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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World

Galido

Of course, this is just one part of why Kubernetes is useful and widely praised. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Traffic routing and load balancing. Kubernetes also comes with built-in load balancers to distribute the load across multiple pods.

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Technology Short Take 119

Scott Lowe

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content! Fortunately, the diagrams illustrate that there is something substantive behind the headline. Servers/Hardware.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Each data center is highly reliable, and has redundant power, including UPS and generators. Availability Zones draw a hard line around the scope and magnitude of those interruptions.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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VMworld 2013 – Keynote Day 2 – NSX, vCAC, vSAN

Virtualized Greek

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.

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