Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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 really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Networking. John Arundel is excited about CUE.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

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. ” and “faker.js”

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

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 really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Networking. John Arundel is excited about CUE.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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