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You may remember a three or so years ago when I famously declared that Meraki is not a good solution for enterprises. I know the folks at Meraki certainly haven’t. The profile for the hardware and services has slowly been rising inside of Cisco. More than just wireless with the requisite networking components, Meraki has now embraced security, SD-WAN, and even security cameras. They’ve moved into a lot of areas that customers have been asking about while also still trying to maintain the simplicity that Meraki is known for.
Having just finished up a Meraki presentation during Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the progress that Meraki has been making toward embracing their enterprise customer base. I’m not entirely convinced that they’ve made it yet, but the progress is starting to look good.
The first area where Meraki is starting to really make strides is in the scalability department. This video from Tech Field Day Extra is all about new security features in the platform, specifically with firewalls. Take a quick look:
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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration, Jeong et al., SoCC’19 [^1]
This paper caught my eye for its combination of an intriguing idea (opportunistic offload of computation from mobile devices to the edge) and the elegance of the way the web worker interface supports this use case. It’s live migration – but for web workers instead of the more usual VMs or containers.
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Unlike NixOS, Debian doesn’t have a builtin mechanism to rollback an installation to a specific point in time. However, thanks to snapshot.debian.org, a wayback machine for Debian packages, it is possible to downgrade all packages to the versions from a chosen date.
Let’s suppose we want to go back to January, 20th 2020. In
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/snapshot.list, we add a date-specific
snapshot as a source:
deb [check-valid-until=no] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200120T111800Z/ unstable main contrib non-free
In /etc/apt/preferences.d/snapshot.pref, we set the priority of all
packages from this source to 1001. This is above the default priority
of 500 and over 1000 to allow downgrade. See apt_preferences(5)
manual page for more details.
Package: * Pin: origin snapshot.debian.org Pin-Priority: 1001
After running apt update, we can check the result with apt policy:
$ apt policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 1001 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200120T111800Z unstable/non-free amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=amd64 origin snapshot.debian.org 1001 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200120T111800Z unstable/contrib amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64 origin snapshot.debian.org 1001 https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200120T111800Z unstable/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64 origin snapshot.debian.org […]
When requesting an upgrade, we Continue reading
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