by Alex Pollitt | Sep 23, 2019 | CaaS, Calico, Kubernetes, Scaling
IBM Cloud has made a massive shift to Kubernetes. From an initial plan for a hosted Kubernetes public cloud offering it has snowballed to tens of thousands of production Kubernetes clusters running across more than 60 data centers around the globe, hosting 90% of the...
by Christopher Liljenstolpe | Jul 13, 2018 | Bgp, Networking, Scaling
Does Tigera’s Calico Support BGP Unnumbered? Lately, we’ve been talking quite a bit about network policy and security here in the Tigera blog. However, there is another aspect of Tigera’s solution, the underlying network platform that enables very scalable...
by Mike Stowe | Jul 10, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Microservices, Scaling, Scaling Microservices
Welcome to Part 3 of the Cloud Native, Microservices, Security, & Scale Series. The year is 2008. It’s been 11 years since that fateful Apollo 13 rental by Reed Hastings Jr, and Netflix is quickly growing in popularity for its no-late fee, keep as long as you...
by Mike Stowe | Jul 10, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Microservices, Scaling, Scaling Microservices
Today I came across an advertisement for the Nutanix special edition book, “Enterprise Cloud for Dummies.” Of course, I couldn’t turn down a free book, so I immediately filled in my information to receive my complimentary copy (and I’m sure an awesome conversation via...
by Mike Stowe | Jul 10, 2017 | Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Microservices, Scaling, Scaling Microservices
Welcome to Part 2 of the Cloud Native, Microservices, Security, & Scale Series. The year is 1997. Reed Hastings Jr. walks into Blockbuster carrying a copy of Apollo 13 — a movie he rented more than six weeks earlier, and is met with a hefty $40 late fee charge. A...