The Curious Engineer

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Jeremy Theocharis

theocharis.dev/blog

Writing on technology, engineering, and whatever else is on my mind.

DevOps / SRE / infrastructureNetworkingEmbedded / microcontrollersDatabases

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29 from 6 Jul 2021 to 24 Sep 2026
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monthly (10 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 8

  1. The Only Reliable Way to Control Anything Is a Loop
  2. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.
  3. Why we should get rid of average CPU utilization
  4. Things a Veterinarian Told Me on a Hike
  5. Agent Teams are a Meeseeks Box
  6. What We Do At UMH
  7. We built what we wished existed. €5M to double down.
  8. How I Write

2025 6

  1. All You Need is Loops (and Humans)
  2. I Was Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn and All I Got Was 1.50 EUR
  3. Downsampling in Industrial IoT: From Dead-Band to Swinging Door Trending
  4. AI In Manufacturing Is A Dumpster Fire
  5. What is MQTT? Why Most MQTT Explanations Suck—and Our Attempt to Fix Them
  6. The algorithmic framework for writing good technical articles

2024 6

  1. AWS and Azure are At Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
  2. Why Most Manufacturing Software Sucks - and What We Do Differently at UMH
  3. Cloud-Native Technologies on the Edge in Manufacturing
  4. Industrial IoT Visualization: Why United Manufacturing Hub Chose Grafana
  5. Opinion: OPC UA is the Peak of All That Is Wrong in Manufacturing
  6. The Unified Namespace as the Strongest Architectural Proposal for Industry 4.0

2023 5

  1. Integrating the Unified Namespace into Your Enterprise Architecture: An Architect's Guide
  2. The High Compression Deception: A Reality Check on Historians vs Open-Source Databases
  3. Why designing your own IT / OT infrastructure is harder than you might think - 10 Pitfalls and how to avoid them
  4. Flatcar as the operating system of the Industrial IoT
  5. Comparing MQTT Brokers for the Industrial IoT

2022 2

  1. Historians vs Open-Source databases - which is better?
  2. Tools & Techniques for scalable data processing in Industrial IoT

2021 2

  1. Node-RED in Industrial IoT: A Growing Standard
  2. Why we chose TimescaleDB over InfluxDB