A working log of technology projects, experiments, and misadventures.
Good projects rarely go in a straight line. 4th Try Tech follows the route they actually take: the idea, the first build, the detours, the rethink, and the version that finally holds.
I write about architecture, tools, automation and home-built infrastructure. Come for the project, stay for the journey, and borrow whatever saves you a lap.
What I wanted and why it seemed simple.
What I tried first, with the versions and the numbers.
What broke, what I changed, and what each try cost.
What is running now, and what I would skip next time.
Second pass at grouping alerts so a bad night is five pages, not fifty.
The config was right. The assumption about the network was not.
Three tries at replication before one held through a pulled cable.