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Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery

All Things Distributed

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading! This is a handy trick.

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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2017 Black Belt session led by Thomas Graf on Cilium , a new startup that focuses on using eBPF and XDP for network and application security. A lot of it has not evolved as application deployments have evolved from low complexity/low deployment frequency to high complexity/high deployment frequency.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application. Later on, Ill give a few examples of. Balancing these. Fountainhead.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%.

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Migrating to VoIP

Spearline Testing

Many individuals utilize VoIP on a daily basis unbeknownst to themselves, for example in online gaming or through video calling applications. This demonstrates the performance of the new and old system and its impact on your customer’s experience, for example in global contact centers. Resultant issues.

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