Intro
Stuurman (stuurman.com) is the personal publication and engineering notes of Ed Stuurman, a senior infrastructure and reliability engineer based in Kanagawa / Greater Tokyo, Japan. Over the past decade, my work has centered on mission-critical environments where resilience isn't optional—architecting enterprise mail migrations, scaling high-throughput delivery platforms, distributed observability, and cloud infrastructure.
This site is an extension of my homelab—a place where I document cloud infrastructure automation with Terraform, architectural notes, and deep-dive technical write-ups. I take a practical, hands-on approach: understanding how systems work under the hood, cutting through unnecessary complexity, and building setups that hold up under real production pressure.
Notes from the homelab: engineering deep-dives, infrastructure setups, and lessons learned along the way. View all articles
Fly.io rebooted their entire global fleet to patch a host kernel zero-day. It is a healthy reminder that underneath every microVM and serverless container sits an unglamorous, mortal Linux hypervisor.
Camera YouTube has written Micro Four Thirds' obituary every autumn for a decade. Meanwhile, I still shoot exclusively on M4/3—because the sharpest full-frame brick on earth takes zero photos from inside a closet.
Normal people plug in one ISP router and go outside. Here is my planned home network blueprint for six UniFi U6 In-Wall units, seven VLANs, two remote workers on quarantined corporate laptops, and smart plugs with the networking stack of a toaster.
How home-lab.net is planned so the public sees a fast static site on CloudFront, while the same domain at home or over WireGuard leads to a private Proxmox core—without opening a single port on the home router.
After 49 attempts on the home-lab.net logo, I needed one more mark for the bridge that connects my homelab to the outside world. Here is how we dodged VPN clichés and accidental music-player icons.
How I plan to replace the last third-party SaaS integration on my static sites—using a CloudFront-fronted Lambda, stateless WebCrypto proof-of-work, and direct RFC 5322 .eml drops into the existing S3 mail relay.
Last year I failed to shoehorn Umami Analytics into AWS Aurora DSQL. Here is the simpler, near-$0 architecture conceptualized for HOME-LAB.net: serverless Lambda + S3 edge ingestion paired with an outbound pull into local PostgreSQL on ZFS.
I can be found with a camera sometimes Check out some pictures
Quick notes, homelab updates, and micro-discoveries from everyday tinkering. Browse the full log stream
Added - Creative Commons & Wikimedia Attribution on Photography: Added support for open content licensing across the photography collection. Photographs…
Added - Wikimedia Commons & Creative Commons Syndication CLI: Added an automated MediaWiki upload and preparation script (npm run wikimedia:prep / npm run…
Added - Automated Homelab Cross-Feed & Living Proof-of-Concept Badges: Added a dedicated JSON Feed (/feed/homelab.json) with CORS headers to automatically…
Fixed & Optimized - Direct Google Images Discovery: Upgraded the photography sitemap and metadata to link directly to full-resolution photographs with…
Checked in on the conifers in the yard now that they have had a full year in the ground. Overall I'm content with how they have settled in—everything has…
Added - Modular Site-Wide Feature Toggles & Configurable Homepage: Every major section and feed (home, about, now, blog, photography, log, tags, contact,…
Added - Interactive Diagram Zoom & Pan: Technical diagrams across /blog/ articles now include an interactive zoom modal with smooth pinch-to-zoom,…
