140: When Upgrades Go Wrong
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Alex dives into the perils of upgrading and migrating critical infrastructure—uncovering embarrassing pitfalls and hard-won lessons along the way. Meanwhile, Chris takes his audiobook obsession to the next level, showcasing a couple self-hosted projects that are very ambitious.

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• beszel) — Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.
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