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Technology Short Take 102

Scott Lowe

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Different design and architecture considerations apply in each instance. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

With OpsWorks you can create a logical architecture, provision resources based on that architecture, deploy your applications and all supporting software and packages in your chosen configuration, and then operate and maintain the application through lifecycle stages such as auto-scaling events and software updates.

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Liveblog: Resilient Routing and Discovery

Scott Lowe

Eskilden freely acknowledges that moving to a microservices-based architecture increases complexity and is not “free”. In order to help address the complexity brought on by microservices-based architectures, Eskilden wants to talk about resiliency, service discovery, and routing. but it ends up that Shopify settled on DNS.

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Liveblog: Resilient Routing and Discovery

Scott Lowe

Eskilden freely acknowledges that moving to a microservices-based architecture increases complexity and is not “free”. In order to help address the complexity brought on by microservices-based architectures, Eskilden wants to talk about resiliency, service discovery, and routing. but it ends up that Shopify settled on DNS.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document. in the comparison, even though RHEV 3.1 wasn’t released (was still in beta) at the time the comparison was written. Erik Scholten of VMGuru.nl

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