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Archive for October, 2009
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Tales of Load Balancing Horror
Posted on October 29, 2009 | 2 CommentsIt’s halloween, and I think it’s time for some scary stories. I give you… TALES OF LOAD BALANCING HORRORS! For tales of persistent terror, challenging your keep-alive, I give you the following vignettes. (Names have been changed to protect my ass, as well as to... -
There Are No More Webservers Left
Posted on October 27, 2009 | 1 CommentThere are no more web servers left on the Internet. -
One Arm, One Network, To Rule Them All
Posted on October 25, 2009 | 1 CommentOk, I’m not really a Tolkin fan (you dare speak such heresy! -ed), but I couldn’t resist the nerd reference. Especially from a guy with a license plate that says “NERD 1″ (I’m not kidding). This post covers network topology, which is how the load... -
Your Epic Fail: Fast or Slow?
Posted on October 11, 2009 | No CommentsIn the load balancing world, many vendors have the concept of “sorry servers”, or “backup server farms/pools”. Essentially, if most or all of your primary servers are down, traffic is redirected to a backup server(s) containing either reinforcements of the same web application, or a... -
What the #@!$ Is a Cloud?
Posted on October 4, 2009 | 3 CommentsLarry Ellison, the somewhat eccentric CEO of Oracle, has long been on my short list of “if there really are super villains, they are certainly one of them”. But funny as well as insightful? I never really considered that possibility. And yet here is an...