Worth Reading: Why Doctors Think They’re the Best
Another great article by Scott Alexander, this time explaining the consequences of selection bias. The applicability to network engineering (and continuous use of shaky solutions) is left as an exercise for the reader.
2019 Year In Review
2019 turned out to be a pretty productive year. At the start of the year I set myself a few goals outlined in this post. How did I stack up? Read on to find out. 2019 Goals Loose 20kgs I started out the year at 89.9kgs and wanting to lose 20kgs. I finished the year at 71.9kgs a loss of...2019 Year In Review
How did I go with my 2019 goals.Security is a Glaring, Moving Target for IoT
“Security is one of the biggest factors limiting IoT expansion,” said Bill Curtis, resident...
How to Configure BurpSuite to use Tor as Proxy
BurpSuite is a manual toolkit for investigating web security. Burp Proxy allows manual testers to intercept all requests and responses between the browser and the target application, even when HTTPS is being used. The tutorial discusses configuration of Burp to use connection over Tor network. 1. BurpSuite Community Edition We can find BurpSuite Community Edition […]Continue reading...
BiB085 – Data Driven Infrastructure – Is that a thing ?
Software Defined Infrastrcture has changed the way we operate networks but little impact on the process of design or decision making. Doing the same old thing better isn't enough, enter Data Driven Infrastructure.BiB085 – Data Driven Infrastructure – Is that a thing ?
Software Defined Infrastrcture has changed the way we operate networks but little impact on the process of design or decision making. Doing the same old thing better isn't enough, enter Data Driven Infrastructure.
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Amazon Claims FedRAMP Compliance for a Spate of Services
Amazon claims to have bolstered its FedRAMP compliance by nearly 18% since the beginning of...
France Finally Jumps on 5G Bandwagon
Europe’s fifth-most populated country is the last in that region to launch 5G-specific spectrum...
Time For Improvement
Welcome to 2020! First and foremost, no posts from me involving vision or eyesight or any other optometrist puns for this year. I promise 366 days free of anything having to do with eyeballs. That does mean a whole world of other puns that I’m going to be focusing on!
Now, let’s look back at 2019. The word that I could use to describe it was “hectic”. It felt like everything was in overdrive all year long. There were several times that I got to the end of the week and realized that I didn’t have any kind of post ready to go. I’m the kind of person that likes to write when the inspiration hits me. And instead I found myself scrambling to write up some thoughts. And that was something I told myself that I was going to get away from. So we’re going to call that one a miss and get back to trying to post on a day other than Friday.
That also means that, given all the other content that I’ve been working on with Gestalt IT that I’m going to have to schedule some time actually working on that content instead of hoping that Continue reading
Getting Started with the Rust Programming Language
A programming language that has begun picking up momentum in the community lately is Rust. This is a guide aimed at helping folks get started with the Rust Programming Language. Rust has been around for a while with a stable v1.0 shipping in 2015. Rust initially came from Mozilla who maintain the multi-million line C++ codebase in Firefox that has ... The post Getting Started with the Rust Programming Language appeared first on NetworkStatic | Brent Salisbury's Blog....
Returning to First Principles
I feel very strongly (and have for some time) that fundamentals are really important in a technical career. I didn’t start my career with a traditional CS degree, and while there were some fundamental knowledge to be picked up along the way, much of my education and early work experience bypassed a lot of the lower-level fundamentals and placed heavy emphasis on operating technology. This feeling of pulling levers and pushing buttons, rather than actually building things, in large part was responsible for me shifting back into software development full-time.Looking Back: 2019 Project Report Card
As has been my custom over the last five years or so, in the early part of the year I like to share with my readers a list of personal projects for the upcoming year (here’s the 2019 list). Then, near the end of that same year or very early in the following year, I evaluate how I performed against that list of personal projects (for example, here’s my project report card for 2018). In this post, I’ll continue that pattern with an evaluation of my progress against my 2019 project list.
For reference, here’s the list of projects I set out for myself for 2019 (you can read the associated blog post, if you like, for additional context):
- Make at least one code contribution to an open source project. (Stretch goal: Make three code contributions to open source projects.)
- Add at least three new technology areas to my “learning-tools” repository. (Stretch goal: Add five new technology areas to the “learning-tools” repository.)
- Become more familiar with CI/CD solutions and patterns.
- Create at least three non-written content pieces. (Stretch goal: Create five pieces of non-written content.)
- Complete a “wildcard project” (if applicable).
Here’s how I Continue reading
SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — December 2019
Aviatrix CEO: SD-WAN is dead. AWS killed it; Fortinet leapfrogs Cisco with 21,000 SD-WAN customers;...