What Cyber Lessons Can the Military Teach the Private Sector?
Besides trying to avoid attack, the military focuses on resilience – the ability to limit the damage from attacks and to recover quickly afterward.A letter from Cloudflare’s founders (2020)
To our stakeholders:
Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010 — 10 years ago today. Stopping to look back over the last 10 years is challenging in some ways because so much of who we are has changed radically. A decade ago when we launched we had a few thousand websites using us, our tiny office was above a nail salon in Palo Alto, our team could be counted on less than two hands, and our data center locations on one hand.
As the company grew, it would have been easy to stick with accelerating and protecting developers and small business websites and not see the broader picture. But, as this year has shown with crystal clarity, we all depend on the Internet for many aspects of our lives: for access to public information and services, to getting work done, for staying in touch with friends and loved ones, and, increasingly, for educating our children, ordering groceries, learning the latest dance moves, and so many other things. The Internet underpins much of what we do every day, and Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet seems more Continue reading
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
Each year we celebrate our launch on September 27, 2010 with a week of product announcements. We call this Birthday Week, but rather than receiving gifts, we give them away. This year is no different, except that it is… Cloudflare is 10 years old.
Before looking forward to the coming week, let’s take a look back at announcements from previous Birthday Weeks.
A year into Cloudflare’s life (in 2011) we launched automatic support for IPv6. This was the first of a long line of announcements that support our goal of making available to everyone the latest technologies. If you’ve been following Cloudflare’s growth you’ll know those include SPDY/HTTP/2, TLS 1.3, QUIC/HTTP/3, DoH and DoT, WebP, … At two years old we celebrated with a timeline of our first two years and the fact that we’d reached 500,000 domains using the service. A year later that number had tripled.
In 2014 we released Universal SSL and gave all our customers SSL certificates. In one go we massively increased the size of the encrypted web and made it free and simple to go from http:// to https://. Other HTTPS related features we’ve Continue reading
Duty Calls: Technologies that Didn’t: CLNS
Russ White published an interesting story explaining why we’re using IP and not CLNS to build today’s Internet.
Let’s start with a few minor details he missed that I feel obliged to point out (apologies to Russ for being too pedantic, but you know me…):
New ACI deployment? Watch out when connecting APICs to Leafs
It’s one of those articles aimed at the people with Cisco ACI experience who don’t bother with reading all the install and other guides again while going through n’th time of building and ACI fabric, like me. When it comes to Cisco ACI, you really should. There’s a small change with the physical build of the third generation of APIC server where 10G SFP interfaces from APIC towards the Leaf switches (used for fabric discovery and later for the in-band controller to fabric communication) where 4x10G card is built in the server and not like 2x10G on M2/L2 and other
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Configure NXOS with Napalm
Napalm offers an easy way to configure and gather information from network devices using a unified API. No matter what vendor it is used against the input task and returned output will be the same. The only thing that will not be vendor neutral is the actual commands run and configuration being applied. This post documents experiences of trying to replace the whole configuration on NXOS using Napalm with Ansible.
Aws Deeplens – meet the devil dog – part 1
Now on first look she is so adorable, don’t be fooled by looks this dog is responsible for destruction of usb cables, foot wear , headphones, trash can openings and garden destruction.
Idea inspired from : https://youtu.be/ALKz1eKj4n0
Aws deeplens – https://aws.amazon.com/deeplens/
So here is the idea, over the course of next few days to months, I will start capturing many constructive and destructive images of my dog and start training a AI model which will give us a reasonable idea on what exactly she is up to when we leave her alone and alert us accordingly.
Am not a ML developer let alone be an expert, but aws makes it easy to train and deploy models and you don’t have to know much to get started. I developed another ML model with aws rekognition which identifies unwanted plants and shrubs in a raised bed.
I got set up this deeplens and deployed a model project in no less than 5 minutes and am being honest. Here is a sample model which identifies cat vs dog , this model comes is among example models.
It has a Mqtt topic which you can subscribe as well
-Rakesh
Worth Reading: Iron Chef – Certification Edition
In one of his recent blog posts Tom Hollingsworth described what I semi-consciously felt about the CCIE lab exam for at least 25 years: it’s full of contrived scenarios that look more like Iron Chef than real life.
I understand they had to make the lab harder and harder to stop cheating (because talking with candidates and flunking the incompetents is obviously not an option), and there’s only so much one can do with a limited set of technologies… but forcing networking engineers to find ever-more-devious ways to solve overly-complex problems is nothing else but fuel for rampant MacGyverism.
Anyway, I don’t think this mess will ever be fixed, so the only thing we can do is to enjoy the rant.
Weekend Reads 092520
In short: The Trolley Problem is not the kind of a problem that is open to a solution. The Trolley Problem is not for solving, it’s for teaching—for stimulating, for illustrating, for provoking, for exposing predilections and contradictions. It’s a thought experiment. (Philosophy also performs thought experiments with zombies.) The point is not to work out the answer to a riddle; the point is to think about the implications of the circumstances. We open Pandora’s Box, but we don’t intend to catch the demons and stuff them back in; we let them fly around wreaking Continue reading
What Does Normal Look Like Now? COVID’s Impact on the Internet
Six months ago, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, it accelerated the shift out of offices and schools and onto the Internet. Back then, we asked if the Internet was resilient enough to withstand Coronavirus. After several months of observations, we confirmed that it is, thanks to the strength, resilience and success of the open architecture that underpins it. Since then, concerns about the Internet’s ability to handle the increase in lockdown-driven traffic seem to have abated, resulting in fewer articles and blog posts on the topic.
Getting Back to Normal
As we head into the final months of 2020, some businesses have reopened in a limited capacity, allowing employees to return to their brick-and-mortar workplaces. Many students are also returning to school, whether in person or online. Yet, the lack of affordable and available Internet access remains a significant issue. Earlier this year, we heard stories about students sitting outside schools and libraries in search of reliable WiFi in order to attend classes. As the new school year starts in North America, we heard about students using WiFi signals from a local fast food chain restaurant to complete their homework. And with students now needing to Continue reading
Heavy Networking 541: An Update On Free Range Routing
Today's Heavy Networking jumps into the Free Range Routing (FRR) project, including features of the latest release, what's on the roadmap, and use cases and platform support. Our guest is Donald Sharp, a longtime FRR contributor and Principle Engineer at NVIDIA.
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Heavy Networking 541: An Update On Free Range Routing
Today's Heavy Networking jumps into the Free Range Routing (FRR) project, including features of the latest release, what's on the roadmap, and use cases and platform support. Our guest is Donald Sharp, a longtime FRR contributor and Principle Engineer at NVIDIA.A scrounger, scumbag and admitted thief get 140MM in VC funding
The CEO of Bolt seems to be a piece of work