Yesterday at DockerCon Europe, Andrey Sibiryov, a senior engineer at Uber Technologies, demonstrated how to improve load-balancing performance using an open-source technology that’s been part of the Linux kernel for more than a decade — IPVS. What Is IPVS?To be precise, IPVS (IP Virtual Server) has been in the kernel for 15 years, and it’s based on netfilter. It supports TCP, SCTP, and UDP and can

