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Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Infrastructure is the foundational components required to build and operate cloud-based systems.

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  • Published Jul 10, 2026
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What It Is

Cloud Infrastructure is the foundational components required to build and operate cloud-based systems. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

In My Own Words

“Knowing how these systems work with other systems, and which tools and sub-products should be chosen and not used — that’s a big part of it. I can steer clients away from technology that looks like it might work but won’t actually work for their application.” Full transcript on the AWS page.

Preview for Self Beacon Tracking (iBeacon)
◉Self Beacon Tracking (iBeacon)

Self Beacon Tracking (iBeacon)

Experimented with iBeacon transmitters placed around the house to track room-by-room location before indoor positioning was a product category.

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◎Storage systems

Storage systems

Persistence layers provide durability, availability, and performance through replication, partitioning, and tiering.

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Preview for The Homelab
○The Homelab

The Homelab

Projects building and operating personal infrastructure — servers, clusters, networks, and the experiments that run on them.

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Preview for WiFi Security Research — ESP8266 & Rotating MAC Addresses
◉WiFi Security Research — ESP8266 & Rotating MAC Addresses

WiFi Security Research — ESP8266 & Rotating MAC Addresses

A proof of concept using ESP8266 microcontrollers to demonstrate that rotating MAC addresses can still be fingerprinted via broadcast SSIDs.

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