Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com

Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by wmf on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:33PM (#13153794)

This is one rack of equipment; no spines are needed. http://blog.ipspace.net/2014/10/all-you-need-are-two-top-of-...

Cumulus isn't really SDN so I'm not sure what you're saying there.

Traditional networking is fine but it's totally different than Linux so you need dedicated netops people to manage it. And Cisco is the most expensive traditional vendor.

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Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by lykron on Sunday December 11, 2016 @05:39PM (#13153830)

I'm not super well-versed in the networking area. I misread the posting. I thought they were looking at 64Us of servers.

I've just gotten the notion that SDN is almost ready for primetime, just not yet.

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Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by bronson on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:38PM (#13154230)

It's been almost ready for primetime for over a decade now.

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