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IDF 2014: Bare Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization

Scott Lowe

This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. The discussion now transitions into a quick review of the underlying Docker architecture. There is a Docker daemon that runs on Linux; the Docker client can be run elsewhere. Docker Making Its Move.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. Day 1 Keynote. Closing Thoughts.

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Cross Compiling with Go

SPF13

One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different platforms and architectures from a single machine. It’s really nice to not have to build each release of Hugo separately on a windows 32 & 64, linux 32, 64 & arm and mac machine. go version go version go1.2 darwin/amd64. AppName}}{{.PS}}{{.Version}}{{.PS}}{{.AppName}}_{{.Version}}_{{.Os}}_{{.Arch}}{{.Ext}}"

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Cross Compiling with Go

SPF13

One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different platforms and architectures from a single machine. It’s really nice to be able to provide executables of Hugo for a bunch of different platforms and architectures without having to have all these different machines in a build cluster.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

Once again this comes back to Intel’s rack-scale architecture work.) A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Patches for Meltdown and Spectre aren’t that bad after all

Network World

Internal tests from a leading industry vendor have shown that fixes applied to servers running Linux or Windows Server aren’t as detrimental as initially thought, with many use cases seeing no impact at all. Skylake, though, was a whole new architecture, and as it turns out, that made the difference.

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Cloud Conversations: Revisiting re:Invent 2014 and other AWS updates

Storage IO Blog

SQL Server among others).

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