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Trabant Systems · IFA Trabant Five production watchdogs, a stable reference node and the transition from a working installation to a reproducible system. This note continues the production testing documented in IFA Trabant: A Second […]
This note continues the production testing documented in IFA Trabant: Extended Production Test and Development Roadmap. The previous test concentrated primarily on decision behaviour. During an 87-hour production monitoring window, IFA Trabant recorded three complete […]
A DDR Lab research project examining whether functional legacy systems can remain operational through modern gateway architectures. Project status: Proposed Research series: Part I — Research Rationale Implementation status: No experimental implementation has yet been […]
This article continues the IFA Trabant production experiment documented in IFA Trabant: What Production Taught Us About Automated Failover IFA Trabant was developed to answer a narrow operational question: if a legitimate website remains healthy […]
This article continues the experiment documented in Building a Cloudflare Failover Watchdog on a 2 GB Linux Laptop. The original article describes the design, implementation and initial testing of the watchdog. This follow-up begins with […]
Abstract A website becomes unreachable from part of the Internet while its origin server remains fully operational. The immediate workaround may be simple: bypass the affected proxy infrastructure and expose the origin directly. Automating that […]
DDR Lab field test: from a 2 GB antiX machine to a complete Linux legal workstation Table of Contents First test: ChatGPT with 2 GB of RAM Second test: Linux Trabant 1.1 A legal workstation […]
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