Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Onward! ’19

Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. You might also be inspired to help work towards a better future. I’m all in :).

The rock or the hard place?

On the one-hand we have ‘cloud apps’ which make it easy to access our work from multiple devices and to collaborate online with others (e.g. Google Docs, Trello, …). On the other hand we have good old-fashioned native apps that you install on your operating system (a dying breed? See e.g. Brendan Burns’ recent tweet). Somewhere in the middle, but not-quite perfect, are online (browser-based) apps with offline support.

The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data.

Unfortunately, cloud apps are problematic in this regard. Although they let you access your data anywhere, all data access must go via the server, and you can only do the things that the server will let you do. Continue reading

KubeCon 2019 Day 1 Summary

This week I’m in San Diego for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Instead of liveblogging each session individually, I thought I might instead attempt a “daily summary” post that captures highlights from all the sessions each day. Here’s my recap of day 1 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

Keynotes

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon doesn’t have “one” keynote; it uses a series of shorter keynotes by various speakers. This has advantages and disadvantages; one key advantage is that there is more variety, and the attendees are more likely to stay engaged. I particularly enjoyed Bryan Liles’ CNCF project updates; I like Bryan’s sense of humor, and getting updates on some of the CNCF projects is always useful. As for some of the other keynotes, those that were thinly-disguised vendor sales pitches were generally pretty poor.

Introduction to the Virtual Kubelet

I was running late for the start of this session due to booth duty, and I guess the stuff I needed most was presented in that portion I missed. Most of what I saw was about Netflix Titus, and how the Netflix team ported Titus from Mesos to Virtual Kubelet. However, that information was so specific to Netflix’s particular use of Virtual Kubelet that it Continue reading

Orange, SoftBank Pick Fortinet SD-WAN

In addition to expanding its service provider reach, Fortinet announced an alliance with Siemens to...

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USAF: Kubernetes, Containers Saved 100 Years of Taxpayer Money

"That means that all of these programs we were going to spend 100 years of dead weight [on] is now...

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Aryaka Breaks Out SD-WAN Into Smart Services Suite

Aryaka's restructured SmartServices product line breaks out many features previously only available...

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Orange Taps ThousandEyes for Visibility Across Clouds, SD-WAN

The partners are pitching enterprise-grade managed internet, multi-cloud connectivity, and SD-WAN...

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Heavy Networking 487: Fortinet And The Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored)

Fortinet sponsors today's Heavy Networking podcast. You probably know Fortinet as a firewall company, but today's conversation focuses on Fortinet's secure SD-WAN capabilities. Fortinet guests Nirav Shah, senior director of products and solutions; and Alex Samonte, director of technical architecture come on the podcast to talk about key SD-WAN features, how SD-WAN is evolving, the role of SD-WAN in cloud access, and more.

The post Heavy Networking 487: Fortinet And The Secure SD-WAN (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Intel targets Nvidia (again) with GPU and cross-processor API

Third time’s the charm? Intel is hoping so. It released details of its Xe Graphics Architecture, with which it plans to span use cases from mobility to high-performance computing (HPC) servers – and which it hopes will succeed where its Larrabee GPU and Xeon Phi manycore processors failed.It’s no secret Intel wants a piece of the high-performance computing HPC action, given that it introduced the chip and other products at it Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver, Colo., this week just ahead of the Supercomputing ’19 tradeshow.To read this article in full, please click here

Intel targets Nvidia (again) with GPU and cross-processor API

Third time’s the charm? Intel is hoping so. It released details of its Xe Graphics Architecture, with which it plans to span use cases from mobility to high-performance computing (HPC) servers – and which it hopes will succeed where its Larrabee GPU and Xeon Phi manycore processors failed.It’s no secret Intel wants a piece of the high-performance computing HPC action, given that it introduced the chip and other products at it Intel HPC Developer Conference in Denver, Colo., this week just ahead of the Supercomputing ’19 tradeshow.To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft Drives Confidential Computing Into Kubernetes

The initiative taps into Intel’s Software Guard Extension platform to support confidential...

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MEF Trumpets Progress on SD-WAN, Eyes Edge on 5G

MEF’s community has grown about 70% to more than 200 organizations during the last 18 months, and...

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SC19 SCinet: Grafana network traffic dashboard

The Grafana sFlow-RT Countries and Networks dashboard above shows traffic on the SCinet network, described as the fastest, most powerful volunteer-built network in the world. The network is build each year to support The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. The SC19 conference is currently underway in Denver, Colorado and the screen capture is live data from the conference network.
The high speed switches and routers used to construct the SCinet network support industry standard sFlow streaming telemetry. In this case an instance of the sFlow-RT analytics engine receives the telemetry stream and generates flow analytics that are scraped every 15 seconds by an instance of the Prometheus time series database. The Prometheus database is in turn queried by an instance of Grafana which generated the dashboard shown at the top of the page.
In addition, sFlow-RT is running an embedded application that generates a real-time, up to the second, view of the traffic over the last 5 minutes.
This solution is extremely scalable. A single sFlow-RT instance, allocated only 1G of memory, easily monitors 158 network devices, while supporting 11 different applications (including the real-time dashboard and Prometheus export applications shown above).

A10 Says Multi-Cloud Is Passé, Pushes Polynimbus

Polynimbus is essentially multi-cloud phase two, and it addresses how to manage and secure...

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Five Key Takeaways from the Summit in Asia-Pacific on Deploying, Sustaining and Scaling Community Networks

Community networks (CNs) offer a solution to connect the unconnected billions. They are becoming all the more important as recent trends reveal a slowdown in Internet connectivity growth through national operators in the Asia-Pacific region.

Late August, the Internet Society and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific organized the Asia-Pacific Regional CN Summit 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event brought together about 110 participants that included high-level government officials from Asia and the Pacific, and a multidisciplinary group of regional experts on community networks, civil society groups, industry representatives, and academics and researchers to deliberate on critical issues surrounding CNs.

What are Community Networks?

They are “do-it-yourself” networks built by people for people. They are not just connecting communities, but are empowering rural and remote communities to improve their lives. Speakers and participants at the Summit shared some successful examples from the region, including India’s Garm Marg Rural Broadband Project, which has improved communities’ access to government and financial services, Nepal’s community networks, which have helped communities recover from the devastating Gorkha Earthquake in 2015 and prepare for future disasters, and Pakistan’s community network, which has enhanced learning for girls at a remote Continue reading

Nvidia, Azure Bring Supercomputing to the Masses

Nvidia's GPU-accelerated supercomputers will soon be available for researchers to rent on Microsoft...

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5G and Me: And Manufacturing

With its increased speed, higher bandwidth and lower latency, fifth-generation wireless cellular...

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NSX Service Mesh on VMware Tanzu: CONNECT & PROTECT Applications Across Your Kubernetes Clusters and Clouds

Authors: Mark Schweighardt, Tom Spoonemore

Modern enterprises are sprawling and complicated. They are transitioning from private to public clouds to address, for example, performance, availability, and data residency requirements, and to gain access to advanced services such as analytics and ML. They are also transforming their application architectures from monoliths to distributed microservices.

In August 2019, VMware introduced VMware Tanzu, a new portfolio of products and services to transform the way enterprises BUILD modern applications on Kubernetes, consistently RUN Kubernetes across clouds, and MANAGE Kubernetes fleets from a single control point. This is a huge win for our customers: Using Tanzu Mission Control to consistently create and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters across any cloud. 

But how do we consistently connect and secure traffic between the services distributed across all of these clusters and clouds, while delivering on application SLAs? Today we further develop this picture by introducing NSX Service Mesh on VMware Tanzu. NSX Service Mesh provides an application connectivity and security fabric that can span across all of your Kubernetes clusters and cloud environments. NSX Service Mesh allows you to: 

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