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Technology Short Take 149

Scott Lowe

Thomas Graf recently shared how eBPF will eliminate sidecars in service mesh architectures (he also announces the Cilium Service Mesh beta in the same post). Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . White Papers. ” [.].

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), From an architectural perspective, this approach may also be referred to as a compute fabric or Processing Area Network.