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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

– 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., We learned about Cloudant from In-Q-Tel, a very forward thinking firm with a great track record for spotting visionary firms. – bg.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

GeekWire

His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. In 2014 , he became CEO and co-founder of Tempered. “I “That’s a value proposition you can derive a semi through,” he said. million in funding.

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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

FanDuel started to use Puppet to help with configuration management, and they started evaluating the use of Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) to help with scaling. By 2014, FanDuel’s business volumes were now >3,000x the original volume.

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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: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective.

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The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Call for Participation

CTOvision

Call closes 11:59pm 12/02/2014 EST. The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference is a new event designed to provide the necessary professional training that software architects and aspiring software architects need to succeed. Caching, load balancing, optimization. Integration architecture. User experience design.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. It’s been ages (OK, a few years) since I worked with Fibre Channel SAN switches, so this doesn’t mean a whole lot to me—but hopefully it’s helpful to someone out there.

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Kubernetes on OpenStack: The Technical Details

Scott Lowe

For inbound connectivity, this is where Kubernetes Services come into play; you could have a Service of type NodePort (unique port forwarded by kube-proxy on every node in the Kubernetes cluster) or a Service of type LoadBalancer (which uses a cloud load balancer with nodes & NodePorts as registered backends).