Interesting Snippets from 2013-11-27

• Cloud Platform Blog: Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1 million requests per second!

  The C10k problem is so last century. How about serving 1 million load balanced requests per second in the cloud? Using publicly available Google Cloud Platform services, including Google Compute Load Balancing, we have done exactly that. Within 5 seconds after the setup and without any pre-warming, our load balancer was able to serve 1 million requests per second and sustain that level.

• About Docker - Docker: the Linux container engine

  Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.

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