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Author: Gareth Evans via Hampshire
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To: Andrew Howe via Hampshire
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Hi Andrew,

Many thanks for digging up the slides, and for your other links. I'm currently looking into doing a CCNA and thought LB was perhaps an area I should know more about in practice.

Thanks,
Gareth

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, at 16:47, Andrew Howe via Hampshire wrote:
> Hi Gareth,
>
> Apologies: I replied to your original message with the slides you mentioned attached, but it looks like the reply got stuck in the mailing list system.
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> I've removed the attachment and replaced it with a Google Drive link which hopefully you can access.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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> Hi Gareth,
>
> I've squashed down and attached the slides from my January 2019 PLUG talk on load balancing with the Linux kernel: hopefully they make it through via e-mail **[They didn't: see this Google Drive link <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UB4z4hP2O3Aj7dJ50cCMYq2KYC7l5Hge/view?usp=sharing> instead]**. The slides aren't _too_ detailed, but it might be a starting point for you.
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> Is your query about load balancing in relation to a specific project or more curiosity?
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> Two places I'd recommend starting from:
> * Using the Linux kernel (via IPVS/LVS) is still a strong load balancing solution (see: http://linux-vs.org/whatis.html, and this video I produced about LVS and one of its most useful modes, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOH_LOGaKo)
> * A more 'modern' approach might be to use a full reverse proxy type load balancing solution: HAProxy is an amazing FLOSS project that does this very well (see its homepage: http://www.haproxy.org/, and its extensive documentation: https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/)
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> Happy to offer specific advice if I can; load balancing is still my day job ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 19:41, Gareth Evans via Hampshire <hampshire@???> wrote:
>> Hello all,
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>> 1. Is it generally worth posting to both the Hampshire and Portsmouth lists? ie is Portsmouth (by virtue of membership) a subset of Hampshire? Just thinking I might be missing potential expertise by tending to post only to Hants.
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>> 2. Are there any slides/notes etc for the Load Balancing talk back in Jan 2019? I somehow missed it at the time. Much as I would like to come to the talks (when physical rather than virtual), that would probably be quite challenging as I'm deaf, so I would be grateful for slides/notes etc if any. Couldn't see anything on the website and just thought I'd ask.
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>> 3. Book recommendations would be appreciated re:
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>> i load balancing
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>> ii software-defined networking
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>> Thanks,
>> Gareth
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