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Penn Clubs: Shooting Yourself in the Foot with Kubernetes

Scaling is hard

For Students, By Students: The Role of Penn Labs in the Penn Experience

Last week, I pitched Penn Labs to students at the annual SAC Fair, our informational sessions, and other recruiting events. Like other…

False Promises and Related Rabbitholes

The 19th of September, 2022 might have been an innocuous Monday for most, but over at Penn Clubs -- things were getting rocky. The last day…

Path@Penn Downtime Post-Mortem

Over the past month, our infrastructure has had some intermittent issues, so we wanted to drop a quick postmortem describing what the…

Creating a Virtual Club Fair: Redesigning & Repurposing Penn Clubs

Team: Eric W. (team lead, developer), Davis H. (developer), Daniel T. (developer), Campbell P. (developer), Lucy X. (developer), Jong Min C…

Icarus: Taming the Kubernetes Beast

Recently, we've moved our infrastructure from Dokku to Kubernetes as a platform to host and run our web applications. As a student…

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