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Technology Short Take 176

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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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM , delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization. Cloudant could not have found a better home than IBM.” The acquisition of Cloudant is expected to close in 1Q14.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate. How do you define and group services into applications?

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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. This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). This helps them react to unexpected website traffic load with no problem.

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Weekly Update 6-3-2019

Linux Academy

In a nutshell, serverless computing lets you build and run applications without thinking about servers. Normally, when it comes to running an application from the cloud, you have to deal with setting it all up, which can take hours, days, or even weeks. Configure auto-scaling with load balancers.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Operating Systems/Applications.