Project Escalation Is Good! How To Identify Stakeholders And Escalate Well
When tackling technical projects, every organization needs a system to make decisions, resolve conflicts, and chart alternative paths when plans go awry. Effective escalation is key, but the prospect of escalation can make engineers anxious. We need to reframe our view of escalation as a tool to help move a project forward.
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A Deep Dive into the Recent Microsoft Cloud Services Outage
Configuration changes and DNS issues have been the source of multiple major outages over the last two years. And everyone knows there will be more to come.Tanzu Service Mesh Security Enhancements using Confidential Computing
Performance and Security Optimizations on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with Intel SGX – Part 3
Contributors
Andrew Babakian — VMware
Saidulu Aldas, Ramesh Masavarapu, Sakari Poussa, Tarun Viswanathan — Intel
Introduction
Intel and VMware have been working together to optimize and accelerate the microservices middleware and infrastructure with software and hardware to ensure developers have the best-in-class performance and low latency experience for building distributed workloads. The focus is on improving the performance of crypto accelerations and making workloads more secure.
The Service Mesh architecture pattern solves many problems, which are well-known and extensively documented, and will not be central to this discussion. However, the focal point of this blog series will include the architectural challenges of Service Mesh in the following top focus areas:
- Performance
- Security
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Tanzu Service Mesh uses eBPF to achieve network acceleration. In Part 2, we showcased how Intel and VMware collaborated to accelerate Tanzu Service Mesh crypto use cases and improve the performance of asymmetric crypto operations.
In this Part 3 blog series, we will discuss one security challenge (concerning the service mesh private key protection mechanism) and our solution.
In the current Continue reading
Real-Life Not-Exactly-Networking AI Use Case
I get several emails every week1 from people I never heard of telling me what a wonderful job they could do writing guest blog posts on a range of topics of interest to my audience.
I’m positive you must be pretty intelligent to be a successful scammer, so I’m sure the good ones are using ChatGPT to generate the “unique” content they’re promising. I felt it was high time to return the favor.
Real-Life Not-Exactly-Networking AI Use Case
I get several emails every week1 from people I never heard of telling me what a wonderful job they could do writing guest blog posts on a range of topics of interest to my audience.
I’m positive you must be pretty intelligent to be a successful scammer, so I’m sure the good ones are using ChatGPT to generate the “unique” content they’re promising. I felt it was high time to return the favor.
Learning to use Python classes
This tutorial demonstrates object-oriented programming and Python classes.
I think that most people learn best when working on a practical project, so I will show readers how to build a simple program that they can share with their friends and family. While building the program, I demonstrate the types of problems solved by using Python classes and I use Python classes to build and manage multiple game elements.
NOTE: I realize this is off-topic for my blog. I used the Pyxel game framework as an tool to introduce Python programming to my child. After using Pyxel to build a game, I thought that it provided a good example of using Python classes in an easy-to-understand way.
I assume the reader has already learned the basics of Python programming.
Python Classes
A Python class is a type of Python object used in object-oriented programming. Programmers create new objects by instantiating, or calling, classes. They may then use or modify those instances’ attributes in their programs.
Each instance of a class is a unique object that may contain variables, called data attributes, and functions, called methods.
Each class also contains an initialization function, called a constructor, that runs when a new Continue reading
Fortinet Announces A New System on Chip (SoC) For Its Firewall Appliances
Fortinet has announced new chip hardware, the SP5, to power FortiGate firewall appliances for entry-level and medium-size customers that need firewalls at campus, branch, and edge locations. Fortinet is positioning this chip as a high-performance, energy-efficient option compared to security devices using off-the-shelf CPUs. Fortinet has long developed its own ASICs and has three hardware […]
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Day Two Cloud 181: Implementing Patterns And Practices For Infrastructure as Code
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and software practices you might want to put in place for the parts of your team who know what they're doing with infrastructure but may not be familiar with developer practices that can help make code more reliable and operational processes more repeatable. Our guest is author Rosemary Wang.
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Day Two Cloud 181: Implementing Patterns And Practices For Infrastructure as Code
On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and software practices you might want to put in place for the parts of your team who know what they're doing with infrastructure but may not be familiar with developer practices that can help make code more reliable and operational processes more repeatable. Our guest is author Rosemary Wang.Welcome to Wildebeest: the Fediverse on Cloudflare
The Fediverse has been a hot topic of discussion lately, with thousands, if not millions, of new users creating accounts on platforms like Mastodon to either move entirely to "the other side" or experiment and learn about this new social network.
Today we're introducing Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud. If you want to run your own spot in the Fediverse you can now do it entirely on Cloudflare.
The Fediverse, built on Cloudflare
Today you're left with two options if you want to join the Mastodon federated network: either you join one of the existing servers (servers are also called communities, and each one has its own infrastructure and rules), or you can run your self-hosted server.
There are a few reasons why you'd want to run your own server:
- You want to create a new community and attract other users over a common theme and usage rules.
- You don't want to have to trust third-party servers or abide by their policies and want your server, under your domain, for your personal account.
- You want complete control over your data, personal information, and content and visibility over what Continue reading
Lessons Learned From the Top Cloud Outages of 2022
IT pros need to choose their cloud providers carefully but also ensure network resiliency and visibility are in place to recover from the problem as quickly as possible.Response: Nothing Works (in Enterprise IT)
Dmitry Perets left a thoughtful comment on my Nothing Works blog post describing why enterprise IT might be even worse than consumer world.
I think another reason for the “Nothing Works” world is that the only true Management Plane separation that exists in our industry is that of the real “human” management. In the medium/large enterprises they (and their interests, KPIs and so on) are very much separated from the technical workforce. And increasingly so, because today the technical workforce might not even be the employees of the same enterprise. They are likely to come from some IT consultancy outsource – degree of separation which makes a true SDN evangelist envious.
Response: Nothing Works (in Enterprise IT)
Dmitry Perets left a thoughtful comment on my Nothing Works blog post describing why enterprise IT might be even worse than consumer world.
I think another reason for the “Nothing Works” world is that the only true Management Plane separation that exists in our industry is that of the real “human” management. In the medium/large enterprises they (and their interests, KPIs and so on) are very much separated from the technical workforce. And increasingly so, because today the technical workforce might not even be the employees of the same enterprise. They are likely to come from some IT consultancy outsource – degree of separation which makes a true SDN evangelist envious.