My current watchlist #1
This time, a video rabbit hole exploring Kubernetes scaling, scheduling, bin-packing, and resource utilization.
The (capacity) struggle is real, part 3: bin-packing and capacity utilization
In Part 3, I look at capacity utilization, bin-packing, cgroups, Kubernetes scheduling, and how Descheduler and Cluster Autoscaler can work together to make better use of the infrastructure we already have.
The (capacity) struggle is real, part 2: designing for capacity flexibility
In Part 2, I look at rightsizing, instance flexibility, scheduling, OOC handling, graceful degradation, and how applications and platforms can work together to make more of the available capacity actually usable.
The (capacity) struggle is real, part 1: the cloud isn't infinite
Cloud capacity isn't "infinite" anymore. Let's look at what's happening to compute capacity in 2026, why classical capacity planning is back, and why forecasts, CSP cooperation and some old assumptions need a serious revisit.
The website is down
One Friday afternoon, an ISP problem made most of my public services disappear from the Internet. Here’s how I investigated it and eventually routed around the failure.
Blogging in the LLM era
After 15 years of technical blogging, most of the traffic I see isn't human anymore. So why keep writing - and should I keep letting AI bots read it?
