Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

I hope the collection of links and articles I’ve gathered for you contains something useful for you. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

There will be a longer gap than usual before the next Tech Short Take (more details to come on Monday), but in the meantime here’s some articles and links to feed your technical appetite. Servers/Hardware. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we start a new year, here’s a collection of links and articles from around the web. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Honestly, I haven’t had a great deal of time to make much progress, but I did come across this article by Sudeep Goyal which helped reinforce some of the basics I already knew. First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). See this article by Dale Coghlan.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I found this article by Diane Patton at Cumulus Networks talking about container network designs. This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we start a new year, here’s a collection of links and articles from around the web. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Networking.

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Galido

JULY 25, 2018

Small business marketing has a lot of differences in comparison with large or medium business marketing. Traditional article marketing, guest posting, and other orthodox SEO methods have lost their charms, while social media has been able to stand out successfully. Mobile Apps and Web Applications. Mobile Device Diversity.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Servers/Hardware. Federacy recently published an article about the results of their Docker image vulnerability research. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. The first article covers integrating external web services ; the second article discusses consuming external TCP services. Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Welcome to Technology Short Take #86, the latest collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web, focused on major data center technology areas. Csilla Bessenyei has a series of articles on step-by-step automation that you might find helpful. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Nevertheless, I have persevered in order to deliver you this list of links and articles. Servers/Hardware. And he provides a GitHub repository with samples from the article.). Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. Servers/Hardware. Martin Fowler has a good article that lays it out pretty clearly.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Some of Anthony Burke’s work here may also be useful; for example, check out his recent article on using Log Insight to assist with achieving microsegmentation. Have fun reading!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Have a look at this comprehensive article and find out what you are missing out on! However, in comparison to AR, VR is still quite expensive and requires sophisticated use. With a gradual increase in the availability of more practical applications, it is possible for VR to become more accessible for the general public.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. His article also provides a quick look at some of the configuration commands involved. It’s a pretty detailed article with lots of useful information. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

October 2016: Cook tells BuzzFeed News that while “VR has some interesting applications,” AR is superior to VR because “there’s no substitute for human contact. February 2017: Cook expands his thoughts on AR’s potential , adding a new comparison: AR is a big idea, like the smartphone. And so you want the technology to encourage that.”.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 15, 2021

It contains a flexible rendering engine and offers a simple interface for common eBook functions such as pagination, styling, and persistence without developing a dedicated plugin or application. Readium JS comprises two sub-projects, Readium Chrome Application and the Readium CloudReader. Key Features. Different Rendering Methods.

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Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. Note that the Playbook hardware was not updated for Playbook 2.0,

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Brian draws the comparison between property management and how IT is shaping: A rental house is pretty easy to manage. You need greater automation, and you need to support any type of application. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Why is this a big deal?

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Dataconomy

APRIL 20, 2023

In this article, we will explore the past, present, and future of digit-computers, and delve into the emerging technologies and trends that are shaping the next generation of computing. They are used in a wide variety of applications, from personal computers and smartphones to large-scale data centers and scientific simulations.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This article on eBPF and Isovalent (the company behind the Cilium CNI plugin for Kubernetes) has some statements with which I agree, and some that don’t make sense to me. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy! I’m not sure about that. A browser-based side-channel attack ?

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Dataconomy

APRIL 20, 2023

In this article, we will explore the past, present, and future of digit-computers, and delve into the emerging technologies and trends that are shaping the next generation of computing. They are used in a wide variety of applications, from personal computers and smartphones to large-scale data centers and scientific simulations.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

Collective fault detection identifies individual robots that deviate from the desired behavior of the swarm, often due to hardware failures or deficiencies. Some of the key applications of swarm robotics include: Search and rescue : Swarm robots could be used to search for survivors in disaster areas.

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Transportation Research Social Construction 69

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Collecting nearly 1 billion measurements per day around the world, Radar provides performance metrics on cloud platform performance, both in absolute terms and in comparison to other providers. The new application is highly-interactive, makes comparative reports, and makes Radar Cloud and CDN performance data more accessible than ever.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After years of taking a back seat on Windows hardware, the Surface was a bold entry by Microsoft into the world of building its own PCs — showing both the world and its own hardware partners what the future of Windows could look like. Unfortunately, as The Verge ’s review showed, the original Surface was a misfire. Chaim Gartenberg.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. I love this quote from that article: “The second misnomer is, flow based forwarding does not scale. Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. In the Forbes article I never published, Dan said quote- “The reason that software is so inexpensive, we actually are very good at estimating development time. And software? Great question.

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Operating Systems System Open Source Applications 40

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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff, I highly recommend reading it.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Horizon delivers a unified application publishing and VDI solution. Next Poonen talks about real-time application delivery via the CloudVolumes acquisition. It’s not just about application management, but also about content management, email management, and device management. This is a pretty cool announcement, IMHO.).

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