Meetups/Infra/2026-04-13

2026-04-13 m Meetups/Infra

(TODO summary)

Introductions

• [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]

• Elan - k8s stan , interested in PQ secret sharitng
• Zaccae - self-host, sys config in LISP
• Doug - self-hosting, recently discovered ZFS email alert.
• Alex - interested in post quantum secret sharing
• Jake - self-host, Gentoo dev
• Ryan - data-scientist, interested in more software development
• Kevin - software engineer, interested in navigation systems
• Eugene - interested in data management, ZFS, open source RAID systems
• Renaud - self-hosting, generally interested in infra topics
• Dave - hates self-hosting (super annoying) (slander!) interested in distributed systems
• Bjorn - intereded in distributed systems w/o expensive hardware
• Heather - designated linux gal, recently interested in syncing mobile + desktop machines
• Zoe - working as software engineer/dev ops, interested in learning more about infra/back into tech

Lesson or Demo

• Read aloud: clarify for meetup. We are taking notes in a riseup pad (or I am--help appreciated, and links). We have meeting notes posted to the wiki. noisebridge.net, search Infra, or Meetups/Infra. (the Infrastructure page has a disambiguation link.)
• Shell, web services, self-hosting, networking!

SuperQ updates:

• https://github.com/noisebridge/infrastructure/
• We have metrics/observability for the wiki!
• grafana links: https://grafana.noisebridge.net/d/fed94ifiv8h6oc/caddy?orgId=1&from=now-2d&to=now&timezone=browser&var-datasource=afhk6j5f88o3kc&var-job=caddy&var-instance=m3.noisebridge.net:443&var-handler=$__all&refresh=1m

This is meant to help us understand existing bottlenecks in our web-serving infrastructure! All assistance is welcomed!

Software vulnerability updates https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03 /30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/

Demo: Elan gave a quick demo of SourcesPlease, app that he's serving on fully declarative baremetal k8s using GitOps

• Talos+Istio+KEDA+CNPG+FluxCD
• mini-postmortem/lesson learned: a lot of modern web-framworks do clever things to be more responsive (hashed-based chunking for delivering resources) that do funny things when you don't understand the mechanisms properly (ie. without proper handling resources go missing on redeploy because it looks for a differnt hash)

Questions, Discussion, or Coworking

- bluesky community-notes? -

Outros

• Zaccae - likes attestations, wants more blood (postmortems)
• Doug - interested in bad actor detection
• Alex - likes SourcesPlease, wanted to go into post-quantum encryption strategy
• Jake - likes seeing a small-scale k8s deployment actually doing
• Ciara - needs to look at infra deployments/NoiseGarden
• Ryan - really appreciated seeing that noisebridge has metrics
• Kevin - liked seeing demos/ the disccussion
• Zoe - liked seeing the projects/hearing about Internet archive
• Eugene - appreciated hearing about epistemology, would like to see local-inferencing (diffusion, etc), interested what is possible in quantized, interested in nix as an agentic playground
• anon x 3 - reproducable builds using GUIX for agents
• PJ - first time @ NB, enjoying the vibes, will be back!
• Alex - enjoying hearing about the projects, interested in distribued cryptography.
• Erik - likes seeing demos, would like to see more as a way of lesson,s
• Bjorn - glad Elan's demo went well
• Dave - +1,glad epistemic approach is working
• TJ - likes having presentations, and that Noisebridge has grafna/monitoring/visibility up
• Elan - hot takes, also wants to see more demos, and post-quantum discussions

• [Issue]

For next time

Readings & Exercises

• Readings
• Exercises

Join online

• Try it yourself!
  • Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra