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Tuesday, 26 May 2026

  • Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

    Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

    Posted on May 26, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    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 three other things (KB articles, a curated lessons doc, ingested ZertoPublic example scripts) that needed fixing while I was in there.
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  • AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

    AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

    Posted on May 22, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    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 thing as an MCP server so an AI crop-advisor chat can see live local prices.
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  • My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

    My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

    Posted on May 20, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    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 KB archive. This post covers what it does, how to wire it up to your client of choice, and how I went from a standard dense RAG to a reranked one that's ~3× more…
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  • Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

    Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

    Posted on May 11, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    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 the recovery VMs to make sure they actually came up — you know the story. Zerto fires your script, the script does some PowerShell, and…
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  • Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

    Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

    Posted on January 23, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    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 as integrating Keycloak with other identity providers like LDAP OIDC and SAML. But sometimes the IT gods just aren’t smiling when folks are trying to…
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  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    Posted on April 28, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    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. If you havent read part 1 check it out here, but the TLDR recap is: consistency is the name of the game. I need to…
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  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    Posted on March 16, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    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 university. Computers were a huge interest as well and sometimes those two priorities conflicted when I was growing up. I cannot even count the times…
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  • Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Posted on October 9, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    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 in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious when performed manually. However, automating the process reduces errors, enhances security, and saves time. In…
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  • A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    Posted on September 12, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    The back story… Recently I replaced an electric water heater with a manufactured date from 1992. You might be asking yourself how the hell a water heater survived that long to begin with. Long story short, my wife and I purchased a farm which belonged to my great-grandparents in 2021. They had passed about 15…
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  • DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    Posted on August 30, 2024 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments
    In today’s digital world, precise timekeeping is more important than ever. From securing financial transactions to managing networks, accurate time synchronization ensures that all devices are on the same page. This is where the Network Time Protocol (NTP) comes into play. NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network,…
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Turbonomic Announces New Free Observability Tool to Give Developers Full-Stack Context for Microservice Applications

Turbonomic Announces New Free Observability Tool to Give Developers Full-Stack Context for Microservice Applications

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Available Today for Download, Company Will Showcase New Offering at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 BOSTON – November 18, 2019 – Turbonomic, the leader in Application Resource Management, today announced details of its presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North…
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Making Kubernetes Easier with DigitalOcean Container Registry and 1-Click Apps

Making Kubernetes Easier with DigitalOcean Container Registry and 1-Click Apps

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
November 19th 2019 – San Diego – Let’s be honest: Kubernetes is complicated. And since we’re obsessed with simplifying the developer experience, we continually ask ourselves: How do we make Kubernetes easier? It’s with this in mind that we’re pleased…
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Portworx enters enterprise backup market with point-and-click Kubernetes backup solution that integrates with Portworx Enterprise and top cloud block storage solutions like Amazon, Google, and Azure

Portworx enters enterprise backup market with point-and-click Kubernetes backup solution that integrates with Portworx Enterprise and top cloud block storage solutions like Amazon, Google, and Azure

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Company Launches Automated Capacity Management Product to Deliver on Cloud’s Promise to “Only Pay for What You Use”
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MayaData boosts OpenEBS Kubernetes data performance with the contribution of MayaStor, announces v 1.4 & more at KubeCon

MayaData boosts OpenEBS Kubernetes data performance with the contribution of MayaStor, announces v 1.4 & more at KubeCon

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
OpenEBS, the leading Container Attached Storage (CAS) solution for Kubernetes, announced today the inclusion of MayaStor from MayaData, increasing the performance while using Kubernetes as a data plane with OpenEBS by 4-5x or more depending on workload, with tested results…
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Trilio Data Announces Technical Preview of TrilioVault for Kubernetes

Trilio Data Announces Technical Preview of TrilioVault for Kubernetes

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Platform leverages technical and market success in backup/recovery for Hybrid Clouds to enable application resiliency and agility of container-based workloads.
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Containous Unveils New Ambassador Program to Reward and Support Traefik Community Members

Containous Unveils New Ambassador Program to Reward and Support Traefik Community Members

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Announced at KubeCon, Containous’ Traefik Ambassador Program recognizes contributor efforts that advance the popular open source cloud-native edge router
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StorageOS Releases Latest Version of Cloud Native Storage Solution

StorageOS Releases Latest Version of Cloud Native Storage Solution

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
New features include StorageOS Data Locality for improved performance and StorageOS Shared File for increased adoption of containerization
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New Innovation from Snyk Puts Container Security in the Hands of Developers

New Innovation from Snyk Puts Container Security in the Hands of Developers

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Snyk Container brings a developer-first approach to finding and fixing container and Kubernetes workload vulnerabilities throughout the SDLC
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Everything you need to know about Zerto’s VAIO Announcement

Everything you need to know about Zerto’s VAIO Announcement

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Zerto previews it VAIO filter at VMWorld 2019 Zerto’s Rob Strechay and VMware’s Paul Turner presented to a packed crowd, including many current Zerto customers, all eager to learn about the new IO filtering option. Aside from the presentation, Zerto…
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Geek stuff worth grabbing on #PrimeDay

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Or grab them any other day… I didn’t wait till PrimeDay. It’s been a while since I blogged about my addiction to geek toys from Amazon, so here is an update on some of the cool stuff I’ve picked up…
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