2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use

Most Important Metric Tracked For Database Performance - Queries, Reliability & Memory

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year.

SQL vs. NoSQL

Episode 46 – Bridging The Gap Between IT And The Business

Historically, engineers and practitioners have had a hard time communicating IT’s value to business leadership. This gap between IT and the business will present even greater challenges as businesses grow to depend on their networks and systems for even more strategic advantage. In this episode we explore some of the reasons why this gap exists and discuss some potential things you can do to help bridge the gap between IT engineering and business leadership.

 

 

We would like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective.  Cumulus Networks makes networking software for the open, modern data center. It’s the only open networking software that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the worlds largest data center operators. Cumulus also just launched a brand new certification program offering free resources, on-demand modules, live training, and a certifications exam. If you would like to learn more you can head on over to https://cumulusnetworks.com/certified

 

Denise Donohue
Guest
Mike Bushong
Guest
Jordan Martin
Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Host
Russ White
Host

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Loggly

Loggly is a cloud logging and and analysis platform. This article will demonstrate how to integrate network events generated from industry standard sFlow instrumentation build into network switches.
Loggly offers a free 14 day evaluation, so you can try this example at no cost.
ICMP unreachable describes how monitoring ICMP destination unreachable messages can help identify misconfigured hosts and scanning behavior. The article uses the sFlow-RT real-time analytics software to process the raw sFlow and report on unreachable messages.

The following script, loggly.js, modifies the sFlow-RT script from the article to send events to the Loggly HTTP/S Event Endpoint: 
var token = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx';
  
var url = 'https://logs-01.loggly.com/inputs/'+token+'/tag/http/';

var keys = [
  'icmpunreachablenet',
  'icmpunreachablehost',
  'icmpunreachableprotocol',
  'icmpunreachableport'
];

for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
  var key = keys[i];
  setFlow(key, {
    keys:'macsource,ipsource,macdestination,ipdestination,' + key,
    value:'frames',
    log:true,
    flowStart:true
  });
}

setFlowHandler(function(rec) {
  var keys = rec.flowKeys.split(',');
  var msg = {
    flow_type:rec.name,
    src_mac:keys[0],
    src_ip:keys[1],
    dst_mac:keys[2],
    dst_ip:keys[3],
    unreachable:keys[4]
  };

  try { http(url,'post','application/json',JSON.stringify(msg)); }
  catch(e) { logWarning(e); };
}, keys);
Some notes on the script:
  1. Modify the script to use the correct token for your Loggly account.
  2. Including MAC addresses can help identify Continue reading

Why Wi-Fi needs artificial intelligence

This week Juniper Networks plunked down $405 million to acquire Wi-Fi vendor Mist Systems. As always, Network World's Michael Cooney did a fine job covering the news, so I won’t rehash that. What I want to look at is something specific that Cooney wrote — that “Mist touts itself as having developed an artificial-intelligence-based wireless platform.” Why does Wi-Fi need artificial intelligence (AI)?To read this article in full, please click here

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy

Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy Hellerstein & Alvaro, arXiv 2019

The CALM conjecture (and later theorem) was first introduced to the world in a 2010 keynote talk at PODS. Behind its simple formulation there’s a deep lesson to be learned with the power to create ripples through our industry akin to the influence of the CAP theorem. It rewards time spent ruminating on the implications. Therefore I was delighted to see this paper from Hellerstein & Alvaro providing a fresh and very approachable look at CALM that gives us an excuse to do exactly that. All we need now is a catchy name for a movement! A CALM system is a NoCo system, “No Coordination.”

When it comes to high performing scalable distributed systems, coordination is a killer. It’s the dominant term in the Universal Scalability Law. When we can avoid or reduce the need for coordination things tend to get simpler and faster. See for example Coordination avoidance in database systems, and more recently the amazing performance of Anna which gives a two-orders-of-magnitude speed-up through coordination elimination. So we should avoid coordination whenever we can.

So far so good, but when exactly can we avoid Continue reading

SD-WAN: 10 essential considerations

SD-WAN is the hottest new technology in networking and many distributed organizations have already or will soon adopt SD-WAN solutions. Here are 10 essential considerations for IT organizations weighing whether to adopt or expand their SD-WANs. To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Stopping Drupal’s SA-CORE-2019-003 Vulnerability

Stopping Drupal’s SA-CORE-2019-003 Vulnerability

On the 20th February 2019, Drupal announced that they had discovered a severe vulnerability and that they would be releasing a patch for it the next day. Drupal is a Content Management System used by many of our customers, which made it important that our WAF protect against the vulnerability as quickly as possible.

As soon as Drupal released their patch, we analysed it to establish what kind of payloads could be used against it and created rules to mitigate these. By analysing the patch we were able to put together WAF rules to protect cloudflare customers running Drupal.

We identified the type of vulnerability we were dealing within 15 minutes. From here, we were able to deploy rules to block the exploit well before any real attacks were seen.

The exploit

As Drupal's release announcement explains, a site is affected if:

  • It has the Drupal 8 RESTful API enabled                                      
  • Or it uses one of the 8 modules found to be affected

From looking at the patch we very quickly realised the exploit would be based on deserialization. The option ['allowed_classes' Continue reading

BrandPost: 4 Tips for Easier Edge Deployments

There are plenty of reasons for organizations to embrace edge computing. By moving applications, data, and computing services to the edge of a network, as opposed to a large data center or cloud, organizations can lower operating costs, improve application performance, reduce network traffic, and achieve real-time data analytics.As more organizations come to know the advantages of edge of network devices, many are eyeing deployments. In fact, according to the IDG 2018 State of the Network, 56% of networking professionals have plans for edge computing in their organizations.To read this article in full, please click here

4 Tips for Easier Edge Deployments

There are plenty of reasons for organizations to embrace edge computing. By moving applications, data, and computing services to the edge of a network, as opposed to a large data center or cloud, organizations can lower operating costs, improve application performance, reduce network traffic, and achieve real-time data analytics.As more organizations come to know the advantages of edge of network devices, many are eyeing deployments. In fact, according to the IDG 2018 State of the Network, 56% of networking professionals have plans for edge computing in their organizations.To read this article in full, please click here

4 Tips for Easier Edge Deployments

There are plenty of reasons for organizations to embrace edge computing. By moving applications, data, and computing services to the edge of a network, as opposed to a large data center or cloud, organizations can lower operating costs, improve application performance, reduce network traffic, and achieve real-time data analytics.As more organizations come to know the advantages of edge of network devices, many are eyeing deployments. In fact, according to the IDG 2018 State of the Network, 56% of networking professionals have plans for edge computing in their organizations.To read this article in full, please click here

Cumulus Networks Named to CRN Data Center 50

Cumulus Networks is proud to announce CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named us to its 2019 Data Center 50 list.

This annual list identifies technology suppliers that offer the right management tools to help businesses and solution providers ensure data centers run with maximum performance and efficiency. We couldn’t be more thrilled! This accomplishment really solidifies our vision — to build the modern data center networks for applications of the future.

It’s been a while since we updated our blog community with our evolved vision for the modern data center, so we thought this would be a great opportunity to review a little bit about what Cumulus has been doing lately and how our products have evolved.

Our story — Building the modern data center

We pride ourselves on providing networking software to design, run and operate modern data centers that are simple, open, resilient, scalable and operationally efficient.

Our network operating system, Cumulus Linux, is a powerful, open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale using web-scale principles like the world’s largest data centers.

When it comes to data center networks, traditional network solutions are unable keep up with the pace of Continue reading

Huawei’s possible lawsuit, ransomware readiness, old malware resurfaces | TECH(feed)

The ongoing battle between the U.S. and Huawei could soon go to court as Huawei reportedly prepares to sue the U.S. government. Plus, 2019 will see ride sharing companies going public… but which will be first? And as a decade-old malware resurfaces in enterprise networks, a report questions if the world is ready for the next large-scale ransomware attack.

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