All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for developers to deploy and manage scalable and fault-tolerant applications on the AWS cloud. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Comments ().

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Check this out.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. I saw this headline , and immediately thought it was just “cloud native”-washing (i.e., tagging everything as “cloud native”). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, if the operating system pattern is Linux Oracle Enterprise, the architect would use that pattern first in its design unless technical constraints made the consumption of this pattern suboptimal to accomplish the solution’s goal.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 105

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A few interesting things jumped out at me from the report; one of them was regarding an increase in “siloism” as organizations embraced multiple clouds.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware'

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Storage.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. You can deploy your application in the configuration you choose on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM.

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Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 157

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

NFV is intended to address the problem caused by having to route/direct traffic from various sources through physical appliances designed to provide services like content filtering, security, content delivery/acceleration, and load balancing. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For example, Cody Bunch published this article on running OpenStack Private Cloud on ESXi , and Brent Salisbury (there he is again!) Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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