Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by joshAg on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:32PM (#19362538)

It's way more than that. Yeah the base OS on the machine is Linux, but there's a lot of extra stuff they do all the way down to the hardware layer.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by rhacker on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:06PM (#19362830)

So what does the likes of AWS (for example) use for load balancing for data coming into its various private clouds... f5s?

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by ignoramous on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:32PM (#19363043)

Here's the ever excellent Eric Brandwine explaining what AWS does at L3 wrt VPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E

Here's the super versatile Colm Mac explaining what AWS does at L4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gc2DgBqo9U

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Google has been very open about their network infrastructure, here's a nice summary from 2015: https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/08/pulling-back-curtain-on-go... and not mentioned in that blog... their NetworkLoadBalancer, Maglev: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-shares-sof... (AWS equivalent of which would be HyperPlane: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/networking-scale-2018-l... allegedly based on S3's load balancer).

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by ikiris on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:30PM (#19363021)

the short version is "magic".

The long version is, "varying degrees of horror"

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by kevan on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:14PM (#19362885)

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