In case you missed it, this is my SRECon recap, featuring all of my favorite talks!

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/srecon-2026-recap

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SRECon 2026 Recap

Last month I had the pleasure of going to SRECon 2026 Americas in Seattle; I realized that I posted the transcript of my talk but I didn’t actually do a recap of the conference itself, so I’m going to use this post to do so.

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Lastly in case you missed it, my SRECon talk is now available on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk_POo6dwZA

#srecon #kubernetes #simulation #simkube

SREcon26 Americas - Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation

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I also have a recap of SRECon up for paid subscribers, it will become public next Monday!

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/srecon-2026-recap

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SRECon 2026 Recap

Last month I had the pleasure of going to SRECon 2026 Americas in Seattle; I realized that I posted the transcript of my talk but I didn’t actually do a recap of the conference itself, so I’m going to use this post to do so.

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Are you bored on a Friday afternoon? My SRECon talk, "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation" is now up on YouTube. Go watch it! Feels very timely since Kubernetes (checks notes) 1.36 was just released!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk_POo6dwZA

#srecon #kubernetes #simkube

SREcon26 Americas - Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation

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Two new blog posts today! First is the (now public) transcript from my SRECon talk: "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes upgrades with simulation"

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/stop-reading-changelogs-safer-kubernetes

#srecon #kubernetes #k8s

Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes upgrades with simulation

SRECon 2026 Talk Transcript

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I'm trying a new experiment with my blog: all posts will still be public, but instead of putting them behind a paywall for a weekend, I'm going to leave them behind the paywall for a week. As I have mentioned, I'm trying to get a few more paid subscribers to help support ACRL's conference attendance, which is were I'm able to get most of my business and new leads.

So this week's post, which is a recap of my SRECon talk from last week, is now available for paid subscribers only, and will be available for free to the general public next Monday! Check it out if you want.

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/stop-reading-changelogs-safer-kubernetes

#kubernetes #srecon #simkube

Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes upgrades with simulation

SRECon 2026 Talk Transcript

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And that's a wrap! Thanks all for a great conference.

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"No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story" Daniel Kahneman.

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How to get better at storytelling? Lots of practice! If you're involved in incidents you'll have lots of practice, and you can tell them to people at SRECon :D

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(Is this a good time to plug ACRL's one public postmortem? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣)

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/postmortem-intermittent-failure-in

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Postmortem: Intermittent Failure in SimKube CI Runners

On Wednesday, November 26, 2025, while testing changes to ACRL’s SimKube CI Runner, an ACRL employee discovered an intermittent failure in the runner.

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