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Active-Active DCs Networking Problem

Active-Active DCs Networking Problem

  Problem One interesting problem I was asked to solve from a networking aspect was: How to build an Active-Active DCs (Data Centers)? How do we ensure the ingress and egress traffic flows use the most efficient path especially around host mobility? Background Why would an organisation want Active-Active DCs? From a business point of view, we want to run everything hot and maximise our return on investment. Why should we have resources idling by for an off-chance that our…

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Automating Ourselves Out Of A Job

Automating Ourselves Out Of A Job

Due to my previous experience in DevOps, I sometime get dragged into conversations on “automating ourselves out of a job”.  This blog post will highlight my opinions on this subject.   Why? When I observe a company discuss DevOps and automation for the first time. It usually starts off with a business leader excitedly claim that “insert peer company name” was able to solve some outage from hours to minutes due to automation. Or they claim a fault was resolved…

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