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The Grid Isn't a Cluster: What Technologists Get Wrong About Energy

The Grid Isn't a Cluster: What Technologists Get Wrong About Energy

January 9, 2026•8 min read

Mental models from software don't always make sense when applied to electrical grids. How should we think about energy and emissions?

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener (Part 3)

Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener (Part 3)

December 18, 2025•15 min read

Part 3 details experimentation around carbon-aware, spatial scheduling of LoRA fine-tuning.

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
The Parts They Don't Tell You About Founder Life (Though You Wouldn't Listen To Them Anyway)

The Parts They Don't Tell You About Founder Life (Though You Wouldn't Listen To Them Anyway)

November 25, 2025•8 min read

Let's get real about delusional entrepreneurship.

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener (Part 2)

Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener (Part 2)

November 3, 2025•13 min read

Part 2 details how Compute Gardener can limit emissions of KubeRay managed LoRA training, with intelligent scheduling.

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener (Part 1)

Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener (Part 1)

October 3, 2025•10 min read

Part 1 showcases how Compute Gardener can lessen carbon emissions of ML training, without any code changes.

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
The Carbon-Aware Computing Ecosystem: Progress, Patterns and our Race Against Time

The Carbon-Aware Computing Ecosystem: Progress, Patterns and our Race Against Time

June 30, 2025•8 min read

Lots to celebrate and lots yet to do!

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
Average or Marginal? Navigating Intensity Signals in Carbon-Aware Computing

Average or Marginal? Navigating Intensity Signals in Carbon-Aware Computing

May 14, 2025•7 min read

How should we consider these signals when it comes to scheduling?

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
Building a Carbon and Price-Aware Kubernetes Scheduler

Building a Carbon and Price-Aware Kubernetes Scheduler

March 20, 2025•10 min read

Compute Gardener Technical Deep Dive

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink
Simplifying Carbon-Aware Computing in a Complex World

Simplifying Carbon-Aware Computing in a Complex World

March 11, 2025•3 min read

Introducing Compute Gardener

Dave Masselink
Dave Masselink

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