Spearline Testing

JANUARY 14, 2021

Many individuals utilize VoIP on a daily basis unbeknownst to themselves, for example in online gaming or through video calling applications. Organizations must also closely examine their existing network and its capabilities prior to the rollout of VoIP. Resultant issues.

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VOIP Telecommunications Load Balancer Internet 147

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Networking. This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? Operating Systems/Applications. Start here.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. And now for the content!

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Networking. I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. Dan Lorenc’s article on policy and attestations does a great job of covering key concepts like signatures, attestations, and provenance. Operating Systems/Applications. Kudos to J.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Networking. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Second, the content reflects—in my opinion—the changing nature of what it means to be a “networking professional.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Networking. David Gee has an interesting set of articles exploring service function chaining in service mesh environments ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ).

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Here’s a fresh new collection of links and articles from the around the web to propel myself back into blogging. Networking. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful here!

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Networking. Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration. This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. This article is pretty high-level; I wish it had a bit more depth to it.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Welcome to Technology Short Take 103, where I’m back yet again with a collection of links and articles from around the World Wide Web (Ha! Networking. If you’re not familiar with VPCs and associated AWS constructs, you should read this article. Operating Systems/Applications. on various technology areas.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking. Although her article is written specifically for Azure, the underlying concept of being sure to tag resources appropriately is valuable for any cloud provider. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Networking. Ajay Chenampara has a post on using the Ansible network-engine command parser to parse the output of commands on network devices. Ajay Chenampara has a post on using the Ansible network-engine command parser to parse the output of commands on network devices. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Networking. I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. Dan Lorenc’s article on policy and attestations does a great job of covering key concepts like signatures, attestations, and provenance. Operating Systems/Applications. Kudos to J.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. Networking. The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Nevertheless, I have persevered in order to deliver you this list of links and articles. Networking. The engineering team at Lyft recently discussed a new overlay-free networking approach they’ve been working on for Kubernetes: IPVLAN-based CNI stack for running within VPCs on AWS. (For Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. Networking. Comments (required).

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

PaaS provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage web applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Its unique power is associated with developing and deploying applications.

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Disaster Recovery Healthcare Load Balancer Applications 70

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2013

Clearly there are some real benefits to using OpenFlow in certain use cases (here’s one example ), but that doesn’t mean OpenFlow—especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, where OpenFlow is involved at every “hop” of the packet forwarding process throughout the network—is the right solution for all environments.

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Load Balancer Network HP Virtualization 106

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

Depending on network connectivity, I may or may not be able to update this post in real-time. The demo shows how to deploy applications to a variety of different infrastructures, including the ability to look at costs (estimated) across those infrastructures. So what does this functionality give application owners?

Vmware 64

Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 64

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Networking. Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . Branches and other offices.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. So how does this work?

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 60

Dataconomy

MAY 22, 2023

In this article, we will explore the concept of distributed learning and its significance in the realm of machine learning. Rather than relying on a single machine, distributed learning harnesses the collective computational power of a network of machines or nodes. But what exactly is distributed learning in machine learning?

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Training Resources Data Load Balancer 93

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Networking. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Networking. If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Also see the “Networking” section above for a related post on the networking aspects involved.

Vmware 108

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Networking. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Now, on to the content!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Networking. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Here’s an article on using PHP to query NSX API via REST (specifically, working with syslog settings on NSX Manager). I hope you find something useful here. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Networking. Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Operating Systems/Applications. Sorry about that, folks! Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #48, another installation in my irregularly-published series that collects links, articles, and thoughts from around the web. This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. Add to that a desire for most enterprises to integrate cloud based workloads with legacy on-premises applications, and we have complex hybrid cloud deployments to deal with as the result.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Networking. I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you haven’t read that post or aren’t familiar with the requirements for setting up a Kubernetes cluster with the AWS cloud provider, I strongly recommend you go read the linked article. You can use the kubeadm configuration files in the August 2019 article for your nodes as a basis/starting point. Bootstrap the Cluster.

Internet 60

Internet Load Balancer Cloud System 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In 2003, I founded Blue Box from my college dorm room to be a managed hosting company focused on overcoming the complexities of highly customized open source infrastructure running high traffic web applications. For IaaS technology, the trunk is built of essential cloud core services: compute, networking and storage.

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Cloud Open Source Load Balancer Engineering 60