Best Homelab Podcasts (2025)

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I just want to code (News) 7:23

16h ago7:23

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Zach Bellay tells us about the devil and the angel on his shoulders, Pete Koomen thinks today’s AI apps are like horseless carriages, Hyperwood is an open source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats, Scott Antipa agrees with YAGNI but adds YAGRI & Antony Henao debunks three common myths that get engineers stuck. View the newslette…

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Hello, Matworld! (Friends) 1:15:10

4d ago1:15:10

1:15:10

Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bo…

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Make sales not features (Interview) 1:08:10

6d ago1:08:10

1:08:10

Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has learned a lot since he first enter…

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Fresh beats for endless flow state (News) 9:19

8d ago9:19

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We drop our fourth Changelog Beats album, Dex Horthy proposes the 12-factor AI agent, Thorsten Ball takes us step-by-step through building a coding agent, Zachary Huang builds an LLM framework in 100 lines of code & Philip Laine’s Spegel project gets unknowingly forked by Microsoft. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1…

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#095 - Event Season Kickoff: NVIDIA GTC, KubeCon, and Dutch VMUG with Johan van Amersfoort 37:22

8d ago37:22

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⁠For this episode I decided to invite Johan van Amersfoort to discuss with us his experiences at NVIDIA GTC, Kubecon London, and of course the Dutch VMUG. Or should we say, the start of event season? Johan shared countless of updates and videos on LinkedIn, make sure to check those out while you are at it! Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shar…

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Vibing into the vibe (Friends) 1:31:28

11d ago1:31:28

1:31:28

Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minute…

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Making DNSimple (Interview) 1:46:43

13d ago1:46:43

1:46:43

Anthony Eden, Founder & CEO of DNSimple, joins the show to talk about the world of managed hosting for DNS and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out ther…

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Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (News) 8:45

15d ago8:45

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Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language. View the newsletter Join the …

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Proud pod parents (Friends) 1:39:53

17d ago1:39:53

1:39:53

Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations? Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Heroku – …

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The era of durable execution (Interview) 1:40:03

19d ago1:40:03

1:40:03

Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they …

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Ed and Stefano Unleashed LIVE 1:00:15

21d ago1:00:15

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In this LIVE episode, Ed and Stefano take a deep dive into the Unraid 7.10 Beta, unpacking exciting new features like built-in Wi-Fi support, ZFS pools, improved GPU management, and advanced dashboard customization. They discuss the importance of responsive web design for mobile access and how to manage multiple Unraid servers with custom tabs. The…

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The AI 2027 scenario (News) 9:04

22d ago9:04

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Daniel Kokotajlo and the AI Futures Project lays out a potential scenario of superhuman AI’s impact, Liam ERD generates beautiful, interactive ER diagrams from your database, Mozilla takes on Gmail with “Thundermail”, algernon explains why grepping remains terrible & Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira rans on the insanity of being a software engineer. View …

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#094 - Discussing SAP HANA support for vSAN ESA 8.x with Erik Rieger! 45:46

22d ago45:46

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Recently Broadcom announced that vSAN ESA support for SAP HANA was introduced. Erik Rieger is Broadcom's Principal SAP Global Technical Alliance Manager and Architect, and as such I invited him on the show to go over what this actually means, and why this is important for customers! For more details make sure to check: SAP note 3406060 – SAP HANA o…

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Unraid March Madness 6:05

25d ago6:05

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Mark your Calendars for Ed & Stefano Unleashed – Live Show This Saturday, April 5 Join us at 9 AM CDT for a live episode of Ed & Stefano Unleashed — your go-to show for self-hosting talk, tech news, community Q&A, and plenty of fun. Watch it live or catch the replay! Unraid OS 7.1 Beta Series Has Launched The Unraid 7.1 public beta brings major imp…

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Turn him into a walrus (Friends) 1:10:08

25d ago1:10:08

1:10:08

Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli…and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Augment Code – Developer AI that uses deep understanding of your large codebase a…

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The 1000x faster financial database (Interview) 1:40:28

27d ago1:40:28

1:40:28

In July of 2020, Joran Dirk Greef stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing. This sent him on a path that ended with TigerBeetle, a redesigned distributed database for financial transactions that yielded three orders of magnitude faster OLTP performance over the usual (general-purpose) …

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The idealization of farming by tech (News) 8:14

29d ago8:14

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Theodore Morley wonders why tech workers so frequently point our wanderlust toward hands-on trades, Eduardo Bouças explains why he’s lost confidence in Vercel’s handling of Next.js, “xan” is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell, Pawel Brodzinski takes us back to Kanban’s roots & Sergey Tselovalnikov weig…

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Of agents & agency (Friends) 1:37:53

1M ago1:37:53

1:37:53

Long-time JS Party panelist Amal Hussein joins Jerod to catch up on her career path, to opine on the viability agentic coding, to feel all the feelings that AI brings out of us as developers, and to share something new in her life that changes everything. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the a…

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Leading leaders who lead engineers (remastered) (Interview) 1:14:21

1M ago1:14:21

1:14:21

This week we’re bringing you a remaster of our epic 2021interview with Lara Hogan – author of Resilient Management and management coach / trainer for the tech industry. The majority of our conversation focuses on the four primary hats leaders and managers end up wearing; mentoring, coaching, sponsoring, and delivering feedback. We also talk about k…

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Revenge of the junior developer (News) 8:14

1M ago8:14

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Steve Yegge’s latest rant about the future of “coding”, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, Hillel Wayne makes the case for Verification-First Development, Gerd Zellweger experienced lots of pain setting up GitHub Actions & Cascii is a web-based ASCII diagram builder. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members …

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#093 - Best practices for Latency Sensitive Workloads featuring Mark A! 36:10

1M ago36:10

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Recently a new white paper was released on the topic of latency-sensitive workloads. I invited Mark Achtemichuck (X, LinkedIn) to the show to go over the various recommendations and best practices. Mark highlight many important configuration settings, and also recommends everyone to not only read the white paper, but also the vSphere 8 performance …

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Here's my Siri theory (Friends) 2:02:55

1M ago2:02:55

2:02:55

Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple’s Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets “any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury.” Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the a…

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Securing ecommerce: "It's complicated" (Interview) 1:05:09

1M ago1:05:09

1:05:09

Ilya Grigorik and his team at Shopify has been hard at work securing ecommerce checkouts from sophisticated news attacks (such as digital skimming) and he’s here to share all the technical intricacies and far-reaching implications of this work. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappea…

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Our interfaces have lost their senses (News) 6:47

1M ago6:47

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Amelia Wattenberger bemoans the computer’s great flattening, the Learnk8s team lets you manage your cluster from a spreadsheet, Jan Swist gets a surprising response from Cursor, the French and German governments team up for an open source Notion alternative & XPipe lets you access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. View the …

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Friends on the frontend (Friends) 1:47:30

2M ago1:47:30

1:47:30

Adam’s friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear…

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Reaching industrial economies of scale (Interview) 1:44:49

2M ago1:44:49

1:44:49

Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code S…

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#716 - Cyber Recovery and Business Continuity w/Tarisio Moraes

2M ago

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All the ins and outs for managing your recovery strategy with Tarisio Moraes, knowing failure modes and plans for recovery based on VMware's offerings.By vmware

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Everyone is talking about MCP (News) 9:08

2M ago9:08

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Vibe coding is the new vibe, AI engineers are all taking about MCP, Tom Usher wants you to kill your algorithmic feeds, Curiositry shares his troubleshooting expertise, Nikola Ðuza thinks we should keep blogging for the LLMs & James Stanier answers the question, should managers still code? View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members…

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#092 - Introducing Data Services Manager 2.2 featuring Cormac Hogan 20:35

2M ago20:35

20:35

Recently VMware Data Services Manager 2.2 was released, so I had to invite my good friend Cormac Hogan to discuss all the enhancements we introduced to an already great product. Of course, we also discussed the Tech Preview for the Object Storage Service, which enables you to deploy MinIO at scale! Disclaimer: The thoughts and opinions shared in th…

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Ed and Stefano Unleashed: The Big Premiere! 1:35:30

2M ago1:35:30

1:35:30

Welcome to the premiere episode of Ed and Stefano Unleashed! 🚀 Your favorite homelab creators, Ed @SpaceinvaderOne and Stefano @SPXLabs are diving deep into the world of Unraid, self-hosting, AI, GPUs, gaming, and more—with unfiltered takes and plenty of laughs along the way. Join us live for the next show! Chapters 00:00 Introducing the Ed and Ste…

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Unraid February Digest 2025 4:51

2M ago4:51

4:51

@SPXLabs is back for another addition of the Unraid Digest for February 20205 with updates on: Unraid 7.0.1 Unraid Connect API & Notification System Overhaul Big News re: @SpaceinvaderOne joining the Unraid team full time! And much, much more here: https://newsletter.unraid.net/p/unraid-february-digest-b1b7 Send us a text Other Ways to Connect with…

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Friendly Feud: JS Party Edition (Friends) 1:12:34

2M ago1:12:34

1:12:34

Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol’ survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y’all best. Survey says! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Augment Code – Developer AI …

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Antirez returns to Redis! (Interview) 1:33:59

2M ago1:33:59

1:33:59

Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what’s going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector embeddings in Redis, and some …

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JavaScript fatigue strikes back (News) 8:29

2M ago8:29

8:29

Allen Pike on the JavaScript ecosystem after a decade away, Lars Wirzenius was there at the birth of Linux, Piotr Migdał archives things in Markdown, Jacob Stopak is gamifying Git with Devlands & Juan Diego Rodríguez runs down how CSS functions (will) work. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode be…

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Kaizen! Pipely goes BAM (Friends) 1:58:41

2M ago1:58:41

1:58:41

It’s Kaizen 18! Can you believe it? We discuss the recent Fly.io outage, some little features we’ve added since our last Kaizen, our new video-first production, and of course, catch up on all things Pipely! Oh, and Gerhard surprises us (once again). BAM! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ad…

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Building for application developers (Interview) 1:52:33

2M ago1:52:33

1:52:33

Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 4 minute…

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#715 - vExpert Aweards 2025, HomeLab Hardware for VCF and VMUG Advantage 59:50

2M ago59:50

59:50

Eric, Corey and Bob discuss the Launch of the VMUG advantage VCF labs, the Hardware needed and of Course vExperts. If you want to see the hardware SPECs for you NUCs, look here: https://fojta.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/gmktec-k8-plus-vsphere-mini-lab/By vmware

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AI killed the tech interview. Now what? (News) 6:23

2M ago6:23

6:23

Kane Narraway thinks through the radical change AI tools have brought to the technical interview process, Rhys Kentish built an app that makes him touch grass, Microsoft announced their progress on quantum computing, Chris Horsley learns about software estimations by yak shaving a washing machine install & Andreas Gohr built StumbleUpon for the Ind…

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#091 - Discussing performance with Ravi Soundararajan 47:10

2M ago47:10

47:10

In episode 091 of the Unexplored Territory Podcast we have Ravi Soundararajan as a guest to discuss all things performance. There's a reason Ravi's name on X is "vCenterPerfGuy". Ravi has been involved in performance troubleshooting and engineering for the longest time, and shares his insights in some of the most recent findings with regards to vSp…

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Change my mind (Friends) 1:56:32

2M ago1:56:32

1:56:32

Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl’s post on development topics he’s changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – The low-code p…

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Unraid 7 Full Walkthrough & New Features Breakdown 1:12:41

2M ago1:12:41

1:12:41

Grab yourself a coffee, tea, or beer 🍻 and get ready to dive deep into everything new in Unraid 7! This update brings massive changes, including no more mandatory Unraid array, ZFS improvements, a redesigned dashboard and other UI enhancements, and big upgrades to Docker & VM support! Whether you're upgrading or setting up fresh, this guide has you…

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Programming with LLMs (Interview) 1:31:22

2M ago1:31:22

1:31:22

For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully you will too! Join the discussi…

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AI is stifling tech adoption (News) 8:06

2M ago8:06

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Declan Chidlow proposes that AI is stifling tech adoption, Ariel Salminen shares 17 pieces of advice she’s learned about leading successful product teams, Benj Edwards tells the story of WikiTok, the React team sunsets Create React App & Ruben Schade says boring tech is mature, not old. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members su…

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Discovering discovery coding (Friends) 1:53:56

2M ago1:53:56

1:53:56

Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it’s at. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Temporal – Build invincible ap…

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Fostering open source culture (Interview) 1:24:13

2M ago1:24:13

1:24:13

Arun Gupta is back, this time with his latest book in hand titled “Fostering Open Source Culture” to share his wisdom and experiences of fostering open source culture. BTW you can use the code OSCULTURE20 to get 20% off (both print and e-book). Use this link and enjoy. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because t…

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#714 - Cloud Partners Adapt to VCF w/ Girish Manmakar

3M ago

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Tech is supposed to make our lives easier (News) 8:25

3M ago8:25

8:25

Bill Maher excoriates the software industry for making our lives more difficult, two professors from the University of Washington put together a curriculum to help us manage life in the ChatGPT world, Daniel Delaney thinks deeply on chat as a dev tool UI, Benedict Evans explores our assumptions that computers be ‘correct’ & the Thoughtbot team writ…

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The state of homelab tech (2025) (Friends) 2:05:15

3M ago2:05:15

2:05:15

Techno Tim joins Adam to catch up on the state of Homelab for 2025, the state of AI at home and on-prem (AI Homelab) and where that’s heading, building a creator PC, choosing the parts for your build, GPU availability, Windows being user hostile, and why Tim is happy to be using Windows, Mac AND Linux. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8…

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Unraid January DIgest: Optimize and Secure Your Server with Unraid 7 6:38

3M ago6:38

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We're back with our first monthly update for 2025! @SPXLabs is here breaking down all the latest news, including: Unraid 7 Stable Release: See what's new! Unraid 6.12.15 Release A Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. All users are strongly encouraged to update to Unraid 7.0.0 or 6.12.15. Learn More New Unraid Patch Plugin: This official Unraid plu…

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#713 - Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud Foundation w/Deji Akomolafe 1:03:26

3M ago1:03:26

1:03:26

Topic: Disaster Recovery for MS SQL Server Workloads in VMware Cloud FoundationThe Importance of a Reliable Disaster Recovery Plan"Deji, disaster recovery (DR) planning is often overlooked until an actual disaster occurs. Why is it particularly crucial for MS SQL Server workloads, and what are the most common mistakes enterprises make when it comes…

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