Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Megan O’Keefe shares a Kubernetes developer workflow for macOS that includes a list of applications, themes, tools, and shortcuts.

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Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Check this out.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. In 2019, I think you had said to Wired , “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us. ” So anything that is a client operating system ultimately does rendezvous with cloud computing. PWAs, which are progressive web apps.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

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? When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Thanks Michael!

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 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. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Fun read if you’re into custom builds.

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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. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Fun read if you’re into custom builds.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Most folks have probably heard about 12 Factor Applications (see here if you haven’t or if you need a refresher); this article talks about 12 basic rules and good practices for using Kubernetes optimally.

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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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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This is an older post (more than 2 years old), but as far as I can tell the concepts are still quite applicable. Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Eben Freeman shows how to integrate Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb for detailed application statistics.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Operating Systems/Applications. Thanks Jason!

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

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. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? (Do I need to talk about how understanding a service mesh is a good thing for networking professionals?

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Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs. and vSphere.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Marcos Hernandez (a colleague on the NSX team at VMware) recently pointed out this Heat template for a multi-tier application with dynamic routing (via Quagga). Operating Systems/Applications. (Why certain other companies that shall remain unnamed haven’t done something similar is beyond me.).

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ). Servers/Hardware. This news came out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015: Ericsson has announced a new “hyperscale” hardware platform based on Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture (RSA).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. Having an application that automatically grows to accommodate demand is somewhat of a “Holy Grail” for cloud-based applications and cloud management platforms. Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

“You are basically building a piece of hardware to do a specific thing,” she told a judge. As a result, Microsoft keeps tight control of what content users can access — it’s a “curated, custom-built hardware/software experience.” The Xbox is designed to give you a gaming experience. People buy an Xbox because they want to play games.”

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. I’m not sure about that. If you have strong feelings about this, hit me on Twitter and let’s discuss. Check out cloudlist.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

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.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Schuberg Philis has a nice write-up of their CloudStack+NVP deployment here.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

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. Technology Short Take #41.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Rancher—the company behind RancherOS (Linux distro that uses Docker for system services as well as user applications) and Rancher (a management platform for containerized infrastructure)—recently announced a container metadata service they’re saying is analogous to Amazon’s Instance Metadata service.

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Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

These tech marvels are designed to add another dimension to your ChatGPT experience by linking you with external applications, services, and companies. ChatGPT plugins are live It’s important to note that plugins are accessible only via the website and not the mobile application. ChatGPT Plus : How does the paid version work?

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Microsoft Training Applications Travel 36