Summary of Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Overview
I’ve decided to start a reading project on genocides and violent totalitarian dictators. Most education about these topics in the US is focused around Nazi Germany, or occasionally the Soviet Union under Stalin. While I’d like to come back to those events if I can endure the topic that long, I’m starting with non-Western events.
First up is Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, partly because I grew up in the 1980s around a lot of first or second-generation Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants, but never knew much about the politics behind their flight from Southeast Asia. It’s a particularly strange case of different cultural, political, and historic influences converging in a disastrous way. The term “genocide” has been controversial with reference to the Khmer Rouge regime: while they systematically murdered or starved somewhere between 1.7 and 2.3 million people, for the most part the killings didn’t target a specific racial, ethnic, or religious group. While there were certainly elements of this – as I’ll discuss – Pol Pot’s regime was more about brutal slavery and vicious punishment of any deviance, regardless of the person.
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Example API calls using CURL
Example on making REST API calls to phpipam API server.How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS
At midnight UTC on New Year’s Day, deep inside Cloudflare’s custom RRDNS software, a number went negative when it should always have been, at worst, zero. A little later this negative value caused RRDNS to panic. This panic was caught using the recover feature of the Go language. The net effect was that some DNS resolutions to some Cloudflare managed web properties failed.
The problem only affected customers who use CNAME DNS records with Cloudflare, and only affected a small number of machines across Cloudflare's 102 PoPs. At peak approximately 0.2% of DNS queries to Cloudflare were affected and less than 1% of all HTTP requests to Cloudflare encountered an error.
This problem was quickly identified. The most affected machines were patched in 90 minutes and the fix was rolled out worldwide by 0645 UTC. We are sorry that our customers were affected, but we thought it was worth writing up the root cause for others to understand.
A little bit about Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare customers use our DNS service to serve the authoritative answers for DNS queries for their domains. They need to tell us the IP address of their origin web servers so we can contact the Continue reading
Orhan Ergun Youtube Channel
Orhan Ergun Youtube Channel I have been sharing technology based videos on my youtube channel for some time. I will hopefuly share more often public videos out there ! I just don’t want to share technical videos, but my training updates, bootcamp announcements, success stories and the things which make me happy or mad ! […]
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Is Cisco CCDE Exam Vendor Neutral ?
Is Cisco CCDE Exam really vendor neutral?.Recently one of my CCDE Bootcamp students asked me this question. He heard that DMVPN might come in the exam. In the beginning of my each CCDE class, I introduce the topics which will most likely asked in the CCDE Practical exam. Cisco claims that CCDE Practical exam is […]
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LSA issue @ January 1, 2017 at 02:13PM
Hey there, engineers! Its January 1st 2017 and we are happy to welcome you and wish you all the best.But is it 2017 indeed? How would one tell if his clock is good, if its in sync with the world clock? Yeah, you got it, in the era of the leap second and New YearEP10: From Dubai to Silicon Valley, interview with LinkedIn’s lead architect Shawn Zandi
Shawn Zandi is a principal network architect with LinkedIn, where he builds large scale data center, backbone and networks. Over the past two decades, Shawn has worked as network and security architect for consulting firms from Dubai to Silicon Valley. Shawn holds many publications, patents and certifications including 3x CCIE in routing and switching, Security and Service provider as well as CCDE, while through the years of practice has become a vendor-neutral consultant. He currently lives in San Francisco, in Sunny California. In addition to his commitment to LinkedIn, Shawn is a technical advisor to networking startups in the Bay Area.
Quote: RFC1925 – The Twelve Networking Truths Rule (11)
Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
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Tech Lesson of the Day: Applying Machine Learning and Big Data to Networking
My Personal Look Back on 2016
I haven't ever written a “year in review” type of post before. Sure, I do a post to summarize how the blog has done over the year but I've never done a personal look back. Last night-New Years Eve-I was thinking about everything that I was involved in during 2016 and I realized “I should write this down! I was involved in or a participant of some amazing things last year!”
So here we go. In an effort to show a more personal side and not just my geeky side, here is my personal 2016 year in review.
2016 End of Year Blog Statistics
Happy New Year! I just realized the other day that this blog turned 5 years old in 2016. It’s been a lot of fun and has paid me back for my time in terms of building my brand and being a means to explore and learn new topics. I have plans to put more focus on my writing in 2017 and reduce the friction between starting with a blank page and hitting that “Publish” button.
Anyways! Here’s a look back at 2016 on packetmischief.ca.
Hmm. Basically flat growth in terms of views and visitors. I feel like this is to be expected based on how much writing and promotion I did throughout the year. I can improve these numbers for 2017.
Just like last year, the new vs returning visitor numbers are basically unchanged.
The 5 most popular posts in 2016 are:
Quick links:
- 4 Types of Port Channels and When They’re Used
- Resetting Admin Password on a Cisco ISE Appliance
- What the Fex is a FEX Anyways
- Five Functional Facts about FabricPath
- Airplay, VLANs, and an Open Source Solution
And the top 5 posts in 2016 that Continue reading
Hybrid cloud recent solutions from Microsoft and VMWare – 2 different ends of the hybrid cloud spectrum
Public clouds have grown tremendously over the last few years and there are very few companies who do not use public cloud at this point. Even traditional enterprises with in-house data centers have some presence in the public cloud. I was looking at Amazon’s re:Invent conference details and I was amazed by the number of … Continue reading Hybrid cloud recent solutions from Microsoft and VMWare – 2 different ends of the hybrid cloud spectrum
2016 End of Year Blog Statistics
Happy New Year! I just realized the other day that this blog turned 5 years old in 2016. It's been a lot of fun and has paid me back for my time in terms of building my brand and being a means to explore and learn new topics. I have plans to put more focus on my writing in 2017 and reduce the friction between starting with a blank page and hitting that “Publish” button.
Anyways! Here's a look back at 2016 on packetmischief.ca.
2016 Recap and 2017 Goals
Yet another recap post to follow up on last year’s. 2015 was a big transition year for me, and last year I wanted to make sure I kept the momentum going.
I make this post yearly to publicly track my own professional development goals. I find this helps me stay accountable to these goals, and it also allows others to give me a kick in the butt if I’m falling behind.
2015 Goal Recap
First, let me recap some of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year, and see how well I did.
Network Automation Book - At this time last year, I announced that I was working on a network automation book with Scott Lowe and Jason Edelman. This has certainly taken a bit more time than any of us would have liked, but we’re very near the end. The three of us have had a very busy year, and there are very few things to do for this release. However, we have pushed several additional chapters to O’Reilly, so you can still read these via Safari.
Open Source - Given that I now work for a company centered around an open Continue reading
2016 Recap and 2017 Goals
Yet another recap post to follow up on last year’s. 2015 was a big transition year for me, and last year I wanted to make sure I kept the momentum going.
I make this post yearly to publicly track my own professional development goals. I find this helps me stay accountable to these goals, and it also allows others to give me a kick in the butt if I’m falling behind.
2015 Goal Recap
First, let me recap some of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year, and see how well I did.
Network Automation Book - At this time last year, I announced that I was working on a network automation book with Scott Lowe and Jason Edelman. This has certainly taken a bit more time than any of us would have liked, but we’re very near the end. The three of us have had a very busy year, and there are very few things to do for this release. However, we have pushed several additional chapters to O’Reilly, so you can still read these via Safari.
Open Source - Given that I now work for a company centered around an open Continue reading
2016 Recap and 2017 Goals
Yet another recap post to follow up on last year’s. 2015 was a big transition year for me, and last year I wanted to make sure I kept the momentum going. I make this post yearly to publicly track my own professional development goals. I find this helps me stay accountable to these goals, and it also allows others to give me a kick in the butt if I’m falling behind.2016 Recap and 2017 Goals
Yet another recap post to follow up on last year’s. 2015 was a big transition year for me, and last year I wanted to make sure I kept the momentum going. I make this post yearly to publicly track my own professional development goals. I find this helps me stay accountable to these goals, and it also allows others to give me a kick in the butt if I’m falling behind.Killing ‘Zombies’ For Data Center Efficiency
The Uptime Institute has estimated the gains from eliminating 'zombie' servers versus doing nothing.
Panama expands Cloudflare network to 50 countries
A man, a plan, a canal, a data center. Over 5 million Internet properties are now faster across Panama, as Cloudflare turned up its newest data center in Panama City. This is our 102nd data center globally, and brings us to a special milestone as our network now spans 50 countries. While perhaps not quite as big an announcement as the $5B Panama Canal expansion, the websites of many important newspapers, TV stations, banks and airlines can be accessed directly from Panama.
‘A man a plan a canal’ y un data center! A Partir de hoy más de 5 millones de sitios en internet serán mas rápidos desde Panamá, ya que hemos introducido nuestro más reciente centro de datos en Ciudad de Panamá. Es nuestro centro de datos número 102 a nivel mundial. Es una hito especial ya que la red global de Cloudflare alcanza 50 países a nivel mundial. Tal vez no es un anuncio tan grande como la inauguración de la expansión del canal, pero a partir de hoy muchos de los sitios importantes de diarios, Televisoras, bancos y aerolíneas serán servidos directamente desde Panamá.
Bridge of the Americas
Puente de las Américas
Internet in Panama
El Internet Continue reading
How to Make the Most of SDN
What you need to know when considering service assurance for your carrier SDN projects.