Enhancing the Optimizely Experimentation Platform with Cloudflare Workers

Enhancing the Optimizely Experimentation Platform with Cloudflare Workers
Enhancing the Optimizely Experimentation Platform with Cloudflare Workers

This is a joint post by Whelan Boyd, Senior Product Manager at Optimizely and Remy Guercio, Product Marketing Manager for Cloudflare Workers.

Experimentation is an important ingredient in driving business growth: whether you’re iterating on a product or testing new messaging, there’s no substitute for the data and insights gathered from conducting rigorous experiments in the wild.

Optimizely is the world’s leading experimentation platform, with thousands of customers worldwide running tests for over 140 million visitors daily. If Optimizely were a website, it would be the third most trafficked in the US.  And when it came time to experiment with reinvigorating their own platform, Optimizely chose Cloudflare Workers.

Improving Performance and Agility with Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers is a globally distributed serverless compute platform that runs across Cloudflare’s network of 180 locations worldwide. Workers are designed for flexibility, with many different use cases ranging from customizing configuration of Cloudflare services and features to building full, independent applications.

In this post, we’re going to focus on how Workers can be used to improve performance and increase agility for more complex applications. One of the key benefits of Workers is that they allow developers to move decision logic and data Continue reading

Cisco will use AI/ML to boost intent-based networking

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are expected to be some of the big topics at next week’s Cisco Live event and the company is already talking about how those technologies will help drive the next generation of Intent-Based Networking.“Artificial intelligence will change how we manage networks, and it’s a change we need,” wrote John Apostolopoulos Cisco CTO and vice president of Enterprise Networking in a blog about how Cisco says these technologies impact the network. [ Now see 7 free network tools you must have. ] AI is the next major step for networking capabilities, and while researchers have talked in the past about how great AI would be, now the compute power and algorithms exist to make it possible, Apostolopoulos told Network World. To read this article in full, please click here

Want to Make a Difference in Your Community? Apply for a Beyond the Net Medium or Large Grant

Applications are now open for the 2019 Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants. All Internet Society Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in good standing are eligible to apply.

For more than a decade, Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants and the former Community Grants Programme have played a major role in empowering people to improve their communities via the Internet. These programmes have reached thousands of people by helping to bring to life community-driven projects that teach digital skills, enable continued trust in the Internet, build infrastructure in rural and underserved areas, and connect Indigenous communities.

The Beyond the Net Funding Programme is now part of the Internet Society Foundation, but will continue to support the excellent work of our Chapter and SIG communities. The Medium and Large Grants are available for funding at a maximum of USD $30,000.

Applications are open until 31 July 2019. For more details, visit Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grant Programme page. 

While you’re there, check out everything else the Foundation is doing!

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Three years on air

Hello my friend,

Three years ago, on the 5th June 2016, we have posted the first article about Nokia SR OS/ Cisco IOS XR interop. We can dispute, if it was long ago or not, but what we can’t dispute the amount of information shared with you since that time on various network and automation topics!



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Over these three years we have posted 75 (seventy five!) articles about the design, configuration and implementation of the multivendor networks with Nokia SR OS, Cisco IOS XR, Arista EOS and Cumulus Linux. Out of that 75, the 21 articles were written in this third year. Thanks to the blog activity we were awarded as the CiscoChampion 2019 as a top tech influencers worldwide.

Review of the first year articles

Review of the second year articles

New format

The last year was a kind of breakthrough, not only based on the topics we were covering, about which we’ll Continue reading

Data validation for machine learning

Data validation for machine learning Breck et al., SysML’19

Last time out we looked at continuous integration testing of machine learning models, but arguably even more important than the model is the data. Garbage in, garbage out.

In this paper we focus on the problem of validation the input data fed to ML pipelines. The importance of this problem is hard to overstate, especially for production pipelines. Irrespective of the ML algorithms used, data errors can adversely affect the quality of the generated model.

Breck et al. describe for us the data validation pipeline deployed in production at Google, “used by hundreds of product teams to continuously monitor and validate several petabytes of production data per day.” That’s trillions of training and serving examples per day, across more than 700 machine learning pipelines. More than enough to have accumulated some hard-won experience on what can go wrong and the kinds of safeguards it is useful to have in place!

What could possibly go wrong?

The motivating example is based on an actual production outage at Google, and demonstrates a couple of the trickier issues: feedback loops caused by training on corrupted data, and distance between data Continue reading

Technology’s Promise – Highlights from DEF CON China 1.0

Technology's Promise - Highlights from DEF CON China 1.0
Technology's Promise - Highlights from DEF CON China 1.0

DEF CON is one of the largest and oldest security conferences in the world. Last year, it launched a beta event in China in hopes of bringing the local security communities closer together. This year, the organizer made things official by introducing DEF CON China 1.0 with a promise to build a forum for China where everyone can gather, connect, and grow together.

Themed "Technology's Promise", DEF CON China kicked off on 5/30 in Beijing and attracted participants of all ages. Watching young participants test, play and tinker with new technologies with such curiosity and excitement absolutely warmed our hearts!

It was a pleasure to participate in DEF CON China 1.0 this year and connect with local communities. Great synergy as we exchanged ideas and learnings on cybersecurity topics. Did I mention we also spoiled ourselves with the warm hospitality, wonderful food, live music, and amazing crowd while in Beijing.

Technology's Promise - Highlights from DEF CON China 1.0
Event Highlights: Cloudflare Team Meets with DEF CON China Visitors and Organizers (DEF CON Founder Jeff Moss and Baidu Security General Manager Jefferey Ma)

科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会

科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会
科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会

科技在发展，时代在进步，许多事情或许本质并没有改变，但呈现的方式已经日新月异，这或许就是我们常说的 — 未来。就像许多年前，我们还通过明信片和相册向亲友分享我们生活中的点点滴滴。许多年后，我们有了朋友圈、微博、Facebook、Instagram、抖音、各式博客。幼时还守着电视看着预录好的节目，接触外界的形形色色，现在我们透过直播的镜头，弹指间便能瞬息感受世界当下的脉动。

科技改变着我们，我们推动着未来

许多人都在电影中看到过极客指尖敲动，在数字的世界中急速驰骋的场景。然而现实生活中，这些人在哪儿不得而知。随着技术的发展，越来越多的年轻人加入了这个群体。在国外一直都有 DEF CON 这样的世界极客盛会。中国此前也还没有，直到去年 DEF CON 来到了中国，主办方斥巨资引进大会，想打造属于中国的技术社区，通过这样一个契机，将大家聚在一起，一同成长，最终构建一个属于中国自己的、真正的安全社区。于是，在 DEF CON 的名下，多了一个 DEF CON China。  

今年，DEF CON 经过一年的沉淀后，进入了正式版本 1.0，这个世界顶级的安全会议，在五月底，以 "Technology's Promise" — “科技点燃未来” 为主旨，于北京拉开了序幕，像是一位家长等待着 “孩子们” 一起过节。这个六一，还有什么能比来 DEF CON China 1.0 众乐乐更具意涵呢？

作为在中国地区的正式版本，DEF CON China 吸引了很多大咖前来参与，一直致力于网络安全的 Cloudflare，这次也前来共襄盛举，带来了最新的科技跟大家分享。

科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会
大会实况：Cloudflare 团队与DEF CON China 与会者和主办方进行交流 (DEF CON 创办人 Jeff Moss 与百度安全部总经理马杰)

六一儿童节前夕，小小参与者对新科技的好奇及探索新知识的向往令人对未来充满信心。(图源: Abhinav SP | #BugZee, DEFCON China )

DEF CON China 1.0 的徽章由 DEF CON 著名徽章设计师 Joe Grand 设计，采用柔性电路板打造，赋予冰冷的朋克气质艺术美感，用此激活点亮互动式艺术装置 “无极之树”。

科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会
Capture The Flag (CTF) 夺旗赛起源于DEF CON，是目前代表全球最高技术水平和影响力的 CTF。夺旗的赢家除了获得荣耀，也肩负一份责任，将极客精神传承并发扬光大。

Cloudflare 的使命是建立一个更好的互联网

Cloudflare 成立于 2009 年，是一家跨国科技公司，在全球 80 个国家部有 180 个数据中心。我们的性能和安全服务协同工作，以减少网站、移动应用程序和端到端 API 的延迟，同时防御 DDoS 攻击、滥用机器人和数据泄露。

此次大会是 Cloudflare 在区域深耕的第一小步。相信随着时间的推移，越来越多的用户会认识并了解 Cloudflare，此而加入我们。点此启用免费帐户，立即体验更快更安全的网络：cloudflare.com/sign-up

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Cloudflare 具有全球视野、本地化洞见的团队期待构建更好的全球互联网未来。我们北京和全球的办公室都在招聘人才，欢迎有志一同的伙伴加入我们！cloudflare.com/careers

科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会
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Data center workloads become more complex despite promises to the contrary

Data centers are becoming more complex and still run the majority of workloads despite the promises of simplicity of deployment through automation and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), not to mention how the cloud was supposed to take over workloads.That’s the finding of the Uptime Institute's latest annual global data center survey (registration required). The majority of IT loads still run on enterprise data centers even in the face of cloud adoption, putting pressure on administrators to have to manage workloads across the hybrid infrastructure.To read this article in full, please click here

Data center workloads become more complex despite promises to the contrary

Data centers are becoming more complex and still run the majority of workloads despite the promises of simplicity of deployment through automation and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), not to mention how the cloud was supposed to take over workloads.That’s the finding of the Uptime Institute's latest annual global data center survey (registration required). The majority of IT loads still run on enterprise data centers even in the face of cloud adoption, putting pressure on administrators to have to manage workloads across the hybrid infrastructure.To read this article in full, please click here

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5G will augment Wi-Fi, not replace it

There’s arguably no technology topic that’s currently hotter than 5G. It was a major theme of the most recent Mobile World Congress show and has reared its head in other events such as Enterprise Connect and almost every vendor event I attend.Some vendors have positioned 5G as a panacea to all network problems and predict it will eradicate all other forms of networking. Views like that are obviously extreme, but I do believe that 5G will have an impact on the networking industry and is something that network engineers should be aware of.To read this article in full, please click here

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