as an append-only log of facts, and deriving current state by replaying it.
What Is the Outbox Pattern?
A canonical explanation of the outbox pattern: how to update a database and publish an event without the two silently drifting apart when one of them fails.
Index
Knowledge domains
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