Starting a new series: AWS ABC’s
I’d be lying if I said that since starting my new job at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I wasn’t looking forward to writing about all the new things I was going to learn. Obviously there’s the technology and services that make up the platform itself. But there’s also the architectural best practices, the design patterns, and answers to questions like “how does moving to the cloud improve my performance/security/reliability?”
Admittedly, I have a lot to learn. With my background being mostly in the network space for my entire career, stepping out of that and into a software and cloudy world means I’m ramping up on a lot of new skills and knowledge.
I believe I’m not the only one on this journey of learning and that, like me, there a lot of folks who are having to learn the basics of the cloud and specifically, AWS.
This has inspired me to start a new, open-ended series of blog posts that I’ve dubbed AWS ABC’s, targeted at people who have a lot of experiencing designing, operating, and architecting on-premesis systems but are now trying to up-skill by learning how to do the same in the cloud. These posts will Continue reading
Build and Deploy Functions to Cloudflare’s 152+ Data Centers with Serverless
We’re very excited to announce that Cloudflare Workers are now integrated into the Serverless framework as a serverless cloud provider! Serverless’ open source framework has become a must-have for many developers, and we want to make it as simple as possible to harness the power of Cloudflare’s distributed computing network.
Workers have become essential to the way people build applications on the web. The expressiveness of modern JavaScript combined with sub-30 second deploys to Cloudflare’s network of 152+ datacenters means that you can truly build your application into our global compute network. Up until this point, deploying Workers required doing all of your editing through our browser-based IDE or developing one’s own custom tooling on top of our API. But many developers have their own environments and are already familiar with the Serverless framework, so it seemed natural that we build first-class support for Workers into Serverless!
You can now define the entire structure and routing behavior of your Workers scripts in code and deploy them with ease using serverless deploy from your own development environment. Store configuration files in version control alongside your application code. And feel more confident testing your application with serverless invoke, a new way Continue reading
BFD – Sub-second Failure Detection
If there’s no BFD If you have two routers directly connected, like here: In this case, it is normal that one of them will remove the routes learned from the other if the other one goes down completely. It is because the link will go to down state and the routing protocol adjacency will disappear. If two routers are connected through an L2 device (switch) like down here: In this case, when one of them goes down, it will not take down the interface of the L3 neighbour (other router) because the switch will still work fine and it will
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Cisco Offers Flexible Consumption of ASR 9K Router Software
The company unveiled upgrades to its ASR 9000 routers via a new line card with fourth-generation silicon.
Why Networks Are Evolving Toward Leaf-Spine Architectures
A brief overview of the benefits of leaf-spine designs, where they're commonly deployed today, and why you might choose to pursue one.
A quote from an Ex-Googler
I really like this paragraph, because almost everyone wants to imitate google. Why? well, the answer to that questions seems to be what everyone is missing!
Google’s solutions were built for scale that basically doesn’t exist outside of a maybe a handful of companies with a trillion dollar valuation. It’s foolish to assume that their solutions are better. They’re just more scalable. But they are actually very feature-poor. There’s a tradeoff there. We should not be imitating what Google did without thinking about why they did it. Sometimes the “whys” will apply to us, sometimes they won’t
The quote comes from Cloud Field Day 4, from Ben Sigelman of LightStep.
Thanks to Tom over at networkingnerd.net for the entire post!
/Kim
Network Automation with Ansible for Undergraduate Students
Last year’s experiment generated so much interest that I decided to repeat it this year: if you’re an undergraduate or Master's student and manage to persuade us that you’re motivated enough to automate the **** out of everything, you’ll get a free seat in Ansible for Networking Engineers online course.
Interested? Check out the details, and apply before October 1st.
Too old? Please spread the word ;)
AWS ABCs — Logging Into a New EC2 Instance
Ok, you've just launched an Amazon EC2 instance (ie, a virtual machine) and you're ready to login and get to work. Just once teeeensy problem though… you have no idea how to actually connect to the instance!
This post will walk through how to log into brand new Linux/BSD and Windows instances (the steps are slightly different for different OS families).
Starting a new series: AWS ABCs
I'd be lying if I said that since starting my new job at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I wasn't looking forward to writing about all the new things I was going to learn. Obviously there's the technology and services that make up the platform itself. But there's also the architectural best practices, the design patterns, and answers to questions like “how does moving to the cloud improve my performance/security/reliability?” Admittedly, I have a lot to learn.Nutanix Wins $20-Plus Million Deal With Defense Agency
The deal, which closed in Q4 fiscal 2018, is the largest deal in the company’s history.
Cisco’s New UCS Server Supports Google’s Kubeflow, Other ML Tools
Deep learning requires software tools to make sense of the data. To that end Cisco is working with software providers and other technology companies to validate machine learning tools on top of the new server.
Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson Score AT&T 5G Contracts
For Samsung, winning AT&T’s business is another feather in its cap. The vendor has been gaining more business with U.S. operators.
AT&T Plots Its Commercial Deployment of Project AirGig
The company says it's in discussions with unnamed technology suppliers for equipment to deliver internet over power lines.
AT&T Changes Its Tune on 5G Fixed Wireless
The operator will use Samsung and CommScope gear in the 3.5 GHz CBRS spectrum band to deliver fixed wireless. It will start with LTE and migrate to 5G.
Think Like an Engineer, not a Cheerleader
When you see a chart like this—
—you probably think if I were staking my career on technologies, I would want to jump from the older technology to the new just at the point where that adoption curve starts to really drive upward.
Going back many years, I recognize this s-curve. It was used for FDDI, ATM, Banyan Vines, Novell Netware, and just about every new technology that has ever entered the market.
TL;DR
- There are technology jump points where an entire market will move from one technology to another
- From a career perspective, it is sometimes wise to jump to a new technology when at the early stages of such a jump
- However, there are risks invovled, such as hidden costs that prevent the jump from occurring
- Hence, you need to be cautious and thoughtful when considering jumping to a new technology
The problem with this curve, Continue reading