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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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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Networking. Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. 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 now for the content!

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Networking. Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance.

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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. Rodriguez shares some details on Expedient’s experience with Intel AES-NI, 10 GbE, and DDIO.

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Technology Short Take 101

Scott Lowe

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

Networking. 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. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Networking. Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance.