The 64KB Pipe Trap
There is a peculiar class of system failures that leaves almost no trace. The process does not crash. There is no error code, no final log entry, and no obvious signal of…
ls ~/floss
Why Unix Doesn’t Kill Your Children (and Why That’s a Feature)
Last week my live-streaming transcoder started dying mid-session. The publisher would get disconnected, reconnects would fail, and the only cure was restarting nginx entirely. While poking around during one of these incidents,…
Lessons from Running a Live Streaming Setup for More than 7 Years
After seven years of managing high-traffic live streams, you learn that the biggest challenges aren’t usually the video codecs—they are the “invisible” layers: filesystem synchronization, HTTP header inheritance, and metadata consistency. When…
When a 2-Core Server Hits Load 45+: A Real-World LAMP Debugging Story
There’s a particular kind of panic that sets in when you SSH into a production server and see this: On a 2-core machine, that’s not just high — it’s catastrophic. I usually…
When Pi-hole + Unbound Stop Resolving: A DNSSEC Trust Anchor Fix
I have my own private DNS setup in my home network, powered by Pi-hole running on my very first Raspberry Pi, a humble Model B Rev 2. It’s been quietly handling ad-blocking…