Mike Zeller

Setting the stage

I recently had a FaceTime call with my friend Dave discussing technical topics – as we often do. This conversation in particular was about Dave’s desire to write some new Rust software to manage SMF services on his home server. The question at hand …

Tailscale: Secure remote access to shared resources

Background

It turns out that I have a lot of technical content that lives in various gists, note taking apps, and local markdown files. There are a variety of technical how-tos, debugging sessions, and subject matter deep …

Running Plex securely on top of ZFS through the magic of lx branded zones and SmartOS.

The nice folks at Plex recently released a version of Plex Media Server for SmartOS and other illumos variants. Actually, half of that statement is a lie. While the folks over at Plex are …

I am not crazy right?

It has been a while since I posted an entry, so I thought I would type up a short post on some fun with the DTrace pid Provider. I was recently working with stud on SmartOS and I wanted to send the logs off to the syslog facility local4. So I modified …

Debugging splunk performance issues in a live environment.

Since joining Voxer to do performance engineering, I have also become the owner of our splunk instances. We rely on splunk heavily to monitor our infrastructure just as most companies do. It is an important tool …