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F5 Friday: Gracefully Scaling Down

What goes up, must come down. The question is how much it hurts (the user). An oft ignored side of elasticity is scaling down. Everyone associates scaling out/up with elasticity of cloud co...
Published Aug 06, 2010
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FYI. I wrote a small tcp daemon, that will be used as additional health check. The daemon provides nice server side setup for system admins to announce state of the service manually, or by using other software.

 

 

https://github.com/kerolasa/f5gs

 

 

The code is as production ready as any open source, i.e., if it does not work I can try to fix the issue(s), and will definitely welcome feedback and patches.

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