Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer
Running a public Zerto Docs MCP server taught me the ceiling of dense-only retrieval. This is the story of finding it, fixing it with BM25 + RRF + reranker, and…
Author: Justin Paul
AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers
How I built a self-hosted grain-marketing dashboard for my farm — scraping local cash bids, computing basis against CBOT, summarizing the day with a guard-railed LLM, and exposing the whole…
My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions
A hosted MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and other LLM clients answer Zerto questions using the actual help.zerto.com docs — 21,000 pages across 360+ bundles plus the entire…
Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)
If you’ve ever tried to wire a Zerto pre/post script to “go do something real” on a Windows host — update DNS, kick a Slack channel, restart a service, ping…
I Built an Entire Company Out of AI Agents – Part 1
*This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This post covers how V4D was built, why I decided to staff it with AI employees, and what the “company” looks like…
Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication
Keycloak became the cornerstone of the Zerto appliance back in 10.0 (wow, it’s been almost 5 years!) and over that time we have tried to simplify getting started, as well…
DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2
I have good news and great news: The good news is that all my corn is in the ground! The great news is that my DIY fertilizer monitor preformed amazingly.…
BREAKING: Broadcom Announces Radical U-Turn on VMware Pricing
In a shocking turn of events, Broadcom has announced that it will be reversing all of the pricing changes implemented since its acquisition of VMware in 2023. That’s right, folks,…
DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1
Agriculture has been part of my life forever. I grew up on a farm and worked for my grandpa and dad until I was old enough to go off to…
Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto
Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used…