$ Carl du Preez

DevOps engineer & occasional blogger

What I Learned Writing a 200-Line Server Monitor

September 15, 2026 · Carl du Preez

I had a machine misbehaving. Nothing dramatic, just the kind of thing that ruins an afternoon: it would slow to a crawl, stay there for a while, and be perfectly fine again by the time I was looking at it. Task Manager tells you what is happening right now. It tells you nothing about what […]

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Why I’m Starting This Blog

September 14, 2026 · Carl du Preez

I’m Carl — a DevOps engineer with 8+ years in IT, currently working on infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and databases by day. This site has had a CV sitting on it for a while now, and honestly, a CV only tells you what I’ve done. It doesn’t tell you how I think, what I’m curious about, […]

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