A couple days ago I said that we had completed all the research we were ever going to do for the 'frontends' chapter, that we weren't going to install any more, because I didn't want to get into a cycle of chasing their upgrades.
In retrospect, I may have been lying.
See, the issue is that, while Xen is a cool technology, it's also fundamentally kind of boring. It makes stuff possible by adding a new layer of abstraction and encapsulation, but until tools are written to take advantage of it, there's really not much point. In some ways the frontend chapter, therefore, is a tremendous opportunity. (Rather than, as we've been viewing it, a digression on clunky substitutes for expressive command-line tools.)
So I'm going to add some stuff about OpenQRM, based on a tip from our technical reviewer, because it looks like it's got some neat datacenter-oriented features that take advantage of Xen for load balancing and such.
There is power in the virtualization concept -- it's not really just about more little boxen. Got to keep that in mind.
In retrospect, I may have been lying.
See, the issue is that, while Xen is a cool technology, it's also fundamentally kind of boring. It makes stuff possible by adding a new layer of abstraction and encapsulation, but until tools are written to take advantage of it, there's really not much point. In some ways the frontend chapter, therefore, is a tremendous opportunity. (Rather than, as we've been viewing it, a digression on clunky substitutes for expressive command-line tools.)
So I'm going to add some stuff about OpenQRM, based on a tip from our technical reviewer, because it looks like it's got some neat datacenter-oriented features that take advantage of Xen for load balancing and such.
There is power in the virtualization concept -- it's not really just about more little boxen. Got to keep that in mind.
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