Notes on observability for GPU-bound services
The interesting metric is not latency. It is the variance of latency conditioned on batch composition.
Apr 08, 2026·Infrastructure· read
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When Home Assistant learned to wait
A 600ms debounce changed how my house felt. The most intelligent automation is the one that does not act.
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Apr 08, 2026
Infrastructure
Notes on observability for GPU-bound services
The interesting metric is not latency. It is the variance of latency conditioned on batch composition.
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Mar 18, 2026
Environments
When Home Assistant learned to wait
A 600ms debounce changed how my house felt. The most intelligent automation is the one that does not act.
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Feb 24, 2026
Behavior
A tagging system and email notifications
Many notification systems are have one channel. Adding a tagging system turned out to be more effective targeting.
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Feb 02, 2026
Infrastructure
My storage layout
Redundant 4TB ZFS for the hypervisor and the Kubernetes K8s cluster, and planning a separate NAS pool for cold media.
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