Cloudflare During the Coronavirus Emergency
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From: Matthew Prince
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:20 PM
Subject: Cloudflare During the Coronavirus Emergency
We know that organizations and individuals around the world depend on Cloudflare and our network. I wanted to send you a personal note to let you know how Cloudflare is dealing with the Coronavirus emergency.
First, the health and safety of our employees and customers is our top priority. We have implemented a number of sensible policies to this end, including encouraging many employees to work from home. This, however, hasn't slowed our operations. Our network operations center (NOC), security operations center (SOC), and customer support teams will remain fully operational and can do their jobs entirely remote as needed.
Second, we are tracking Internet usage patterns globally. As more people work from home, peak traffic in impacted regions has increased, on average, approximately 10%. In Italy, which has imposed a nationwide quarantine, peak Internet traffic is up 30%. Traffic patterns have also shifted so peak traffic is occurring earlier in the day in impacted regions. None of these traffic changes raise any concern for us. Cloudflare's network is well provisioned Continue reading
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AT&T Trumpets ‘Significant’ 5G Network Lead
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Ubuntu 18.04
Find the latest Host sFlow version on the Host sFlow download page.
wget https://github.com/sflow/host-sflow/releases/download/v2.0.25-3/hsflowd-ubuntu18_2.0.25-3_amd64.debThe above commands download and install the software.
sudo dpkg -i hsflowd-ubuntu18_2.0.25-3_amd64.deb
sudo systemctl enable hsflowd
sflow {
collector { ip=10.0.0.30 }
pcap { speed=1G-1T }
tcp { }
systemd { }
}Edit the /etc/hsflowd.conf file. The above example sends sFlow to a collector at 10.0.0.30, enables packet sampling on all network adapters, adds TCP performance information, and exports metrics for Linux services. See Configuring Host sFlow for Linux for the complete set of configuration options.sudo systemctl restart hsflowdRestart the Host sFlow daemon to start streaming telemetry to Continue reading
Intra-Subnet Communication: AWS VPC versus LISP Based Campus Fabric
Forewords
This article introduces the principles of the Amazon Web Service Virtual Private Cloud (AWS VPC) Control-Plane operation and Data-Plane encapsulation. Also, this document explains how the same kind of forwarding model can be achieved using standard protocols. Amazon has not published details of its VPC networking solution, and this document relies on publically available information and the author’s studies. The motivation for writing this document was that I wanted to point out that no matter how simple and easy to manage Cloud Networking looks and feels like, those still are as complex as any other large scale networks.
Example Environment
Figure 1-1 illustrates an example AWS VPC environment running on an imaginary application on two Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) Instances, EC2-A and EC2-B. The instance EC2-A will be launched in physical server Host-A while the instance EC2-B will later be launched in physical server Host-B. The VPC vpc-1a2b3c4d is created in Stockholm (eu-north-1) Region in Availability Zone (AZ) eu-north-1c. The subnet 172.16.31.0/20 can be used in AZ eu-north-1c. The subnet for instances is 172.31.10.0/24. Elastic Network Interface-1 (ENI1) with IP address 172.31.10.10 will be attached to the instance EC2-A and ENI2 with IP address 172.31.10.20 will be attached to the instance EC2-B. For simplicity, the same Security Group (SG) “sg-nwktimes”, allowing all data traffic between EC2-A and EC2-B) is attached to both instances.
Inside both physical servers, there is a software router, Router-1 in Host-A and Router-2 in Host-B. Servers use offload NICs for connection to AZ Underlay Network and data traffic from instances is sent out of the server straight to offload NIC bypassing the hypervisor. The AZ Backbone includes three routers, Router-3, Router-4, and Router-5. Also, there is a Mapping Service that represents the centralized Control Plane. It holds an Instance-to-Location Mapping Database that has information about every EC2 Instances running on a given VPC. Routers, servers and Mapping Service use IPv6 addressing.
Figure 1-1: Overall example topology and IP addressing scheme.
Top Beauty Networking Events in 2020
If you are in the beauty industry, then you are going to want to attend as many beauty networking events in 2020 as possible in order to make connections with other people in the field. Any beauty event, whether a trade show, a conference, or a demonstration can be used as a beauty networking event, since these events give you access to professionals in the field.
There are a number of different beauty networking events set for this year 2020, and each event can be a great way for you to meet and network with new people in the industry, learn about new makeup and skin care trends, and even learn about new makeup techniques – all of which can be helpful to your business.
Look for Beauty Networking Events Online
If you are looking for some beauty networking events near you, check online to find out where various beauty events will be held throughout the year. There are several events being held, and some offer better networking opportunities than others. You’ll need to decide for yourself which event will provide you with the networking opportunities you are looking for based on what type of beauty business you are Continue reading
Splunk Makes Security Hygiene Sexy Again
“Vulnerability management, configuration management, patch management — those things should...
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Protect your team with Cloudflare Gateway
On January 7th, we announced Cloudflare for Teams, a new way to protect organizations and their employees globally, without sacrificing performance. Cloudflare for Teams centers around two core products - Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway. Cloudflare Access is already available and used by thousands of teams around the world to secure internal applications. Cloudflare Gateway solves the other end of the problem by protecting those teams from security threats without sacrificing performance.
Today, we’re excited to announce new secure DNS filtering capabilities in Cloudflare Gateway. Cloudflare Gateway protects teams from threats like malware, phishing, ransomware, crypto-mining and other security threats. You can start using Cloudflare Gateway at dash.teams.cloudflare.com. Getting started takes less than five minutes.
Why Cloudflare Gateway?
We built Cloudflare Gateway to address key challenges our customers experience with managing and securing global networks. The root cause of these challenges is architecture and inability to scale. Legacy network security models solved problems in the 1990s, but teams have continued to attempt to force the Internet of the 2020s through them.
Historically, branch offices sent all of their Internet-bound traffic to one centralized data center at or near corporate headquarters. Administrators configured that to make sure all Continue reading
Worth Reading: 10 Optimizations on Linear Search
Stumbled upon an article by Tom Limoncelli. He starts with a programming question (skip that) but then goes into an interesting discussion of what’s really important.
Being focused primarily on networking this is the bit I liked most (another case of Latency Matters):
I once observed a situation where a developer was complaining that an operation was very slow. His solution was to demand a faster machine. The sysadmin who investigated the issue found that the code was downloading millions of data points from a database on another continent. The network between the two hosts was very slow. A faster computer would not improve performance.
The solution, however, was not to build a faster network, either. Instead, we moved the calculation to be closer to the data.
Lesson learned: always figure out the real problem and what the most effective way of solving it as opposed to pushing the problem down the stack or into the cloud.
Worth Reading: 10 Optimizations on Linear Search
Stumbled upon an article by Tom Limoncelli. He starts with a programming question (skip that) but then goes into an interesting discussion of what’s really important.
Being focused primarily on networking this is the bit I liked most (another case of Latency Matters):
I once observed a situation where a developer was complaining that an operation was very slow. His solution was to demand a faster machine. The sysadmin who investigated the issue found that the code was downloading millions of data points from a database on another continent. The network between the two hosts was very slow. A faster computer would not improve performance.
The solution, however, was not to build a faster network, either. Instead, we moved the calculation to be closer to the data.
Lesson learned: always figure out the real problem and what the most effective way of solving it as opposed to pushing the problem down the stack or into the cloud.
AWS Bottlerocket Launches Into Container OS Space
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DATA TYPES : YAML XML JSON
Different Data types i.e YAML,XML,JSON has been already discussed in below blogs :
JSON : https://knowpackets.com/2020/03/11/json/
XML: https://knowpackets.com/2020/02/28/xml/
YAML: https://knowpackets.com/2020/02/26/yaml/
Here you will find the comparison between all the three mentioned data types in one page:
Orange, Riverbed, Nuage Chat SD-WAN Pitfalls, Opportunities
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Microsoft Leads Massive Necurs Botnet Takedown
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Money Moves: February 2020
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Coronavirus Wreaks Havoc on Tech Industry
"This is one of those moments when companies must strive more than ever to act with values and...
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Hitachi Vantara Skims Containership’s Kubernetes Assets
Containership sank last fall after failing to monetize its Kubernetes distribution.
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