Nov 4, 2023 — Kubernetes Artifact Cache — I’ve been working on an idea recently that I’m very excited about, and want to pause to share. In this post I’ll summarize the problem, a potential design, and then a simple example that demonstrates the proposed solution. The Problem... Read more

Oct 21, 2023 — Updated Software is Valued Software — I’ve been deeply immersed in Kubernetes and performance analysis and workflow software, but found my mind wandering on Friday night with a very specific question: What portion of research software becomes dormant after it’s published? I will preface this saying... Read more

Sep 27, 2023 — Hairballs and Binaries — I mean it with the utmost affection when I say that many high performance computing applications are like hairballs. Often when we are aspiring for peak performance, we bring in many system and shared libraries, and (in contrast to a... Read more

Sep 3, 2023 — Speaking Opportunities — Giving talks is a part of being an academic, and it crosses over into industry software engineering too. We often have ideas or vision that we want to share, and talks are a good way to do that. I’ve found... Read more