Gary's Shared Google Reader ItemsIt’s been a while since I’ve assessed new load balancers. At my previous gig, we had used LVS successfully for 5 years. It worked great, but was a bit of a configuration nightmare. I think I went through 2 or 3 different frameworks to handle configuration and backend server monitoring.
I’ve just reached the load balancing [...]
I was very happy when I opened my email this morning. Amazon has announced Elastic IPs and Availability Zones. It’s time to update your EC2 tools!
The Elastic IP implementation looks good. There must be some smart engineers working at Amazon. I haven’t played with it yet, but I have some ideas on how to use it.
My first thought [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve fired up an EC2 instance. I want to get in and look around and see how it’s all changed.
In particular, I’m interested in what’s going on in their load balancing world. I have 3 ideas on how it could be working. I thought it would be interesting if I wrote [...]
