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Notes and deep dives.

Jul 25, 2026deep dive4 min read

PEARC26: what a poster judge learns about running research computing

Notes from PEARC26 in Minneapolis on judging student work, hybrid Slurm and Kubernetes scheduling, and a login-node idea I want to build.

hpckubernetesreliabilityresearch-computing

Jul 18, 2026deep dive9 min read

Building a rootless edge: Traefik, Podman, and per-container TLS

How I built a self-registering reverse proxy on rootless Podman with per-domain TLS, a private CA, and multi-cloud portability, and where I chose it over Kubernetes.

sreplatformtraefikpodman

Jun 15, 2026deep dive1 min read

Notes on job scheduling in HPC clusters

A deeper look at how scheduling policy shapes throughput and fairness on shared clusters.

hpcdistributed-systems