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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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

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. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. Operating Systems/Applications. This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around, sorry! Check this out.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. 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 ?

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60