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Cyber Espionage Campaign ‘Slingshot’ Targets Victims Via Routers – Threatpost
Mikrotik routers as an attack vector
Show 380: Network Engineer Roundtable: What’s On Your Mind?
Today's Weekly Show gathers a group of network engineers to talk about what's on their minds. Our roundtable covers automation, vendor relationships, not knowing things (and how to change that) & more. The post Show 380: Network Engineer Roundtable: What’s On Your Mind? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Why GE Digital Failed | Inc.com
Yet another big, dumb company telling lies about innovation and digital.
How Many Bandwidths Does An SD-WAN Need? – Video
Comparing the complexity of a private and public WANShow 379: Grappling With Promise Theory
Mark Burgess, who developed the principles of Promise Theory as a way to model distributed systems, joins the Packet Pushers to explore how his ideas connect to networking and information systems. The post Show 379: Grappling With Promise Theory appeared first on Packet Pushers.
When Will BGP Become Unfashionable? – Video
If we're ever going to find a replacement for BGP, we'll need to build a community that draws interest and attention. Where will the next fashion come from?
The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change – Om Malik
Facebook makes$27 per quarter from US consumers - it cannot possibly change.
Show 378: Cisco Zero Touch Provisioning (Sponsored)
Today's Weekly Show explores Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) with sponsor Cisco. We'll look at doing ZTP at scale, plus drill into iPXE and ONIE, golden ISOs, and integration with tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. The post Show 378: Cisco Zero Touch Provisioning (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Big Changes Ahead for Core Internet Protocols – IETF Journal
Excellent summary of what seems to be poorly understood. IPv6 is going nowhere slowly but the higher level protocols are changing today. Now, significant changes to the core Internet protocols are underway. While they are intended to be compatible with the Internet at large (since they won’t get adoption otherwise), they might be disruptive to […]
NANOG Keynote: History of the Internet (it was not the bomb)
Scott Bradner retired in late 2016 after more than 50 years in Harvard University IT. Along the way he worked in the IETF for 25 years – 10 on the IESG – and served on the ISOC & ARIN boards.
Evidence-based Troubleshooting: Observations on Problem-solving from Economic Psychology
Excellent piece on psychology of being a technology worker. MUST READ. For those of us who work in technology, we pride ourselves in our rationalism. We deal in the territory of binary math, algorithms, and logic. Yet we often fail to step back and see ourselves as mere mortals. We acknowledge some disciplines suffer from […]
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results — Quartz
The complexity of modern problems often precludes any one person from fully understanding them. Factors contributing to rising obesity levels, for example, include transportation systems and infrastructure, media, convenience foods, changing social norms, human biology and psychological factors. Designing an aircraft carrier, to take another example, requires knowledge of nuclear engineering, naval architecture, metallurgy, hydrodynamics, […]
Project management was the worst thing that ever happened to IT | The IT Skeptic
Goals and outcomes change. ITIL-centric projects do not.
