DropBox & PoPs

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/11/infrastructure-update-pushing-the-edges-of-our-global-performance/

• 180ms for the light to traverse Pacific Ocean
• 90ms to traverse Atlantic Ocean
• TCP slows down everything (установить соединение)
• Proxy in CA, Texas, NewYork, Washington, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Singapore, HongKong
• User connects to these proxy (TLS, TCP handshake)
• Backbone links PoP <-> Datacenter to min average Round Trip Time per HTTPS request (Магистральная “опорная” сеть?)
• Open Peering: Major ISPs (Internet Service Provider) route Dropbox traffic through their network (400 ISPs)
• Своя собственная магистральная сеть??? Сколько стоит?

HELM-2.0

https://deis.com/blog/2016/helm-is-now-stable/

• Helm-classical was inspired by homebrew(!) github.com/helm/helm
• Jan 2016: Deis core team joined Google, Skippbox, Bitnami -> next Helm
• github.com/kubernetes/helm
• packages = charts
• stable (MariaDB, RedMine, Jenkins)
• incubator (cutting-edge Kubernetes features). May not work on all clusters.
• Future:
  • Helm plugins
  • starter packs
  • chart verification tests
  • security
  • more authentication options