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Compute Scarcity Is Permanent. Build a Ladder.

Compute Scarcity Is Permanent. Build a Ladder.

Every resilience pattern you know assumes the machine shows up. Accelerator scarcity breaks that assumption, and the pattern catalogs have not caught up. Here is the Compute Fallback Ladder—an ordered set of rungs your workload can run on, a selector that picks the highest obtainable one, and a promotion path back up when capacity returns.

Schedule the Accelerators: A GPU/TPU Puzzle

Schedule the Accelerators: A GPU/TPU Puzzle

I'm hiring a Senior Developer Relations Engineer for GKE and AI Infrastructure. Instead of describing the work, I built it: a small, playable cluster scheduler that teaches the real problem behind running AI at scale—gang scheduling, memory ceilings, spot preemption, and a TPU slice with actual topology.