Engineering blog
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Chronological engineering notes and product deep dives—separate from our longer Articles and product Solutions pages. Migrated from the ServiceRadar docs blog.
August 7, 2026
Michael Freeman
Inside ServiceRadar's Durable Edge Record Protocol
How we replaced transport-shaped payloads with durable, versioned, self-describing records that are six times smaller on the wire and safe the moment they are acknowledged.
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August 5, 2026
Michael Freeman
Who Owns This Public IP? Kubernetes VIP Inventory for Flow Investigations
NetFlow to a MetalLB or Gateway VIP is not a host conversation. How ServiceRadar maps public IP:port to Service, Gateway API route, and backend pods—without giving host agents the Kubernetes API.
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January 24, 2026
Michael Freeman
Beyond Scripts: A Capability-Based Plugin System for Edge Agents
How we implemented a secure, capability-based plugin system in the ServiceRadar agent using Wasm and wazero.
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December 16, 2025
Michael Freeman
From Fragmented to Fluid: Simplifying ServiceRadar with Elixir, Rust, and CloudNativePG
How we simplified ServiceRadar with Phoenix LiveView, SRQL, and a unified Postgres stack.
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October 22, 2025
Michael Freeman
From 19 Hours to Under a Second: Building a Blazing-Fast TCP Scanner in Go
How ServiceRadar turned a 19-hour TCP discovery job into a sub-second SYN scan with raw sockets, BPF, and Go assembly.
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March 26, 2025
Michael Freeman
Monitoring Your Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro with ServiceRadar's SNMP Poller
Enable SNMP on a UniFi Dream Machine Pro, find the WAN OID, and poll bandwidth metrics with ServiceRadar.
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March 24, 2025
Michael Freeman
Welcome to the ServiceRadar Blog
Launching the ServiceRadar engineering blog—updates, tutorials, and deep dives on distributed network monitoring.
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