Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5. Personally, I’d love to see the KVM option explained.). Why is this in the networking section? Because it involves IP routing and ECMP!

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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. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

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). And since Kevin didn’t define TDP—shame, shame!—see A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. William Lam has an update on the 7th-generation Intel NUC and ESXi 6.x. Check it out if you’re considering the latest Intel NUC for your home lab. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. If you were at VMworld 2016 last year, this is the integration we demoed live in this Spotlight Session. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” ” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The first speaker starts out with a review of exactly what a microserver is; Intel sees microservers as a natural evolution from rack-mounted servers to blades to microservers. Key microserver technologies include: Intel Atom C2000 family of processors; Intel Xeon E5 v2 processor family; and Intel Ethernet Switch FM6000 series.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For this episode, know that individual companies can sponsor their own, such as Apple having an invite only bug bounty which can offer over a million dollars for specific bug classes, while Google and Intel have more open bounty programs. Then there are the aggregators, companies like BugCrowd or HackerOne. How does communication work?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For this episode, know that individual companies can sponsor their own, such as Apple having an invite only bug bounty which can offer over a million dollars for specific bug classes, while Google and Intel have more open bounty programs. Then there are the aggregators, companies like BugCrowd or HackerOne. How does communication work?

Programming 40

Programming Internet Research Travel 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

For this episode, know that individual companies can sponsor their own, such as Apple having an invite only bug bounty which can offer over a million dollars for specific bug classes, while Google and Intel have more open bounty programs. Then there are the aggregators, companies like BugCrowd or HackerOne. How does communication work?

Programming 40

Programming Internet Research Travel 40

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

KVM is the set of kernel modules that leverage hardware virtualization functionality inside Intel and AMD CPUs, and it makes possible the virtualization of closed-source operating systems like Windows. Why is this important? It’s first necessary to understand the relationship between QEMU and KVM. Ben Armstrong shows how here.

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