Key Autoscaling Metric #3: Error Rates and Termination Grace Periods

This is the third post in our Five Key Autoscaling Metrics series; in the first post, Ian broke down the Workload Committed Capacity metric, or “why…

Oct 9 • drmorr

Key Autoscaling Metric #2 - Mean Time to Stop Sucking

Welcome to the second deep dive in our “Five Key Metrics for Kubernetes Autoscaling” series!

Oct 5 • drmorr

September 2026

Key Autoscaling Metric #1: Workload Committed Capacity

At ACRL, we get to talk to a lot of clusters… I mean people.

Sep 29 • Ian O’Gorman

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Five key autoscaling metrics for Kubernetes

Editor’s note, because APPARENTLY this is required in this, the year of our lord 2026: every word of this post (and every other post on this blog) was…

Sep 22 • drmorr

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Dear Kubernetes: You need to get your priorities straight

Editor’s note: I’ve been informed that the introduction to this post is convoluted and confusing.

Sep 12 • drmorr

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August 2026

Bazel's UX is really, really, really bad

Hi friends!

Aug 28 • drmorr

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Karpenter's consolidation behaviour is counter-intuitive

OK, this story starts off with a colleague messaging me at 9am on a Tuesday morning: “Hey, drmorr, Karpenter is behaving a little bit strangely in this…

Aug 4 • drmorr

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July 2026

The Seven Stages of CI Grief

On the pain scale, a root canal might be an eight.

Jul 10 • Ian O’Gorman

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June 2026

Worth the Wait: Making SimKube Pod Startup More Realistic

If you’re detail-oriented, skeptical, or just enjoy watching Pod transitions in your spare time, you may have noticed a peculiar behavior in SimKube…

Jun 22 • Ian O’Gorman

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Stop accusing people of cheating with LLMs

This is a bonus post for the week, because I’m frustrated and mad.

Jun 16 • drmorr

Two things to know about Kubernetes Mutating Webhooks

This is a quick story about a bug in SimKube where I knew what the bug was from the beginning and it still took me several hours to actually…

Jun 14 • drmorr

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SimArena: A reinforcement learning arena for training autonomous Kubernetes AI agents

Happy June, everybody!

Jun 8 • drmorr

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