I’ve been having some fun with MCP recently, and this felt like a good excuse to revive an old project of mine! Can you use Claude, MCP, Kubernetes & Caps Lock LEDs to send SOS messages? 👀 nonmonotonic.dev/posts/halp-mcp/

We’ve been systematically evaluating the scalability of our fleet’s control planes, and the recent work on storage layer scalability in the Kubernetes community is going to prove pivotal as we scale further! Check out what we’ve been upto for the past couple of weeks ♥️

ahmet alp balkan@ahmet.dev · last yr.

As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...

Glad to have @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social join us at LinkedIn compute team this summer. I’m constantly impressed by the depth of his kube-apiserver expertise.

Shared logs are an extremely powerful abstraction and the work on these systems that has come out of our group at UIUC has been nothing short of elegant and practical. This talk should give an excellent overview of that vision! ♥️

TigerBeetle@tigerbeetle.com · last yr.

Prof. Ram Alagappan's research group at the University of Illinois has been building new abstractions and designs to address latency in shared logs. In this talk, learn about the motivation, design, and benefits of two of them––LazyLog and SpecLog.

Very impressive and thorough look at the Go runtime internals.

Jaz@jaz.sh · last yr.

Found this tonight and it's a really solid read on the Go runtime. Definitely a long post but it's got a lot of useful info in it. Learned a lot about things that I haven't really dug into before from it. nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/g...

Found this tonight and it's a really solid read on the Go runtime. Definitely a long post but it's got a lot of useful info in it. Learned a lot about things that I haven't really dug into before from it. nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/g...

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I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend

I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last yr.

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

[new blog post] Multi-Grained Specifications for Distributed System Model Checking and Verification muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/04/mult... #tlaplus

Multi-Grained Specifications for Distributed System Model Checking and Verification

This EuroSys 2025 paper wrestles with the messy interface between formal specification and implementation reality in distributed systems. T...

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Hiya! The most useful thing to check out would be this: cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publicat...

Yesterday I met Yawan in Bungamati, Nepal — he’s 18, visually impaired, and wants to learn to code to build tools for others like him. What are the best dev resources for the visually impaired? Asking for a friend, and this time for real!

ICYMI, there’s been significant scalability and reliability improvements in the K8s storage layer, join us for a deep dive into Defusing The K8s API Performance Minefield next week #KubeCon! sched.co/1tx9P

I am looking to meet women interested in having no-BS conversations around personal finance, tech and sustainability! #womenInTech #bayarea #sanfranciso

Today is the last day to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam! The best conference in systems with an awesome lineup this year! cidrdb.org/cidr2025/pro...

Great opportunity to join the Kubernetes release team and learn what it takes to ship Kubernetes!

K8sContributors@kubernetes.dev · 2y ago

✨ Release Team shadow application is now open until January 8th. Apply and join us to help shape v1.33! forms.gle/3xn8fajX1waA...

Always amazes me that you can just reach out to people you admire and look up to and they respond back with the same enthusiasm and encouragement, super willing to help out. Gotta love the systems community 🥰

Fun NULL BITMAP today talking associativity. A topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Why are Things Associative?

The big three algebraic properties that show up in the distributed systems literature are associative, commutativity, and idempotency (EYE-dem-po-ten-see)....

buttondown.com

Excellent post-mortem by the #OpenAI team on the recent outage! We’ve had some work gone in recently to prevent control plane overwhelm in Kubernetes, super curious about what versions of K8s they’re on and if these features could have helped 👀 status.openai.com/incidents/ct...

API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues

OpenAI's Status Page - API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues.

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#Kubernetes v1.32 is released! Thank you 1.32 release team led by Frederico Muñoz and thank you release managers and thank you contributors — so much hard work goes into each release kubernetes.io/blog/2024/12...

The energy here at #KubeConIndia is unlike anything I've ever seen at a KubeCon. People are excited and thirsty to learn. So glad I got to experience the first KubeCon in India!

The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html

We have a strong background in formal methods and system reliability. So we’ve been surgically applying these techniques to scale our correctness efforts at Feldera. We’ve found them quite effective at catching bugs early during development, long before they can manifest in production.

Correctness at Feldera

In this blog post, we briefly describe our efforts and development processes that ensure Feldera's engine is correct.

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@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social I really liked this presentation of yours www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdO_... The most enjoyable part was how smoothly you combined philosophy, physics, psychology and computer sciences.

Fireside Talk - Looking at Computing Systems as a Conspiracy Theorist by Madhav Jivrajani

YouTube video by Harini Anand

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Thank you so much! That’s definitely one of my favourite talks, super glad you enjoyed it! 💕

Maciej Szulik@soltysh.bsky.social · 2y ago

@madhavjivrajani.bsky.social I really liked this presentation of yours www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdO_... The most enjoyable part was how smoothly you combined philosophy, physics, psychology and computer sciences.

Kinda bummed I’m going to miss the first #KubeCon happening in India but also super excited to see all the wonderful things that come out of it ♥️ Make someone feel included if you’re a veteran and as a friendly reminder, remember the Pac-Man rule: www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/au...

Today @kubernetes.io discovered slack has a 200,000 user limit on channels by way of the #kubernetes-users in slack.k8s.io 🙃

Join Kubernetes on Slack - Community Inviter

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We have a thriving systems community in Bangalore which hosts deeply technical and insightful talks, and in that vein, there’s an excellent talk by @alexgarcia.xyz on sqlite-vec going on right now! discord.gg/kdq68txQeQ

thanks for getting the ball rolling on that one @madhavjivrajani.bsky.social in github.com/kubernetes/k... way back in 2022!

[WIP][PoC] cacher: Attempt serving paginated LIST calls from watchCache by MadhavJivrajani · Pull Request #108392 · kubernetes/kubernetes

What type of PR is this? What this PR does / why we need it: Which issue(s) this PR fixes: Fixes # Special notes for your reviewer: Does this PR introduce a user-facing change? Additional docu...

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This was a very interesting piece of work over a couple of years that we drove in the community and it makes me so happy to see the impact it’s had ♥️🎉

Davanum Srinivas (@dims)@dims.dev · 2y ago

graph of the day!

I'm so excited to share my latest paper called DELIFT along with Krishnateja Killamsetty, Lucian Popa, and Marina Danilevksy at IBM Research 🎉 We tackle expensive fine-tuning by selecting a small subset of informative data that targets a model's weaknesses.