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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Technology Short Take #72

Scott Lowe

As usual, here’s my random collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. VMware recently published a case study describing how Rackspace used VMware NSX to quickly meet new PCI DSS compliance goals. Networking.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

Split DNS: Publish multiple views of the DNS namespace, such as providing different sets of data to internal users and the Internet at large. While each view is typically treated as a separate virtual server, in recent years BIND has added features to make it easier to share data between views. Alternatives to BIND: A Case Study.

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