https://appliedcomputing.io/ https://github.com/acrlabsen Wed, 06 May 2026 23:04:30 -0000 Wed, 06 May 2026 23:04:30 -0000 1440 MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.17.4 None https://appliedcomputing.io/ drmorr <p>Hi, and welcome to the Applied Computing Research Labs (ACRL) blog! We are a small business doing open-source research and development in distributed systems...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-07-24-whale-hello-there/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-07-24-whale-hello-there/ drmorr <p>Alrighty, in our last blog post we gave a quick intro to Applied Computing and what we're doing here. In this post, we're going to dive right in to a (hopefu...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-07-31-writing-k8s-scheduler-rust/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-07-31-writing-k8s-scheduler-rust/ drmorr <p>This post is currently hosted <a href="https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/doing-kubernetes-configuration-good">on substack</a> and hasn't been ported over yet.</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-07-doing-kubernetes-configuration-good/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-07-doing-kubernetes-configuration-good/ drmorr <p>This post is currently hosted <a href="https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/thoughts-on-scheduling-and-autoscaling">on substack</a> and hasn't been ported over yet.</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-14-thoughts-scheduling-autoscaling/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-14-thoughts-scheduling-autoscaling/ drmorr <p>This post is currently hosted <a href="https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/conways-law-and-kubernetes">on substack</a> and hasn't been ported over yet.</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-21-conways-law-kubernetes/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-21-conways-law-kubernetes/ drmorr <p>Alright, it's time for my first multi-part series on this blog! I'm gonna talk about my first "big" project that I've been working on at Applied Computing. I...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-28-simkube-part-1/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-08-28-simkube-part-1/ drmorr <blockquote> <p><strong>Author's Note</strong>: This post is now somewhat out of date, since we are no longer using Virtual Kubelet inside SimKube, but instead using [Kubernetes With...</p> </blockquote> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-09-04-simkube-part-2/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-09-04-simkube-part-2/ drmorr <p>This is the third part of a (at least) four-part series on simulation in Kubernetes. Here's the outline of the rest of the series, I will update this with li...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-09-18-simkube-part-3/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-09-18-simkube-part-3/ drmorr <p>For those of you in the United States, happy Thanksgiving week! I have a post for you today, but I won't have a post next week. We'll be resuming our regul...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-11-20-kubecon-recap-part-2/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-11-20-kubecon-recap-part-2/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![An Indiana-Jones-like figure sitting on a stage, surrounded by old boxes, with a large stone carving behind him. He is holding a micro... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-12-04-kubecon-recap-part-3/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-12-04-kubecon-recap-part-3/ drmorr <p>We're getting towards the close of the year, and I'm busy with two separate grant proposals, so I'm gonna phone it in a little bit today. This will be my wr...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-12-11-kubecon-recap-part-4/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-12-11-kubecon-recap-part-4/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![Captain Picard, sitting in his captain's chair, looking ever-so-slightly-uncanny-valley-ish. The caption reads, "WARPPED SPEED." in ye... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-12-18-acrl-wrapped/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2023-12-18-acrl-wrapped/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![A collection of people and droids, some of them carrying lightsabers, underneath a fleet of giant spaceships with legs in improbable ... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-01-22-happy-new-year/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-01-22-happy-new-year/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![a stylized campfire burning a bunch of text that looks vaguely Klingon-ish, but could also conceivably be YAML](/img/posts/fireconfig.j... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-01-29-revisiting-fireconfig/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-01-29-revisiting-fireconfig/ drmorr <figure markdown>  </figure> <p>It's a new year...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-02-05-okrs-are-bullshit/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-02-05-okrs-are-bullshit/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![A dramatically-lit scale with a glowing "C" on one side and a purple 8-sided block with a blue diagram in the middle on the other. T... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-02-12-bad-analogy-time/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-02-12-bad-analogy-time/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![a scientist getting sucked into a glowing wormhole-like artifice, that is populated with a bunch of detritus and a few rabbits. The ... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-02-26-simkube-part-4/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-02-26-simkube-part-4/ drmorr <figure markdown> ![]() <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> <p>Welcome back, and happy March! I've been dealing with a bunch of sortof gnarly design decis...</p> https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-03-11-design-docs/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-03-11-design-docs/ drmorr <figure markdown>  <figcaption>Blogophant, the stuffed robotic bl... https://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-04-01-kubernetes-controller-design-patterns/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 ACRLhttps://appliedcomputing.io/posts/2024-04-01-kubernetes-controller-design-patterns/