SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — February 1, 2019
The Linux Foundation gains a mapping platform; Intel plans a new chip factory in Oregon; and Google Cloud adds a serverless document database.
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 3: Audacity, Diversity and Change
This is part 3 of a six part series based on a talk I gave in Trento, Italy. To start from the beginning go here.
After Cloudbleed, lots of things changed. We started to move away from memory-unsafe languages like C and C++ (there’s a lot more Go and Rust now). And every SIGABRT or crash on any machine results in an email to me and a message to the team responsible. And I don’t let the team leave those problems to fester.
Making 1.1.1.1
So Cloudbleed was a terrible time. Let’s talk about a great time. The launch of our public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. That launch is a story of an important Cloudflare quality: audacity. Google had launched 8.8.8.8 years ago and had taken the market for a public DNS resolver by storm. Their address is easy to remember, their service is very fast.
But we thought we could do better. We thought we could be faster, and we thought we could be more memorable. Matthew asked us to get the address 1.1.1.1 and launch a secure, privacy-preserving, public DNS resolver in a couple of months. Continue reading
Ethernity ENET vRouter Aimed at a Programmable Network Bottleneck
The platform divides the two flows – the control layer and the data layer – and handles them in a way that makes sense for each.
Community Network Champions Take a Rural Dip in India
By Digital Empowerment Foundation
In the last 25 years, half the world has been connected to the Internet and the almost infinite opportunities it has to offer. Most of these, among the 3.5 billion connected individuals of the world, are people who are largely economically empowered, literate, and reside in urban or accessible areas. However, there is also half the world that is yet to get online and access what the Internet has to offer them.
The biggest barrier to widespread connectivity is the high cost of infrastructure. With many telecom companies unwilling or unable to build infrastructure in far flung and rural areas, large swathes of the world have remained in media darkness. Evidently, most of those who are excluded from digital ecosystems are people who are largely at the bottom of the pyramid and reside in rural or inaccessible areas. They are people who have not been connected by the mainstream Internet Service Providers (ISP) – and who may have to wait a long time to be connected.
So who will take the responsibility of connecting them?
It has to be the community themselves.
Over the years, community network providers have proved to be great enablers for Continue reading
Why Lenovo’s One to Watch in 2019
The data center server vendor made several smart partnerships around HCI and cloud last year, and now it’s moving into edge and IoT.
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 1: How I came to work here
This is the text I prepared for a talk at Speck&Tech in Trento, Italy. I thought it might make a good blog post. Because it is 6,000 words I've split it into six separate posts.
Here's part 1:
I’ve worked at Cloudflare for more than seven years. Cloudflare itself is more than eight years old. So, I’ve been there since it was a very small company. About twenty people in fact. All of those people (except one, me) worked from an office in San Francisco. I was the lone member of the London office.
Today there are 900 people working at Cloudflare spread across offices in San Francisco, Austin, Champaign IL, New York, London, Munich, Singapore and Beijing. In London, my “one-person office” (which was my spare bedroom) is now almost 200 people and in a month, we’ll move into new space opposite Big Ben.
The numbers tell a story about enormous growth. But it’s growth that’s been very carefully managed. We could have grown much faster (in terms of people); we’ve certainly raised enough money to do so.
I ended up at Cloudflare because I gave a really good talk at a conference. Well, Continue reading
Automatic versus Manual NetFlow Deduplication
The post Automatic versus Manual NetFlow Deduplication appeared first on Noction.
Worth Reading: Should I Write a Book?
Erik Dietrich (of the Expert Beginner fame) published another great blog post explaining when and why you should write a book. For the attention-challenged here’s my CliffNotes version:
- Realize you have no idea what you’re doing (see also: Dunning-Kruger effect)
- Figure out why you’d want to spend a significant amount of your time on a major project like book writing;
- It will take longer (and will be more expensive) than you expect even when considering Hofstadter’s law.
Understanding RSVP EROs
In our last post we covered the basics of getting an RSVP LSP setup. This was a tedious process at least when compared to what we saw with LDP setting up LSPs. So I think it’s worthwhile to spend some time talking about RSVP and what it offers that merit it’s consideration as a label distribution protocol. First off – let’s talk about naming. When talking about MPLS – RSVP is typically just called RSVP – but without the MPLS context – it might be a little confusing. That’s because RSVP itself initially had nothing to do with MPLS. RSVP was initially a means to reserve resources for flows across a network. The protocol was then extended to support setting up MPLS LSPs. In this use case, it is often referred to as “RSVP-TE” or “MPLS RSVP-TE”. For the sake of my sanity – when I reference RSVP going forward I’ll be referring to RSVP that’s used to setup MPLS LSPs.
So now let’s talk about some differences between LDP and RSVP. The first thing that everyone points out is that LDP is tightly bound to the underlying IGP. While this is an accurate statement, it doesn’t mean that RSVP Continue reading
Event-Driven Automation: The TL;DR No One Told You About
Event-Driven automation is an umbrella term much like "coffee" (also see here, it turns out I’ve used coffee anecdotes way too much). How many times do you go to a popular chain and just blurt out "coffee". At 5am, it might be the nonsensical mysterious noise automagically leaving one’s mouth but once we decide it’s bean time, we get to the specifics.
There are multiple tools that give you different capabilities. Some are easier to get started with than others and some are feature rich and return high yields of capability against invested time.
Friendly dictator advice; try not to get wrapped up in the message bus used or data encapsulation methodologies. Nerdy fun, but fairly pointless when it comes to convincing anyone or organisation to make a fundamental shift.
Event-Driven is about receiving a WebHook and annoying people on Slack
This is a terrible measure and one we needed to have dropped yesterday. In more programming languages than I can remember, I’ve written the infamous "Hello World" and played with such variables, struct instances and objects as the infamous "foo" and the much revered "bar". Using an automation platform to receive an HTTP post and updating a support Continue reading
NetScout Remains Optimistic Despite Continued Revenue Decline
NetScout expects to start to see the benefits of 5G as well as its restructuring and headcount reduction plans over the coming quarters.
Verizon Slashes 5G Latency With MEC Equipment, Software
The test took place at Verizon’s 5G test bed in Houston. Company engineers installed the equipment and software at a network facility closer to the network edge.
Dell Four-Way Endpoint Security Play Targets the Mid-Market
There are two strategic elements to the platform: One is that Dell considers mid-market security to be an underserved market. The other is that endpoints are particularly vulnerable.