Japan’s curious love for old-school flip-phones continues
Outmoded technology dies hard in futuristic Japan.Telegrams remain popular, the fax machine industry is alive and well and now shipments of feature phones are on the rise.For the first time in seven years, shipments of old-school flip phones increased in 2014 while those of smartphones fell. While it may be a statistical anomaly, Japan’s flip phones are highly evolved devices with unique features that keep them popular.Feature phones notched a 5.7 percent gain last year to 10.5 million units, compared to a 5.3 percent drop in smartphone shipments to 27.7 million, according to MM Research Institute (MMRI), which noted that Apple retains a dominant smartphone share of about 60 percent. The MMRI study followed feature phones, which in Japan consist mainly of flip phones,To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
In our last post, we looked at how Kubernetes handles the bulk of it’s networking. What we didn’t cover yet, was how to access services deployed in the Kubernetes cluster from outside the cluster. Obviously services that live in pods can be accessed directly as each pod has its own routable IP address. But what if we want something a little more dynamic? What if we used a replication controller to scale our web front end? We have the Kubernetes service, but what I would call its VIP range (Portal Net) isn’t routable on the network. There are a couple of ways to solve this problem. Let’s walk through the problem and talk about a couple of ways to solve it. I’ll demonstrate the way I chose to solve it but that doesn’t imply that there aren’t other better ways as well.