Pete Wall

Talks

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A collection of talks I’ve given at conferences and meetups.

The observed life: what I learned building dashboards for fun

Open Source North 2026 — May 28, 2026 — University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN

A tour of personal dashboard projects — home climate, mortgage tracking, gaming performance stats — and what they taught me about practical observability with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Home Assistant, and where AI can actually be useful in the workflow.

eInk Radiator - #2: Basic Image Sources

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:54:21 +0000

The three basic image sources for the eInk Radiator project: Blank, image, and text

eInk Radiator - #1: Display

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:01:19 +0000

I describe the display component of the eInk Radiator project.

Portfolio

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:29:50 +0000

This is a collection of examples of my work in software. I consider it to be a good representation of both my development abilities as well as my use of software development practices like CI/CD and test automation.

Professional work

As part of the Kubernetes Monitoring team at Grafana Labs, I contribute to the open source tools that customers use to ship telemetry from their clusters into Grafana Cloud.

Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart

The official Helm chart for deploying a complete Kubernetes observability stack — metrics, logs, traces, events, and cost data — built on Grafana Alloy. I contribute to the chart’s design, feature development, and release process, with a focus on making the out-of-the-box experience reliable across a wide range of cluster shapes and cloud providers.

Cattle Cluster

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:35:28 +0000

When my cluster went down and how I didn’t fix it.

eInk Radiator - #0: Design

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:57:15 +0000

The start of a new series on the eInk Radiator project, a Raspberry PI-based eInk display.

Continuous Thing-Doer

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:36:09 +0000

I describe the way that I’ve deployed Concourse to my cluster.

Summoning Ghosts

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:01:44 +0000

Where I describe the process of deploying this blog software.

Home Lab #6: Quick update about volumes

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:18:27 +0000

The continuing troubles with the SSD drives in my home lab machines.

Home Lab Build - #5 Deploying the Platform

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:39:38 +0000

Installing the Kubernetes software platform on my home lab and some fixes along the way.

Home Lab Build - #4 M.2 Drive Struggles

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:39:29 +0000

The challenges of getting the M.2 drives working and the dumb reason why.

Home Lab Build - #3 Updating the BIOS/UEFI

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:59:55 +0000

Getting the firmware up to date on the hardware for the home lab.

Home Lab Build - #2 Installing the Hard Drive

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 12:52:33 +0000

The hard drives that are going into the new hardware for the home lab.

Home Lab Build - #1 New Hardware

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:25:47 +0000

About the computers I chose to buy to start my new home lab.

Home Lab Build - #0 Current State

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:10:17 +0000

The history and current state of my home lab, and why it’s time to change it.

About Pete Wall

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:50:08 +0000

I am a software engineer who loves to work with people to make great things. I have experience at small companies creating web apps and microprocessor firmware; at medium companies creating VR experiences and IRB-approved research projects; and at large enterprises creating robust and reliable software.

I love open source: Using great tools is cool. Creating great tools for others is better! Whether at work, or on personal projects, I want to contribute quality code to benefit everyone.