Network Break 238: Google Borks Itself; Apple Slices IoT Gadgets Into Security Zones
On today's Network Break we dive into Google's self-inflicted outage, examine Apple's new HomeKit partnerships and Sign In, discuss the IEEE's reversal on Huawei, and parse other IT and tech news bits.
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The Week in Internet News: Better Broadband Boosts Employment
High-speed jobs: A new study suggests that better broadband service lowers unemployment rates, Vice.com reports. Researchers from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Oklahoma State University tracked broadband availability and unemployment rates in Tennessee and found that counties with access to high-speed broadband had a slightly lower unemployment rate than those with slower service.
More moderation: YouTube plans to remove white supremacist, hate speech and hoax videos, the Washington Post reports. The new policy will go farther than YouTube’s former prohibition on videos that promote violence or hatred against people based on their age, religious beliefs, gender, religion, immigration status and sexual orientation.
Encryption fight: Yandex, a provider of Internet-related services in Russia and the former Soviet Union, has reached an agreement with the Russian FSB security service on handing over encryption keys, Reuters reports. Details of the agreement weren’t immediately available. Yandex had originally resisted the FSB’s demand for encryption keys, Reuters says.
Bigger than the weather: U.S. residents believe fake news is a bigger problem than climate change or racism, according to a new survey detailed at Business Insider. Half of those surveyed said made-up news is a major problem, while just 46 said the Continue reading
Repost: Automation Without Simplification
The No Scripting Required to Start Your Automation Journey blog post generated lively discussions (and a bit of trolling from the anonymous peanut gallery). One of the threads focused on “how does automation work in real life IT department where it might be challenging to simplify operations before automating them due to many exceptions, legacy support…”
Here’s a great answer provided by another reader:
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Narbik CCIE Routing and Switching v5.1 Workbook NETMAP
IOL NETMAP file for Narbik's CCIE Routing and Switching v5.1 Workbook.Narbik CCIE Routing and Switching v5.1 Workbook NETMAP
Background I recently purchased Narbiks CCIE routing and switching v5.1 workbook bundle. Some of the labs in the workbook use devices with serial interfaces. I run most of my lab in Vagrant/KVM/Qemu. Qemu does not support serial interfaces and I dont have any physical devices any more. Shit!...Automation Workflow Patterns
Workflows vary from seriously simple to notoriously complex and as humans, we might not even consciously observe the subtleties of what a workflow comprises of. Workflows are the source of control semantics and comprise of many elements, some obvious some not so. This post is a primer to help you think about the kind of workflows you encounter drawn from my experiences. This post offers a view with conviction backed by experience.
To set the tone, workflows have logical flow, temporal behaviour, consume and transmit data, for processing triggers, acting on decision points and returning states. Since the 1970s, I believe we haven’t actually come that far from a workflow orchestration standpoint. Atomic units of code exist that do one thing well, a real win for the 1970s and good automation systems understand how to instantiate, feed these atomic blobs of logic data and grab their exit state and content. On a *nix system, it’s possible to use bash to create a single chain of tasks using the | operator. One blob of logic effectively feeds it’s output to the next blob of logic. Who needs an orchestrator? It’s sensible to include detection logic within each blob of code to Continue reading
Heavy Networking 454: Analyzing Encrypted Traffic In The TLS 1.3 Era With ExtraHop (Sponsored)
Today's Heavy Networking examines packet analysis with sponsor ExtraHop. We drill into the company's marketing claims about deep analysis at line rate with Mike Ernst, VP of Sales Engineering. We also tackle how ExtraHop handles encrypted traffic, incuding TLS 1.3 and Perfect Forward Secrecy. Mike promises to keep his inner salesperson on mute for this conversation.
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Weekend Reads 060619
On the one hand, testing is all too often the roadblock that stands between highly accelerated Dev processes and highly automated ops-driven delivery processes. But on the other hand, testing is essential for ensuring that the release doesn’t place the business at risk — undermining the very “customer experience” Continue reading
Microsoft Nips Amazon in Cloud Revenues, IHS Report Finds
That victory came on the back of its applications business, which generated $8.5 billion in...
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SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Nutanix’s Sunil Potti Leaves for Google Amid Revenue Miss
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for June 7, 2019: Nutanix is the latest to lose an exec to Google; BT taps...
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Home on the Palo Alto Networks Cyber Range
You’ve probably heard many horror stories by now about the crazy interviews that companies in Silicon Valley put you though. Sure, some of the questions are downright silly. How would I know how to weigh the moon? But the most insidious are the ones designed to look like skills tests. You may have to spend an hour optimizing a bubble sort or writing some crazy code that honestly won’t have much impact on the outcome of what you’ll be doing for the company.
Practical skills tests have always been the joy and the bane of people the world over. Many disciplines require you to have a practical examination before you can be certified. Doctors are one. The Cisco CCIE is probably the most well-known in IT. But what is the test really quizzing you on? Most people will admit that the CCIE is an imperfect representation of a network at best. It’s a test designed to get people to think about networks in different ways. But what about other disciplines? What about the ones where time is even more of the essence than it was in CCIE lab?
Red Team Go!
I was at Palo Alto Networks Ignite19 this past Continue reading
Hong Kong Chapter: Why Aren’t There More Women in Tech?
The tech industry in Hong Kong and across the world remains male dominated. Why aren’t there more women and what can be done to fix this?
To mark International Girls in ICT Day, which aims to encourage girls and young women to work in information and communications technology, the Internet Society Hong Kong Chapter organized an event to tackle these questions. Ladies X Tech X Gents: How Are the Three Compatible? brought together four successful developers to lead the dialogue:
- Ivy Luk, Sales Engineer at Clare.AI (an Artificial Intelligence digital assistant solutions provider)
- Emma Wong, Organiser of Google Developer Group and Women Techmakers Hong Kong
- May Yeung, Director of Internet Society Hong Kong Chapter
- Rick Mak, Co-Founder of Oursky (a web and mobile application development company)
Why are there so few women in the tech industry?
A common observation among the speakers was the high dropout rate of women developers in the tech industry – amid the already low women to men ratio. The speakers noted that it drops from roughly 3:7 at school to 1:10 at work.
One of the main reasons women leave the tech industry is the gender stereotype that it is a masculine profession. Continue reading
Where to find quality network engineers?
Probably you aren’t good enough
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As Expected: Where Have All the SDN Controllers Gone?
Roy Chua (SDx Central) published a blog post titled “Where Have All the SDN Controllers Gone” a while ago describing the gradual disappearance of SDN controller hype.
No surprise there - some of us were pointing out the gap between marketing and reality years ago.
It was evident to anyone familiar with how networking actually works that in a generic environment the drawbacks of orthodox centralized control plane SDN approach far outweigh its benefits. There are special use cases like intelligent patch panels where a centralized control plane makes sense.
Read more ...Arista Fills Out Its Cognitive Enterprise Portfolio
The new PoE switch and WiFi access point bolster its software-led equipment products as it battles...
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