Oops, I got mad and wrote a bonus blog post this week. Maybe ignore it if you also don't want to get mad. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/stop-accus...

This week's blog post is about the work that my students at Harvey Mudd College did to turn SimKube into a reinforcement learning arena for AI agents! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/simarena-a...

ACRL is turning 3, and drmorr is turning an age greater than 3!!! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/acrl-is-tu...

This week's post is about all the ways that bare Kubernetes pods are weird. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/bare-pods-... #kubernetes #k8s #simkube

I have a quick post about all the ways that bare pods are weird in Kubernetes; currently available for paid subscribers, will open to free subscribers next week! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/bare-pods-... #kubernetes #k8s #simkube

Today's blog post is about all the techniques I can think of to mock Rust code: blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/all-the-wa... #rustlang #testing #software

In case you missed it, this is my SRECon recap, featuring all of my favorite talks! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/srecon-202...

It's new content Monday! My article about SKEL (the SimKube Expression Language) is now available and all you PLT nerds can check it out. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/introducin... #simkube #kubernetes #plt

This talk features my postmortem of the worst incident I've ever dealt with in production! Excited to get to finally check out the talk.

Simulation testing before upgrades beats changelog roulette every time, though honestly most teams still just wing it and hope the canary doesn't explode.

Are you bored on a Friday afternoon? My SRECon talk, "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation" is now up on YouTube. Go watch it! Feels very timely since Kubernetes (checks notes) 1.36 was just released! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk_P... #srecon #kubernetes #simkube

This week's blog post is talking about some programming language design with SimKube.... I know there are some PLT nerds out there, don't make me @ you! Available to paid subscribers this week, free for everyone next week. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/introducin... #simkube #skel #kubernetes #plt

This week's blog post is from my coworker Ian, talking about ACRL's new offerings on the AWS Marketplace! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/boy-ami-gl... #simkube #kubernetes #github #cicd

Btw, CFP for kubecon NA is open. Deadline is May 31st. I have never been on the committee, but I have a good track record of getting talks in, and I have a standing offer to review your proposal if you want or need help with it*. Send me a DM! events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-clou... #kubecon

Two new blog posts today! First is the (now public) transcript from my SRECon talk: "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes upgrades with simulation" blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/stop-readi... #srecon #kubernetes #k8s

This week's blog post, which is a recap of my SRECon talk from last week, is now available for paid subscribers only, and will be available for free to the general public next Monday! Check it out if you want. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/stop-readi... #kubernetes #srecon #simkube

Ok that's over. Lots of great questions and interaction! My slides and other materials are up on GitHub if you want to know more :) github.com/acrlabs/srec... #srecon

My talk at SRECon is in two hours! Come check it out and learn how simulation can help you with your Kubernetes upgrades! #srecon #kubernetes

SRECon first impressions: it is wet. Why is it wet. In Seattle??? In March????? Anyways, as normal I'm going to liveblog along on Mastodon, follow along if you want! hachyderm.io/@drmorr #srecon

SRECon first impressions: it is wet. Why is it wet. In Seattle??? In March????? Anyways, as normal I'm going to liveblob along on Mastodon (sorry not sorry, I tried the "liveblog on two platforms at once" thing and it's too hard), follow along if you want! hachyderm.io/@drmorr #srecon

I know all the cool kids are at KubeCon EU this week, but _this_ cool kid is gonna be at SRECon in Seattle! I'm giving a talk: "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation" on Wednesday at 11:55-12:40. Come find me and say hi! Would love to chat. #srecon

Do you want to read a 4,000-word architecture diagram detailing everything you need to run a single Kubernetes pod? Sure you do! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/everything... #kubernetes #k8s

The OOM metrics situation is genuinely frustrating. Half the time you're debugging memory issues with metrics that don't tell the actual story.

In today's blog post I a) recap my epic rant about OOM metrics from last week, and b) complain about other weird things I learned about Kubernetes recently. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/three-subt... #kubernetes #k8s #devops

In today's blog post, I complain about version control systems. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/frustratio... #git #jj #software

A Quick Update about the Blog, aka, wouldn't you like to pay money to read more about SimKube? 😂 blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/quick-upda...

I would love to get more paid subscribers to my blog. As I've said before, the income from my blog isn't how I make a living---but it does help in for sending me to conferences, and conferences are my best source for new leads and sales opportunities. blog.appliedcomputing.io/subscribe

Very excited that I'll be speaking at SRECon in Seattle this year! My talk title is "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation" (naturally), and I'm speaking on Wednesday March 25 at 11:55. See the full program here! www.usenix.org/conference/s...

I almost think I hate Monday meetings more than Friday meetings, tbh.

Just typo'ed `Dorkerfile` and I'm pretty sure that is actually correct

OK it's friday, time for the ultimate bikeshedding, aka, fixing my Makefiles. Basically a task you can spend ENDLESS amounts of time on and still not be done.

ACRL's first public postmortem is now available for free subscribers :P Learn more about how a race condition between cert-manager, the SimKube controller, and a mutating webhook configuration took down our (currently unavailable to the public) CI runner! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/postmortem...

cargo clippy is one of the best linting tools I've ever worked with. "It looks like you're trying to write a Rust program, and you fucking suck at it. Try doing it this way instead!"

Who's excited for ACRL's first public postmortem next Monday? (Or tomorrow if you're a premium subscriber :P)

hi my name is david i'm doing cursèd shit with rust AMA

Holy moly cross-compiling with qemu is slow as molasses! ACRL gonna need some ARM runners.

My KubeCon recap blog post just went live! And you can see the highlights reel video from our "fit in the kube" challenge! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/kubecon-re... #kubernetes #kubecon

This week has been recursive rabbit hole week. I'm so far down these rabbit holes even the rabbits are wondering where I've gone.

Welp, it finally happened. ACRL is now the proud (?????) owner of two (2) AWS accounts.

These are not serious people.

How my morning is going: - I want to stop shuffling static IAM credentials everywhere, that seems bad - Oh hey, AWS has IAM Roles Anywhere based on PKI - I need to set up a private CA, that's reasonable - HOLY FUCK IT COSTS $400/MONTH TO RUN A PRIVATE CA ON AWS? - Ok I wonder how I create my own CA

In case you were wondering what I was up to at KubeCon, it was incredibly important content marketing. youtube.com/shorts/ZDlQz... Looking forward to seeing you all next year for "Can U Fit In The Kube 2"!!!! #kubecon #kubernetes #funny #simkube #k8s #fitinthekube

And that's all, folks! See you next year, back in SLC! #kubernetes #kubecon

Last talk of the conference (for me): "Evolving Kubernetes Scheduling" by Eric Tune & Wojciech Tyczyński at Google. #kubernetes #kubecon #scheduling

Alright, next up is "Evicted! All the Ways Kubernetes Kills Your Pods (and How To Avoid Them)" by Ahmet Alp Balkan (of kubectx/kubens fame). This talk is 🔥 #kubecon #kubernetes

ACRL was a sponsor for the Dan Kohn travel scholarship for underrepresented or marginalized groups at KubeCon this year -- I'm heading over to chat with some of the scholarship recipients! #kubecon #kubernetes

Major props to the two CNCF folks who were high-fiving every single attendee as they walked in this morning! #kubecon

If you see me at #kubecon I have a stack of Nova stickers if you want a few.

For today of you who are curious about how many people fit in the kube, enjoy this linkedin screenshot #kubecon #kubernetes

I'm at "From Panic To Peace: Making K8s Controller Observability Suck Less" by Cat Morris & Derik Evangelista, Syntassa Lots of great tips for writing Kubernetes controllers/operators. #kubernetes #kubecon