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> Nobody needs to be a network guy to run a data center. the complexity from networking at a DC mainly comes from scale. running enterprsie/dc hardware in a h
by kazen44 5y ago
> Nobody needs to be a network guy to run a data center.
the complexity from networking at a DC mainly comes from scale.
running enterprsie/dc hardware in a homelab is vastly different from running it in production.
- hansel_der 5y agoyour argument seems to hinge on the perspective on "scale" i.e. enthusiast homelabs from today have sufficient capacity/performance to accomodate production scenarios ("at scale") from 20y ago. besides the need for appreciation of ones work, everybody, all the time, is cooking with water.
- kazen44 5y agowhat i actually meant to say was that multitenancy makes networking complex. (and nearly any network is multi-tenant once it reaches a certain scale). Also, depending on the services which run on the network, more complex technology like MPLS/VXLAN-EVPN is needed.
- ghosty141 5y ago>running enterprsie/dc hardware in a homelab is vastly different from running it in production. This applies to all of software. Enterprise and "home" diverged quite a lot. Back in the 2000s running a webserver at home was roughly similar to doing it for a company. Nowadays they are nothing alike with all the load balancing, caching etc. etc.