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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. The networking layer is a combination of hardware and software elements and services like protocols and IP addressing that enable communications between computing devices. Key components of IT infrastructure.

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eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Kentik

Since the kernel is basically the software layer between the applications you’re running and the underlying hardware, eBPF operates just about as close as you can get to the line-rate activity of a host. Second, in a busy network, devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls may be very busy operating at a relatively high CPU.

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Three Strategies for Managing APIs, Ingress, and the Edge with Kubernetes

Daniel Bryant

Deploy an additional k8s gateway, extend the existing gateway, or deploy a comprehensive self-service edge stack Refactoring applications into a microservice-style architecture package within containers and deployed into Kubernetes brings several new challenges for the edge.

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Three Strategies for Managing APIs and the Edge with Kubernetes

Daniel Bryant

KUBERNETES AND THE EDGE Deploy an additional k8s gateway, extend the existing gateway, or deploy a comprehensive self-service edge stack Refactoring applications into a microservice-style architecture package within containers and deployed into Kubernetes brings several new challenges for the edge.

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Envoy and the “Programmable Edge”: The Changing Role of Edge Proxies and Developer Experience

Daniel Bryant

Moving away from hardware-based load balancers and other edge appliances towards the software-based “programmable edge” provided by Envoy clearly has many benefits, particularly in regard to dynamism and automation. we didn’t need much control in the way of releasing our application?

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Load Balancers / Reverse Proxy. Python used to power client-side code, certain microservices, migration scripts, internal scripts. Learn to keep one or two service templates to implement microservices and don’t go wild on using different tech stack for each service. How do you handle load balancing?