Payments Fraud Detection: Real-Time Scoring With Automated Retraining on Kubernetes

A synthetic payments platform that scores every transaction for fraud in real time, with training, registry, serving, monitoring, and alert-driven retraining automated end to end on my homelab. Including the drill where the traffic drifted and nobody touched anything.

September 30, 2026 · 7 min · Josh Strebeck

Homelab Configuration: GitOps on Talos Kubernetes with Argo CD

Everything my homelab cluster runs is declared in one repository and delivered by Argo CD. Merging to main is the deployment. This is how the platform is built, how the GitOps workflow is guarded, and what runs on top of it.

January 18, 2026 · 7 min · Josh Strebeck