Many people are familiar with the concept of using markup languages to develop diagrams, like GraphViz’s dot Language, or PlantUML. These languages allow users to define diagrams in a text-based format, which can then be rendered into images. If you are not familiar with these tools, check them out - they’re seriously faster for diagram editing and updates than manually drawing boxes in diagramming tools, like some sort of neandertal!
One of my favourite topics to talk about with anyone is self hosting. Some people refer to home automation, some people call it homelabs - I have both, and many other systems, in a fairly vast environment where everything is self hosted.
I truly believe that self hosting is the best way to really understand lots of aspects of technology, privacy, and how to efficiently build and secure systems.
“So, what do you self host?
A fault domain (or failure domain) is essentially a set of resources, or components that share a common point of failure. One example of this is an Azure Availability Zone, or your own single Data Center. Typical points of failure for a fault domain are power (with no backup generator), or cooling, or a datacenter is served by a single network connection. The term “fault domain” could theoretically be applied to smaller areas of an application architecture, like a single network, or a rack of servers, but this article considers a fault domain more from a cloud architecture definition.
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