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Heavy Networking 456: How To Choose A Higher Ed Program For An IT Career
Today's Heavy Networking explores how to select a higher-ed program for your computer science education, including the key elements of a CS degree, community college vs. 4-year institutions, measuring educational costs and returns, and more. Our guest is Aaron Francis, a systems engineer and instructor.
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Heavy Networking 455: The Wonderful World Of Wireless – Beacons, Probes, SSIDs And More
The Packet Pushers' latest crash course podcast on wireless for wired engineers dives into beacons, roaming, SSIDs, the ugly reality of band steering, and more WLAN nerdery. Our guest is Chris Reed.
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Heavy Networking 454: Analyzing Encrypted Traffic In The TLS 1.3 Era With ExtraHop (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking examines packet analysis with sponsor ExtraHop. We drill into the company's marketing claims about deep analysis at line rate with Mike Ernst, VP of Sales Engineering. We also tackle how ExtraHop handles encrypted traffic, incuding TLS 1.3 and Perfect Forward Secrecy. Mike promises to keep his inner salesperson on mute for this conversation.
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Datanauts 166: Can You Hire ‘DevOps’?
Matt Stratton beams aboard the Datanauts starship to share his opinions and experiences with DevOps. Is DevOps a role you can hire for, or a culture you create? If it's the later, how do you get started, what are the impacts, and how do you iterate?
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Heavy Networking 452: Using NetBox As A Source Of Networking Truth
Today's Heavy Networking opens NetBox, an open-source IPAM and DCIM project that can also be used to model your network and serve as a source of truth. Our guest is NetBox contributor John Anderson.
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Heavy Networking 450: Getting To Know The Open-Source VyOS Network OS
Today's Heavy Networking digs into VyOS, an open-source, Linux-based network OS for routing. Forked from the Vyatta Core, VyOS includes a full routing stack and features including firewalling, VPN, and more. Guest Yuriy Andamasov, the project coordinator, gives us a guided tour.
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Heavy Networking 449: Web Application Firewall Fundamentals
Today's Heaving Networking episode delves into Web application firewalls (WAFs) with guest Scott Hogg. We examine how WAFs differ from typical firewalls, the security problems they're trying to solve, how attackers try to bypass them, operational challenges, WAFs and cloud applications, and more.
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The Mythical Eight Hour Workday
I haven’t tracked my time in many years. I’ve always felt the practice was a nuisance. Hey, I’m busy. I have a lot to do. I’m working on it. Don’t distract me with a time sheet. You know what I do, boss, right? Do I really have to document my daily doings?
Working for myself means I don’t have to perform such trivial tasks, and of course, I don’t. However, I have been wondering over the last month where my workday goes. Often, it feels like I park my tush in my office chair, begin working on tasks, and then the day is suddenly over.
Except that often, the day isn’t over. My workday ends when I’ve accomplished everything I need to for that day. Eight hours gone by? Whatever. Head down. Keep at it. Get everything done. The list won’t get shorter tomorrow. If I want to get paid, I have to get my work done.
The Final Countdown
With more days than I want falling into a pattern of working more hours than I’d like, I’ve gotten serious about determining what the problem is. Do I need to turn away projects? Should I hire someone to handle some Continue reading
BiB 077: Attend Gluware Intent ’19 With The Packet Pushers In NYC On May 14, 2019
Gluware Intent is a live event we're holding in NYC on May 14, 2019. Come hang out with the Packet Pushers, the Gluware team, and customers to learn about practical network automation. Register via https://packetpushers.net/gluware to reserve your seat, hear presentations, and see the Packet Pushers record a Heavy Networking episode live.
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Heavy Networking 446: How Open Systems Integrates Security And SD-WAN As A Service
Open Systems integrates security and SD-WAN as a service, including next-gen firewalls and Web gateways. They're the sponsor for today's Heavy Networking podcast. We discuss Open Systems' architecture, how it applies SD-WAN and security policies to traffic, and how Open Systems differentiates itself in this crowded market.
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Heavy Networking 445: An Introduction To The Nornir Automation Framework
Nornir is a Python-based framework that automates fussy, backend details to let you focus on business logic. On today's Heavy Networking, we explore this project, how it works, and what it can do in your network, with three of Nornir's contributors.
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Heavy Networking 443: Architects Vs. Engineers – What’s The Difference?
What's the difference between network architects and network engineers? On today's Heavy Networking we gather four people who've held both roles to explore this question. Topics include the career path to becoming an architect, the tradeoffs, and advice for those pursuing such a role.
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Datanauts 162: From Tech Support To Cloud Architect – An Opinionated Career Path
Looking to elevate your skills from on-prem hardware monkey to cloudy diva? In this Datanauts episode, we explore one person's career path from tech support to cloud architect, and get his opinions on key cloud tools and issues.
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Heavy Networking 440: A Wireless Deployment Crash Course
Today's Heavy Networking is a crash course in executing a new wireless deployment for engineers who are wired, not wireless, experts. We explore how and why to gather user and technical requirements, understanding the RF environment, channel management, and more. Our guest is Robert Boardman.
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Heavy Networking 439: When Routine Turn-Ups Turn Evil
On Heavy Networking, Chris Parker joins Ethan Banks to delve into the details of a perplexing troubleshooting session with a recalcitrant firewall, how the problem was finally solved, and what Chris learned from the experience.
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BiB 074: Replace iSCSI With NVMe/TCP From Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs has announced a software defined storage with hardware acceleration product. In a nutshell, the product is a global flash translation layer that decouples SSDs and compute. Put your compute wherever, mount a box full of fast storage via Lightbits using the NVMe over TCP protocol, and get storage latency that performs like directly attached storage, but without the waste of space. Lightbits is aiming this offering at folks running their own composable stack who want an API and storage speed. But another big winning use case? iSCSI replacement. Hmm...interesting!
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Datanauts 161: Building Application Resilience On Azure
Just because your application is in the cloud doesn't mean you can forget about resiliency. On today's Datanauts episode, guest Tom Vachon shares insights and tips on how to design a resilient infrastructure in Azure. We discuss availability zones, availability sets, paired regions, and more, as well as how to balance cost against resilience, and the role of DNS.
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BiB 073: HammerSpace Data-as-a-Microservice For Kubernetes
HammerSpace announced the ability to provide a global namespace for persistent storage in Kubernetes environments. HammerSpace has tackled this issue with what they are calling data-as-a-microservice. This is not a new type of K8s specific storage, which HammerSpace thinks is about the last thing the Kubernetes world needs. More importantly, HammerSpace is trying to answer the question, “How do we get storage to evolving workloads?”
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Network Neighborhood – Meet Denise “Fish” Fishburne
Denise "Fish" Fishburne chats with Ethan Banks. The conversation covers being arrested at 19 for DUI, being gay in the corporate world of the 80's and 90's, overcoming the challenge of being easily bored, teaching without ego, struggling with a distrust of others, the myth of the self-made person, and becoming an active member of the "Network Neighborhood."
For Denise, it's all about community. "All for one, and one for all."
Want more Fish?
https://networkingwithfish.com
https://twitter.com/denisefishburne
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-fishburne-b50b7277/
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