Strange that they claim Lee pioneered Anycast usage. Anycast was created when Lee was 2 years old. Afaik, CacheFly was the first big CDN to make Anycast edge networks back in 2002, along with EdgeCast in 2006, then Microsoft, Limelight, etc.
The "Cell architecture" is also an old idea we used back in 2006. First install all your software on all your nodes. Then have an agent on the box poll a custom REST API endpoint that looks up the host in the CMDB/IMDB and generates a config file. That config file is stored on the box and used to inform a CM tool to start the services that box should be running. You run multiple different network and app services per box to maximize the hardware in use, so you don't have idle nodes wasting money, power and rack space (the redundancy is a bonus/efficiency gain)
Sounds like a talented guy. Terrible to hear what happened to him.
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Strange that they claim Lee pioneered Anycast usage. Anycast was created when Lee was 2 years old. Afaik, CacheFly was the first big CDN to make Anycast edge networks back in 2002, along with EdgeCast in 2006, then Microsoft, Limelight, etc.
The "Cell architecture" is also an old idea we used back in 2006. First install all your software on all your nodes. Then have an agent on the box poll a custom REST API endpoint that looks up the host in the CMDB/IMDB and generates a config file. That config file is stored on the box and used to inform a CM tool to start the services that box should be running. You run multiple different network and app services per box to maximize the hardware in use, so you don't have idle nodes wasting money, power and rack space (the redundancy is a bonus/efficiency gain)
Sounds like a talented guy. Terrible to hear what happened to him.