Zero Overhead

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never kept a blog. Every time I considered it, the overhead argument won: a platform to maintain, a hosting bill, and posts that would have to be written from scratch. Not worth it.

Two things changed this year, so the math finally works.

Who I am

I’m David Bensoussan, a software engineer. Most of what I build outside work lives in one monorepo: the apps, the infrastructure that runs them, and the CI in between. The infrastructure part is a homelab — two second-hand Debian machines running about 45 services: photos, media, documents, monitoring, an LLM server on an old GPU, and the CI runners themselves. The full topology and progress log is at homelab.bensoussan.de if you want the inventory. Everything is provisioned with Ansible, and every significant decision gets written down.

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Zero Overhead

Who I am