Episode 223:48
The Mac Mini That Runs Everything
The automation hub session: one desk machine orchestrating deploys, content, agents, and the whole portfolio.
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Show Notes
Segments
- 00:00 — The unglamorous truth: the empire runs on a desk computer.
- 11:30 — What it orchestrates: deploys, content pipelines, agent sessions, scheduled jobs.
- 24:45 — Reliability at home-lab scale: disk space, restarts, and the art of boring uptime.
- 35:50 — When to graduate to cloud — and why later than you think.
Key takeaways
- Infrastructure you can touch is infrastructure you understand.
- The bottleneck is never the hardware; it is the orchestration discipline.
- Run local until the cost of an outage exceeds the cost of the cloud bill.