Performance has always been important to Placement. In a busy OpenStack cloud, it will receive many hits per second. Any slowness in the placement service will add to the latency present in instance creation and migration operations.

When we added support for requesting complex topologies of nested resource providers, performance …

Back in March, I wrote Profiling WSGI Apps, describing one way to profile the placement service. It was useful enough that a version of it was added to the docs.

Since then I've wanted something a bit more flexible. I maintain a container for placement on Docker hub. When I …

Since Denver in early May I've been running a timer to limit my work day to eight hours. I've stuck to it pretty well, long enough that I have a few observations.

Some of the expected positive outcomes are there: I have more time to attend to non-work tasks like …

This is a followup to More on Maintainership and OpenStack Denver Summit Reflection. Together these are starting to form the foundation of a series on open source collaboration in the face of the climate emergency and political and social inclusiveness. Starting...

I've decided, if possible, to stop flying to technology …