keyboardsamurai's questions

I have a running Kubernetes cluster that aggregates it's logfiles in stackdriver and would like to tail the aggregated logs on the command line. But so far I am only able to view the json stream float by in the web interface or fetch historic logging data with a command like gcloud beta logging read 'resource.type="container" jsonPayload.service:("my-service") timestamp >= "2017-06-22T16:00:00+02:00"' --format=json.

Is there no way in GCE for me to build an aggregated real time view of the current log entries, like you would get from a tail -f?

I'm considering a file distribution between branch offices that uses Bittorrent. I understand that a Bittorrent client needs ports in the range of 6881-6999 to be forwarded to the internet to make the transfer faster.

What I don't understand is: how does this make things faster? I could understand if failing to provide proper means of communication between clients would prevent them from speaking to each other. But everywhere I look I just see the advice "Just forward the ports and the transfer will speed up".

Sorry if this seems off topic, but it strikes me as network related.

Faced with the task of testing the leftover bandwidth capacity for 100+ locations multiple times a day, I asked myself if there is some sort of software package you can install on these computers and have them make upload/download tests, then report back to a central server automatically. Does anyone know of a solution that can do that? Bonus points for a solution that runs on Windows and doesn't require me to install extra runtimes.