Published May 12, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. The simplicity of spinning up containers in Docker is one of home lab's few simplicites. Find a service that looks interesting, pull the image, write a quick Compose file or a docker run command, publish a port, hit the web UI in a browser. It takes five minutes to go from an idea to a running service .…