Agentic Coding
As this is my first newsletter of 2026, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! For me, this year will be the Year of AI. For the first time in my 25-year career in the IT industry, I feel this year I will change the way I write software. Over the past […]
Using the LINSTOR Python API to Interface with LINSTOR Clusters in Kubernetes
Introduction to the LINSTOR APIs One of the most notable but easily overlooked features in LINSTOR® is its REST API. Typically, LINSTOR users interact with their LINSTOR clusters by using the LINSTOR command line client utility (also known as the linstor-client) to perform administrative tasks. These tasks include operations such as adding LINSTOR satellite nodes to a cluster […]
Exploring Homelabbing & Open Source Innovations
With a decent covering of snow on the ground here finally, and the end-of-year holiday season approaching, I’ve been thinking about some homelab maintenance tasks I want to try to knock out. Being thoughtful about maintaining systems is a critically important part of high availability, as I have written about before on the LINBIT blog. This […]
Reducing DRBD Memory Requirements
Over its more than 20 years of existence, DRBD® has earned some renown as data replication software with high performance. Put to the test on some potent hardware, the LINBIT® team has shown impressive benchmarking numbers1. Independent testing has also shown strong results on more conventional hardware2. Performance is one reason DRBD is often used […]
