Tech Reviews

Reviews of existing technologies

  • IPVS, iptables and kube-proxy

    This is an overview of the underlying technologies that drives load balancing. It covers LVS, Netfilter, iptables, IPVS and eventually kube-proxy. LVS (Linux Virtual Server)…

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  • Docker storage

    Microservices are all about stateless and ephemeral workloads, and containers are great microservices. This may suggest that that Docker is all about ephemeral storage. In…

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  • Docker components

    The previous post about virtualization and containerization brought up some underlying technologies which Docker build containers on, including: In this post we further discuss the…

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  • Intro to Big Data Projects

    Modern applications produce super large datasets beyond what traditional data-processing application can handle. Big data is a discipline that specialize in processing such data. For…

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  • Zookeeper Summary

    Distributed systems Distributed system involves independent computing entities linked together by network. The components communicate and coordinate with each other to achieve a common goal.…

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  • Virtualization 4 of 4 – Networking

    Virtual LAN (VLAN) Although VLAN emerged before virtualization and is technically not part of virtualization topic. I’d just like to start from here as a…

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