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  • nemith@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•VyOS or Opnsense
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    3 months ago

    Both are just abstractions over primatives and services find in the underlying operating system.

    Moving to just native PF or nftables and running your firewall like a server has been on of my best moves. You will learn a tone more, have a lot more flexibility and overall I think it’s a much better experience.

    I am a traditional network engineer as well (learned Juno’s/Cisco/etc). Ansible is a good way to do “commits” and config management.


  • I used to work at FB a a while back (working on infra, not FE or anything user touching) and we would have private development servers and occasionally I would need to do work on the FE PHP repo (called www) and would need to stay a development server for FB.

    It would connect ti the various services and database as read only and was a private copy. It functioned just like a real webswver with the exception that the cache was stone cold. It would takes MINUTES to load the front page the first time. It is crazy how much caching just makes it functional.

    The problem is that there are so many services and datasets read all the time.