Alexa , AWS Lambda & AWS IOT MQTT and you can interact with anything

I hear a lot on IOT but don’t have a clue on underlying protocols. My interest is only to understand how it might help a business or more than that my personal interests. So continuing the server power on/off series I wanted to do it with Amazon echo voice command. Now, this is not a smart power switch where you can power-on with a command on Echo but you actually have to send a message to IDRAC, we already covered this in a previous post.

Well, the main goal isn’t to power-on a server that can be done manually as it sits beside me, the main goal is to extend this to any business / personal ideas which might get the benefit.

Summary – Develop a small interactive model to understand Alexa voice service / AWS lambda and MQTT so that we can get a feel of what can be achieved with this.

I will not go much into any tech explanations or bore you with English, I will put here two screenshots and code to git, hopefully, you should be able to give it a try.

 

Its illustrated in 6 steps

  1. Voice command to echo (I have made Continue reading

From Manufacturing to Climate Analytics: DockerCon speakers on real-world use cases

DockerCon brings industry leaders and experts of the container world to one event where they share their knowledge, experience and guidance. This year is no different. For the next few weeks, we’re going to highlight a few of our amazing speakers and the talks they will be leading.

In this third highlight, we have several speakers who will be sharing their real world Docker use cases and learnings.  These are the folks who have already put things in place and are here to share and inspire. Interested in transforming legacy applications? Or maybe large scale data analytics is your focus. Maybe you’re a software vendor – or have plans to be – and want to learn about containerizing your application. To learn more, register now to attend the session featuring real Docker users like you.

In case you missed them, check out our previous speaker highlights:

Transforming a 15+ Year Old Semiconductor Manufacturing Environment

More on Jeanie’s session here.

 

Jeanie Schwenk

Engineer, Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager at Jireh Semiconductor

What is your breakout about?

I was just starting to look at Docker at this time last year. Our company’s Continue reading

Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that some VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pulse may improperly secure tokens and cookies, allowing nefarious actors an opening to invade and take control over an end user’s system. The DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning comes on the heels of a notice from Carnegie Mellon's CERT that multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files.To read this article in full, please click here

Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that some VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pulse may improperly secure tokens and cookies, allowing nefarious actors an opening to invade and take control over an end user’s system. The DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning comes on the heels of a notice from Carnegie Mellon's CERT that multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files.To read this article in full, please click here

Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that some VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pusle may improperly secure tokens and cookies, allowing nefarious actors an opening to invade and take control over an end user’s system. The DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning comes on the heels of a notice from Carnegie Mellon's CERT that multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files.To read this article in full, please click here

Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that some VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pusle may improperly secure tokens and cookies, allowing nefarious actors an opening to invade and take control over an end user’s system. The DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning comes on the heels of a notice from Carnegie Mellon's CERT that multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files.To read this article in full, please click here

Weekend Reads 041119

Since at least the middle of the last century, the question of how to get employees to improve has generated a good deal of opinion and research. —Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

Should the IETF publish standard specifications of technologies that facilitate third-party eavesdropping on communications or should it refrain from working on such technologies? —Geoff Huston

n February, the company announced its intention to move forward with the development of the Curie cable, a new undersea line stretching from California to Chile. It will be the first private intercontinental cable ever built by a major non-telecom company. Tyler Cooper—

You have your morning coffee in hand, you’ve just finished your daily scrum, and you sit down at your computer to start your day. Up pops a Slack message. You scan your emails, then bounce back to Slack. —Sarah Wall

“Open core” evolved as one of the primary ways for companies that maintain an open source project to make money. They offer a product that at the “core” is the open source project, but with features that only paying customers have access too. MongoDB and Elastic, —Eric Anderson

EU antitrust regulators should consider forcing tech giants such as Google and Continue reading

BrandPost: How the Server Rack in your Converged Infrastructure can Speed up your Edge Computing Deployment

According to research firm MarketsandMarkets™, from 2017 through to 2022, edge computing will experience a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 35.4% (from $1.47 Billion US to $6.72 Billion US). Those in the business of distributing, configuring and selling IT solutions recognize that traditional IT offerings will need to be modified in order to accommodate these new edge computing environments.A number of factors influence the adaptation of edge computing in what are primarily remote locations. These include fast delivery and ease of installation, operation and management of that hardware equipment such as server racks and software. These systems also need to perform in such a way as to address latency, bandwidth cost and data location issues.To read this article in full, please click here

Heavy Networking 441: Active Network Testing And Service Assurance With Netrounds (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking we talk with sponsor Netrounds about measuring network performance and user experience through active testing. Netrounds' software generates synthetic traffic to measure actual performance of critical services, provides assurance that KPIs are being met, and identifies where problems occur.

The post Heavy Networking 441: Active Network Testing And Service Assurance With Netrounds (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Failure Analysis: An Interesting way to Break CAPWAP

I recently stumbled into what I think is a very interesting failure scenario with a Cisco Wireless solution. This was a traditional controller based solution that leveraged a CAPWAP data and control plane. The symptoms were fairly consistent and strange.

Symptoms:

  • When issues are occurring, all uploads reduce to about 1.5Mb/s
  • Installing a new AP seems to solve the issue
  • Issue re-occurs in a few minutes
  • Issues only occur for one specific site
  • Wireless is configured consistently across 5 sites
  • RF is not an issue

Topology:

When I got involved with this, a few people had reviewed the configuration and TAC had been involved for some time. While on-site, I took a look at RF and channel utilization (expecting to find it to be ugly since I knew it was heavily dependent on 2.4Ghz). My first order of business was to spin up a test AP in its own group and advertise a test SSID on a 5Ghz channel. Upon doing so, both iPerf and Speedtest were >50Mb/s. My initial thought was that the density needed to be increased and the radios tweaked to get more clients on 5Ghz. However, a few minutes into my testing–my upload also Continue reading

Intent-Based Networking Resources

Every now and then I get a question along the lines of I’m your subscriber and would like to know more about X, so I decided to start creating technology-specific pages on www.ipSpace.net that would include links to most relevant ipSpace.net blog posts, webinars, sections in our online courses, and interesting third-party resources.

The subscriber triggering this process asked me about Intent-Based Networking, so here’s the relevant resources page.

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