Key Autoscaling Metric #5: Two and a Half Replicas

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Nov 2 • Ian O’Gorman

October 2026

Key Autoscaling Metric #4: Pod Misruption Schmudgets

Ok, y’all, this is the 4th post in our Key Autoscaling Metrics series, and you could say this post is the entire raison d’être, as it were, for this…

Oct 24 • drmorr

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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

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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

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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