Dr Stephen P. Moss

About

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:20:32 +0100

I’m Steve Moss — a scientist, technologist, and engineer.

I grew up in a small seaside town on the Yorkshire coast, spent years working the doors as a bouncer, and eventually found my way into science and technology. That path led me to a PhD in Computational Genomics — the discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and molecular biology — studying how life encodes and transmits information at scale. My research focused on bioinformatics and molecular evolution at the Universities of Hull and York.

Optimising Kubernetes deployment with local continuous development tooling

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:33:27 +0000

Something I’ve noticed through my work with Kubernetes is that it can be challenging to test things properly locally before deploying.

There are plenty of tools for testing things in continuous integration pipelines and as part of continuous deployment, but there aren’t many tools for increasing your confidence that your Kubernetes-based application (code and associated Helm charts, for example), will deploy properly without issues the first time.

Building a four-node Raspberry Pi 5 cluster

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:37:21 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Kubernetes recently.

My day job is as a Site Reliability Engineer, and I spend my spare time as a Research Consultant, primarily in Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics. Both of these disciplines require an understanding of distributed and high-performance computing. Kubernetes is particularly relevant to scaling various workloads.

As part of my learning and development, I decided to build a home lab that would allow me to test various tools and concepts in a safe environment without requiring me to regularly pay for a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster in Google Cloud Platform (I know there are other Cloud providers, but I prefer Google).