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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... -
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... -
Moore’s Law and Bandwidth Consumption
Posted on May 27, 2009 | 1 CommentMost in IT are familiar with the concept of Moore’s Law, whereby processor capability tends to double about every two years. To a certain extent, this happens with networking equipment, with their capacity increasing at a steady rate, although probably not the same rate at... -
Someone Is Wrong On The Internet…
Posted on April 28, 2009 | No CommentsI’d read the O3 Magazine article by John Buswell with great interest, as well as Lori MacVittie’s response article. I thought they both made great points as I said in my previous post, and I was content to leave it at that. Then I read...