Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s a bit disappointing to see that the Surface is still using the older Ryzen chips, since much of the new generation is based on a new architecture (Zen 3, to the 4000 series’s Zen 2) that has delivered performance gains. In addition to that processor, the 15-inch Surface Laptop 4 I reviewed comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.

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Microsoft Intel Dell Storage 65

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Although this post is a bit older (it’s from September of last year), it’s still an interesting comparison of both OpenStack and CloudStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ).

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 101

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. Different design and architecture considerations apply in each instance. Shahidh Muhammad has a review/comparison of various tools aimed at helping developers build and deploy their apps on Kubernetes. Here’s a three-part series on Helm ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

The CPU architecture flaw involving speculative execution has been garnering a great deal of attention (see here , here , here , and here ). Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Operating Systems/Applications. I don’t know. Technology Short Take #42.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

This news came out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015: Ericsson has announced a new “hyperscale” hardware platform based on Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture (RSA). Operating Systems/Applications. I found this post comparing Ansible and Salt to be quite helpful, particularly given some of the comparisons with Puppet.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60