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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

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4 Tips for Processing Real-Time Data

CIO Business Intelligence

Match your server components to your use case: For the software supporting your database to achieve the best real-time performance at scale, you need the right server hardware as well. Ideally, real-time data processing requires a database, hardware and software solution that can both scale up and scale out.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Servers/Hardware. Losing to Apple—whose M-series chips are widely regarded as faster and more efficient than Intel’s chips—has apparently stung the chip giant into revving up the innovation engine.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. Integrated I/O in the E5 CPUs has also allowed Intel to introduce something like Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO).

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

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Technology Short Take 101

Scott Lowe

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Why is this in the networking section? Because it involves IP routing and ECMP!