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

All Things Distributed

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Route53 support for WRR load balancing. Weighted Round Robin is a DNS based load-balancing scheme that allows you to select multiple IP address for a name to be resolved to and to assigns frequencies ("weights") to how often the name should resolve to each address.

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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” Global IPv6 adoption is currently around 22%, and is expected to hit 25% by the end of the year. T-Mobile, for example, now has 89% of their infrastructure running on IPv6.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. It takes just minutes to get started and deploy your first application.

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Technology Short Take #87

Scott Lowe

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. RIP Solaris. Virtualization.

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Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation.

All Things Distributed

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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Kubernetes on OpenStack: The Technical Details

Scott Lowe

One of the key points is that Kubernetes is more application-focused, whereas OpenStack is more machine-focused. Side note: Kubernetes isn’t yet very IPv6-friendly, so Lees recommends avoiding putting IPv6 addresses on Kubernetes nodes.). Load balancing is the next connection point that Lees reviews.