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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World

Galido

However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. 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 #58

Scott Lowe

This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2015, as next week is Christmas and the following week is the New Year’s holiday. 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.

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VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog

Scott Lowe

Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories.

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Liveblog: Resilient Routing and Discovery

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2015 session on resilient routing and discovery, part of the “Advanced Tech” track. Not surprisingly (you’d understand this if you walked Eskilden’s presentation from DockerCon EU 2015), he starts out with a mention of the walrus (his favorite animal). but it ends up that Shopify settled on DNS.

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Liveblog: Resilient Routing and Discovery

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2015 session on resilient routing and discovery, part of the “Advanced Tech” track. Not surprisingly (you’d understand this if you walked Eskilden’s presentation from DockerCon EU 2015), he starts out with a mention of the walrus (his favorite animal). but it ends up that Shopify settled on DNS.