Technology & exploration

Learning through practical implementation.

Technology is an important part of how SpearLabs works. We continuously explore new tools, architectures and approaches through practical implementation, experimentation and internal projects.

Availability note

Some technologies and projects described here represent experimentation, internal development or future product exploration and are not necessarily customer-facing services.

Technology foundation

Built and operated in practice.

These areas reflect hands-on technical work. They are not a product catalogue or a list of promised commercial capabilities.

Infrastructure

  • Linux servers
  • Proxmox virtualization
  • Virtual machines and containers
  • Storage and backup systems
  • Reverse proxies and application hosting

Networking

  • pfSense and firewalling
  • OpenVPN
  • DNS and Cloudflare DNS
  • Network segmentation
  • VPN-based administration

Software platforms

  • GitLab CE
  • XWiki
  • ERPNext / Frappe
  • Mailcow
  • Other self-hosted applications

Areas of exploration

Technologies under active consideration.

Status labels make the distinction between exploration, development and public availability explicit.

Exploring

Automation & operations

Infrastructure automation, deployment practices, logging and observability with tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter, cAdvisor and Loki.

Exploring

Business platforms

ERPNext and Frappe for ERP, CRM, workflow automation, custom applications and integrations.

Exploring

Artificial intelligence

Locally hosted language models, model serving, embeddings and resource-efficient AI infrastructure.