Alex Reeve

Notes on systems, storage and old maps. Mostly for myself.

On boring infrastructure

The best ops days are the ones where nothing happens. I’ve been moving a small archive off a shared host onto a tiny VPS, and I keep being surprised by how little I need.

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Map archive — week 14

Found a 1908 survey of the Onega bay in a flea market in Helsinki. Scanning is slow; the paper is brittle. Trying not to over-clean the scans this time.

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Postgres & the long tail

Why we stopped sharding and just bought more RAM. A small write-up on a small system.

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