Feature Articles Archive

  • My recent Quick Look videos were inspired in large part by the highly hilarious “You Suck At Photoshop” series, which features 10 tutorials by the long-suffering Donnie Hoyle, Photoshop extrodinarre....

    SMB: Keeping It Off The Load Balancer

    My recent Quick Look videos were inspired in large part by the highly hilarious “You Suck At Photoshop” series, which features 10 tutorials by the long-suffering Donnie Hoyle, Photoshop extrodinarre....

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  • Eight years ago I wrote an article called “It’s Always The Load Balancer“, and eight years later, that’s still the case. But despite being the undeserved scape-goat of an infrastructure’s...

    Top 5 Gotchas of Load Balancing (That Actually Are Your Fault… Sorta)

    Eight years ago I wrote an article called “It’s Always The Load Balancer“, and eight years later, that’s still the case. But despite being the undeserved scape-goat of an infrastructure’s...

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  • A great little tool for Windows systems is the command “netstat -e“. I shall explain. A bane of of the network is the insidious duplex mismatch issue. This is when,...

    Duplex Mismatch Windows Tip

    A great little tool for Windows systems is the command “netstat -e“. I shall explain. A bane of of the network is the insidious duplex mismatch issue. This is when,...

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  • Here’s one of the trickier issues that can sometimes come up with load balancing. You’ve setup load balancing for a couple of application servers, and at least on a TCP...

    There’s No One Here By That Name

    Here’s one of the trickier issues that can sometimes come up with load balancing. You’ve setup load balancing for a couple of application servers, and at least on a TCP...

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  • As I’ve stated before, I think it’s important to keep in mind that the load balancer/application delivery market is actually two separate markets: The enterprise market and the value market....

    Two Markets Reminder

    As I’ve stated before, I think it’s important to keep in mind that the load balancer/application delivery market is actually two separate markets: The enterprise market and the value market....

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  • Sounds kind of like a 007 reference, but really it was a Beastie Boys reference. At first I thought it might be too young for my target audience, but then...

    License To S-S-Ill

    Sounds kind of like a 007 reference, but really it was a Beastie Boys reference. At first I thought it might be too young for my target audience, but then...

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  • Back when load balancers were the toast of the town, there were two competing methods for GSLB (Geographic Server Load Balancing). The first method was through use of DNS (and...

    State Of GSLB: DNS FTW

    Back when load balancers were the toast of the town, there were two competing methods for GSLB (Geographic Server Load Balancing). The first method was through use of DNS (and...

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  • I could have gone a couple of different ways with the title, including “You alright! I learned it from watching you!” and “I’m not the one with a problem, you...

    Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted To Control Languages

    I could have gone a couple of different ways with the title, including “You alright! I learned it from watching you!” and “I’m not the one with a problem, you...

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  • Back in 2000, I wrote an article entitled “Parsing With Precision” for Network World Magazine. The gist of the article is that x86-based load balancers were going the way of...

    ASIC Debate Redux

    Back in 2000, I wrote an article entitled “Parsing With Precision” for Network World Magazine. The gist of the article is that x86-based load balancers were going the way of...

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  • If you’re like me, not long after you learned about the IP protocol, someone told you about the eminent IP address crisis. For me, it was the late 90′s, and...

    IPV6: The Sky Is Falling

    If you’re like me, not long after you learned about the IP protocol, someone told you about the eminent IP address crisis. For me, it was the late 90′s, and...

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