About this blog

Applied Computing Research Labs (ACRL) is a small business doing open-source research and development in distributed systems. This space hosts approximately weekly updates about what we’ve been up to! We’ll talk about Kubernetes, Rust, Golang, the tech industry, and more!

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Open-source development is a notoriously thankless job. Usually it’s done as a hobby, in a person’s spare time. At ACRL we are attempting to change this! While this blog is not our sole, or even primary, source of income, every little bit helps! If you believe that developers should be able to make a living working on open source projects, and you like the work that we’re doing, please consider subscribing to help us keep doing it!

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• Early access to posts: normally posts go up for paid subscribers on Friday afternoon, and will be made available to everyone else on Monday morning. So if you’re looking for some light weekend reading, a paid subscription is the way to go!

• Support our caffeine addiction: the stuff we do is, like, hard and stuff, and we can’t do it without caffeine. If you purchase a paid subscription, you’ll buy us approximately three-quarters of a cup of overpriced fancy coffee each month.

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