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NGINX Controller Application Delivery Modules Improve Health Checks and Caching Configurations
NGINX has released new versions of their NGINX Controller Application Delivery Module, a control plane solution for NGINX Plus load balancers. The new features include enhanced workload health-checks, improvements to caching configuration, and instance groups.
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AWS Announces Gateway Load Balancer
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection, prevention systems and deep packet inspection systems in the cloud.
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The ALB Ingress Controller Is Now the AWS Load Balancer Controller
AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2.
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How Jetstack Set Up a Global Load Balancer for Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
Jetstack's engineering team talked about setting up a global load balancer across multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters while utilizing Google’s non-standard container-native load balancing with Google Cloud Armor for DDoS protection.
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High Availability for Self-Managed Kubernetes Clusters at DT One
The engineering team at DT One, a global provider of mobile top-up and reward solutions, wrote about how they implemented IP failover-based high availability for their self-managed Kubernetes cluster ingress on Hetzner’s hosting platform.
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HAProxy EBtree: Design for a Scheduler, and Use (Almost) Everywhere
At QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer.
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Load Balancing Search Traffic at Algolia with NGINX and OpenResty
Algolia’s engineering team made the switch from round-robin DNS load-balancing to a mix of DNS and NGINX with OpenResty. The solution, which uses custom Lua and Go code, and Redis-based service discovery of backend servers, helped in distributing load across their app servers and preventing latency issues.
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Highly Available MySQL Clustering at WePay Using Orchestrator, Consul and HAProxy
WePay’s engineering team talks about their new highly available MySQL cluster built with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator. It improves upon their previous architecture by reducing any downtime from 30 minutes to 40-60 seconds.
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Scaling Global Traffic at Dropbox with Edge Locations and GSLB
The Dropbox engineering team shared their experience of architecting and scaling their global network of edge locations. Located around the globe, these run a custom stack of nginx and IPVS and connect to the Dropbox backend servers over their backbone network. A combination of GeoDNS and BGP Anycast ensures availability and low latency for end users.
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Serverless Challenges in Hybrid Environments
Sam Newman, independent consultant and author of the book "Building Microservices", talked at the Velocity conference in London on the challenges faced when hybrid systems rely on both serverless architectures and traditional infrastructure. In particular, Newman discussed how serverless changes our notion of resiliency and how the two paradigms clash at times of high load in the system.
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AWS Adds Scale-Friendly Network Load Balancer to its Arsenal
AWS expanded the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service with a new product catered to high-performing applications. The Network Load Balancer is a Layer 4 TCP component designed to handle bursts of traffic and millions of requests per second.
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HelloFresh's Migration to a New API Gateway to Enable Microservices
HelloFresh recently migrated their applications to a new API gateway with zero downtime. Their Director of Engineering, Ítalo Lelis de Vietro, shared the challenges and the migration process in a recent article.
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How GitHub Designed its New Load Balancer
GitHub has been at work for the last year to develop a new load balancer, the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), aimed to be able to scale to billions of connections per day running on commodity hardware. GitHub engineers Joe Williams and Theo Julienne explain how GLB was designed.
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Improved Options for Service Load Balancing in Docker 1.12.0
With its 1.12.0 release, Docker introduced new options for load balancing of services via DNS and IP Virtual Server (IPVS) when the services are started in a Swarm cluster.
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Google Maglev: A Load Balancer on Commodity Servers
A group of engineers from Google, UCLA, and SpaceX are presenting the paper "Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer" at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '16) taking place this week. Maglev is Google’s network load balancer.