https://benebsworth.com Software, platform & hardware engineer · Writing on Kubernetes, distributed systems, electrical engineering, and AI · Melbourne, Australia en-AU © 2026 Ben Ebsworth Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:35:57 GMT https://benebsworth.com/icon.svg https://benebsworth.com https://benebsworth.com/blog/attention-from-the-inside-out/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/attention-from-the-inside-out/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Attention is just a weighted average whose weights the data computes by asking itself questions. A worked tour through scaled dot-product attention, temperature and sampling, and what a 46B-active / 1T-total Mixture-of-Experts spec actually means — with live matrices you can poke. Algorithms technology algorithms machine-learning deep-learning https://benebsworth.com/blog/pll-from-first-principles/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/pll-from-first-principles/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) A phase-locked loop is a control system with a phase detector instead of a summing junction. The intuition you can build with the lab above is more durable than the textbook derivations. Algorithms technology algorithms physics electrical engineering signal processing https://benebsworth.com/blog/smith-chart-is-geometry/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/smith-chart-is-geometry/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) What looks like a chart for radio engineers is really a Möbius transform drawn on the complex plane. A visual essay on why impedance matching is a question of circles, lines, and rotations. Algorithms technology algorithms physics electrical engineering https://benebsworth.com/blog/neural-network-zoo-explained/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/neural-network-zoo-explained/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) A guided tour through the Asimov Institute's Neural Network Zoo — every architecture from the poster, with intuition for what each one is actually for and an interactive SVG diagram for the major families. Algorithms algorithms machine-learning deep-learning https://benebsworth.com/blog/istio-patterns/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/istio-patterns/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Overview of some common Istio Service Mesh topologies and configuration examples and diagrams Service Mesh technology kubernetes service mesh istio https://benebsworth.com/blog/gke-development-auto-scale-down/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/gke-development-auto-scale-down/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) How to sleep at night when actively developing on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Google Cloud Scheduler Google Cloud technology GCP kubernetes https://benebsworth.com/blog/kubernetes-cicd-part-2/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/kubernetes-cicd-part-2/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) An overview of the current kubernetes-native ci/cd ecosystem, With a demonstration of an end-to-end Tekton based workflow for build, test and deployment of a fullstack application Kubernetes technology CI/CD GCP kubernetes kaniko developer experience istio knative tekton skaffold https://benebsworth.com/blog/kubernetes-cicd-part-1/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/kubernetes-cicd-part-1/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) How we can get closer to unifying the local developer experience with production-grade kubernetes run-time environments Kubernetes technology GCP kubernetes containers developer experience knative skaffold kustomize https://benebsworth.com/blog/two-number-sum/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/two-number-sum/ Mon, 27 May 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) self-explanation of approach to solving the Two Number Sum problem Algorithms algorithms personal go python https://benebsworth.com/blog/getting-started-with-tekton/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/getting-started-with-tekton/ Sun, 12 May 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Developing basic CI and CD pipelines in Tekton and deploying this both to local and cloud based environments CI/CD · Tekton technology CI/CD GCP kubernetes containers kaniko developer experience https://benebsworth.com/blog/install-minikube/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/install-minikube/ Sun, 05 May 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Instructions for the installation, upgrade and other customization of a Minikube install on MacOS. As well as a basic example of deploying a service and exposing it for local access Local Dev technology kubernetes developer experience https://benebsworth.com/blog/using-helm/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/using-helm/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Demonstrating use-cases for Helm and a discussion on the strength and weaknesses of templating, in the context of other available tooling within the Kubernetes ecosystem Kubernetes technology kubernetes developer experience https://benebsworth.com/blog/using-kapitan/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/using-kapitan/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Exploring the capabilities of Kapitan for configuration management, with an analysis of its fit for contextualising per-environment configuration Kubernetes technology kubernetes developer experience https://benebsworth.com/blog/common-hooks/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/common-hooks/ Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) Collection of common hook usage examples as well as custom implementations React technology react https://benebsworth.com/blog/hello-world/ https://benebsworth.com/blog/hello-world/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:12:03 GMT ben.ebsworth@gmail.com (Ben Ebsworth) First blog post introducing motivations and goals Field Notes general personal