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

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

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. It also requires hard drives to provide reliable long-term storage. Spreading the load in this manner reduces latency and eliminates bottlenecks.

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Data Artificial Intelligence Intel Data Center 111

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 hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Virtualization.

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