Last week I finally started building the home lab I have been thinking about for the better part of 15 years. It took a lot of deliberations, justifying why I need one, what makes sense and what does not, make a decision, just to finally have the end result quietly humming in my hallway while I come up with the right workloads to make it melt. This is the first part of a series of blog posts on the building process, challenges, and decisions along the way.