The Weekly Weird - 2015-05-29
- I've been reading about Kubernates (http://kubernetes.io/ ) and ended up down a rabbit hole which ended with Calico which is just too clever for words. They're using BGP on the container/vm node with a big leaf and spine ethernet (note not IP) network to give every vm or container a real IP: http://docs.projectcalico.org/en/latest/l2-interconnectFabric.html
- It sounds kind of nuts but if you think about it it makes sense. If you have to figure out how to let tens or hundreds of thousands of computers talk to each other why not take advantage of the one protocol that we already know works because we have an internet.
- Mirage on bare metal? Sure! https://www.freelists.org/post/rumpkernel-users/OCaml-and-Mirage-now-running-on-rumprun-including-bare-metal
- "As a result [of the Darfield Earthquake] the towns of Darfield and Rolleston are now two metres closer together." http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/03/08/distorted-railway-lines-in-the-christchurch-earthquake/
- For the chess aficionados out there: http://magazine.storycollider.org/2012/features/the-departed-queen/view-all/
- Unicode is, well, insane: http://www.benfrederickson.com/unicode-insanity/
- And of course if a big company announces some thing some open source guys have to one-up them: https://lwn.net/Articles/645455/ and https://hyper.sh/
- I can't wait to see this thing at full speed. Of course it'll probably be the last thing I see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU
- "Try to imagine how hard it would be to skin a Komodo dragon." http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-dragon-autopsy/393890/