Is it really the best just because its the most common?
I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard someone ask these two questions—
- What are other people doing?
- What is the best common practice?
While these questions have always bothered me, I could never really put my finger on why. I ran across a journal article recently that helped me understand a bit better. The root of the problem is this—what does best common mean, and how can following the best common produce a set of actions you can be confident will solve your problem?
Bellman and Oorschot say best common practice can mean this is widely implemented. The thinking seems to run something like this: the crowd’s collective wisdom will probably be better than my thinking… more sets of eyes will make for wiser or better decisions. Anyone who has studied the madness of crowds will immediately recognize the folly of this kind of state. Just because a lot of people agree it’s a good idea to jump off a cliff does not mean it is, in fact, a good idea to jump off a cliff.
Perhaps it means something closer to this is no worse than our competitors. If that’s the meaning, though, it’s a pretty cynical Continue reading
Extrovert Marketing to Introverts. Tech Conferences Don’t cater the Audience.
Why you feedback is right and why saying conferences will come back is unlikely.
Tech Bytes: Nokia’s Fabric Services System Simplifies Data Center Operations (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Byte explores a digital sandbox for fabric emulation. This unique feature is part of Nokia's Fabric Services System for automating and operating a data center fabric. Our Nokia guest is Phani Koganti, Senior Director of Product Management. This is a sponsored episode.
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Tech Bytes: Nokia’s Fabric Services System Simplifies Data Center Operations (Sponsored)
Today's Tech Byte explores a digital sandbox for fabric emulation. This unique feature is part of Nokia's Fabric Services System for automating and operating a data center fabric. Our Nokia guest is Phani Koganti, Senior Director of Product Management. This is a sponsored episode.The Week in Internet News: Rural Areas Need Broadband to Attract Workers
Recruiting issue: Companies in some areas of the rural U.S. are trying to hire workers, but the lack of quality broadband service is hurting their efforts, the New York Times reports. The story looks at a manufacturer of asphalt paving equipment in rural Iowa that paid to have fiber laid to its factory, but there’s […]
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The State of Data Center Networking 2021: Long Live Private Cloud
Today Pluribus announced the release of the State of the Data Center Networking 2021 Annual Report. This groundbreaking original research, conducted with Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), not only confirms many of the trends we have discussed recently, it reveals just how strong they are.
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HS007: Distributed Work and Return To Office Strategies
Returning to the office is a key issue as companies learn that being "in person" is the new remote working
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HS007: Distributed Work and Return To Office Strategies
Returning to the office is a key issue as companies learn that being "in person" is the new remote working
Transient prompt with Zsh
Powerlevel10k is a prompt for Zsh. It contains some powerful features, is astoundingly fast, and easy to customize. I am quite amazed at the skills of its main author. Be sure to also have a look at Zsh for Humans, a complete Zsh configuration including this theme.
One of the nice features of Powerlevel10k is transient prompts: past prompts are reduced to a more minimal configuration to save space by removing unneeded information.
When it comes to configuring my shell, I still prefer writing and understanding each line going into it. Therefore, I am still building my Zsh configuration from scratch. Here is how I have integrated the above transient feature into my prompt.
The first step is to configure the appearance of the prompt in its
compact form. Let’s assume we have a variable, $_vbe_prompt_compact
set to 1 when we want a compact prompt. We use the
following function to define the prompt Continue reading
Feedback: Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive
Here’s what one of the engineers watching Stuart Charlton’s Kubernetes webinar wrote about it:
“Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive” is a must see webinar. Once done take a break and then watch it again, let it sink in and then sign-up for a free account with Azure or GCP and practice all that was learned during the webinar.
At the end of this exercise … one will begin to understand why the networking domain seems to be lagging behind … This webinar will help one pick up the pace!
Feedback: Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive
Here’s what one of the engineers watching Stuart Charlton’s Kubernetes webinar wrote about it:
“Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive” is a must see webinar. Once done take a break and then watch it again, let it sink in and then sign-up for a free account with Azure or GCP and practice all that was learned during the webinar.
At the end of this exercise … one will begin to understand why the networking domain seems to be lagging behind … This webinar will help one pick up the pace!
5 Tips for Building a Cloud Security Architecture
Building a cloud security architecture is no easy task. You need to address your organization's security policies, relevant compliance standards, and security best practices while contending with the high complexity and dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure.DNS OARC 35
OARC-35 was held at the start of May. Here's some thoughts on a few presentations at that meeting that caught my attention.How to Make Money Selling Sneakers
If there is one thing that has managed to up the game in selling and buying it’s the sneaker bots. Sneaker bots are software that let you buy designer sneakers as soon as they are released in the market and sneakers rare and hard to find. The sneaker selling business is booming, mainly because the young generation would instead buy sneakers off a reliable market.
The question arises, how can you make money selling sneakers? If brands are selling their sneakers at fill prices, how can you, an independent business, make money selling them? The answer to this simple query is sneaker bots. Sneaker bots help provide the customer with a place where they can go online and get rare and collectable sneakers at an affordable and profitable rate to you as a business owner.
How to Make Money Selling Sneakers
To understand how you can make money selling sneakers, it is necessary to see the different sneaker bots that may help you get there. Here are a few of the most famous bots that can work in your favour if you are a new business looking to venture into the word of selling new and rare sneakers. Continue reading
Worth Watching: Rethinking BGP in the Data Center
Ever since draft-lapukhov was first published almost a decade ago, we all knew BGP was the only routing protocol suitable for data center networking… or at least Thought Leaders and vendor marketers seem to be of that persuasion.
Worth Watching: Rethinking BGP in the Data Center
Ever since draft-lapukhov was first published almost a decade ago, we all knew BGP was the only routing protocol suitable for data center networking… or at least Thought Leaders and vendor marketers seem to be of that persuasion.
Worth Exploring: Working with Linux VRFs
I remember having an interesting discussion about Linux VRFs (as opposed to namespaces) with Dinesh Dutt years ago, but it looks like I never turned it into a blog post.
Now I won’t have to ? – Jon Langemak published an excellent Working with Linux VRFs deep dive.
Worth Exploring: Working with Linux VRFs
I remember having an interesting discussion about Linux VRFs (as opposed to namespaces) with Dinesh Dutt years ago, but it looks like I never turned it into a blog post.
Now I won’t have to 😉 – Jon Langemak published an excellent Working with Linux VRFs deep dive.
When Hardware Drives Software Upgrades
What’s your favorite version of Microsoft Windows? Is it Windows 10? Maybe it’s Windows XP? Windows 95? Odds are good that you have one version you appreciated more than most. Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10 tend to rank high on the list. Windows ME and Windows 8 seem to rank pretty low. Yet, for all their impressive love and all the users clinging to them we don’t really use anything other than Windows 10 any more.
You might be tempted to say that the OS isn’t supported any longer so there’s no reason to run it. Yet we still drive vehicles that are no longer under warranty. We still buy classic cars that are older than we are and put parts in them to keep them running. Why is software different? What drives us to keep needing to upgrade our programs?
You might be shocked to learn that the most popular reason to upgrade software is, in fact, driven by hardware. It’s not the memory requirements or the fancy new user interface that drives people to move to the new platform. More often than not it’s because a new piece of hardware has requirements that only work on Continue reading