All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM.

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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. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. Apple is promising its ARM-based Macs will be able to run more kinds of apps than before, thanks to both native iOS app support and hardware-accelerated machine learning chops built into the silicon.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Read more about it here.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

They look downright miniature in comparison. I’d say the most curious thing about the Studio Buds hardware is what’s been left out: there’s no Apple-made chip inside these. Despite the lack of Apple silicon, Beats has managed to replicate some of those conveniences through software. But the illusion only stretches so far.

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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. Giuliano Bertello shares why it’s important to RTFM; or, how he fixed an issue with a Cross-vCenter NSX 6.2

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 14, 2023

Comparable to a well-executed duet, the client computer communicates its intentions by dispatching requests to various entities, ranging from computer programs to hardware components. The way a client does its job is by sending requests to other stuff, like computer programs or hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

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. Servers/Hardware. In any case, Fournova Software—the company behind the OS X Git client Tower (which I use regularly)—has a developer survey here.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0"

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

The billion-plus users of Windows, for sure, we think of from a distributed computing architecture perspective as the edge of Azure. That’s in comparison to the very controversial 30 percent that Apple charges. The loudest reason is that this is how Apple pays for giving the software away for free. Some parts are lagging behind.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I’ve been using a preview version of the Xbox Series X, so it doesn’t have the final software, game selection, or experience you’ll find with a retail unit. Cool and quiet hardware. Let’s start with the hardware. The main concern for console hardware is cooling. But it’s most of the way there. Xbox Series X ports.

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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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Cloud Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

(This post first appeared in IBM's Point B and Beyond ) The definition of DevOps emphasizes collaboration and communication between software developers and other IT professionals while automating the software delivery and infrastructure change process. In fact, DevOps is to software as IT service brokerage is to infrastructure.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Servers/Hardware. Want or need to use multiple external networks in your OpenStack deployment?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The pushback is real, and it starts with the introduction of one software tool to Apple’s workplace: Slack. Women at Apple started talking about his hiring, specifically in this Slack channel called Women in Software Engineering. If you care about hardware, if you care about design, it’s kind of the pinnacle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

During the days of hardware products, hardware was only changed when it was replaced by the next new version of hardware. In the era of cloud, software could be updated and customer data were collected and analyzed to improve the next version of software, but only when a new version or patch was released.

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