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Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me

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Pulling Containers and the SOCI Snapshotter How does one pull containers in Kubernetes, you ask? Well, if you don’t think much about it, the answer is pretty slowly. Of course it depends on the size of your containers. If you don’t want to read, this is... Read more

Adventures of Ubuntu GKE with V100s We’ve been busily running a large performance study across clouds for the last few months, and although I’ve been learning immense things (how to setup and use Infiniband, and build applications and install drivers for new devices)! I haven’t taken... Read more

Performance of User-Space Kubernetes This is a story that goes along with our upcoming paper about running User-Space Kubernetes alongside an HPC resource manager, Flux Framework. In summary, early work we did for FOSDEM earlier this year demonstrated that we could run Flux alongside... Read more

Seeing Yourself In the beginning of 2018, I had my third (and hopefully last) brain / spine and neck surgery, and literally and figuratively confronted myself. I saw a picture that brought back this memory today, and would like to tell this... Read more