Editorial Archive

  • Tales of Load Balancing Horror

    Tales of Load Balancing Horror

    It’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...

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  • Your Epic Fail:  Fast or Slow?

    Your Epic Fail: Fast or Slow?

    In 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...

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  • Moore’s Law and Bandwidth Consumption

    Moore’s Law and Bandwidth Consumption

    Most 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...

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  • Someone Is Wrong On The Internet…

    Someone Is Wrong On The Internet…

    I’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...

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