Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 1st, 2019

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10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? (Michael Wittig)

 

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  • 1.3 billion: npm package downloads per day; 20: honeybee communication signals used to coordinate thousands of workers; 71: average global life expectancy; 120K: max inflight SQS messages; 80%: shared code between iOS, Android, the web; 1 TB: microSD card; 20%: increase in value wind energy using ML; 64%: respondents cite optimizing cloud spend as the topvinitiative; 250: drones augmenting small military units; 35,880: record robots shipped to North American companies; 50K: aerial photos of the UK; 119%: increase in demand for AI talent; 18TB: MAMR hard drive; $20 million: Pinterest paid more than expected for AWS; 100,000: MySQL connections; 19%: all requests come from Bots, APIs, and search engine crawlers; 

  • Quotable Quotes:

Connecting RasPBX via SIP Trunk

The previous tutorial has covered RasPBX installation on Raspberry Pi 3 board. At the end of the tutorial we have tested local calls between chan_sip extensions 1010 and 1020 that are registered to RasPBX. This time we will go further and connect RasPBX with another FreePBX VOIP system via PJSIP trunk. The FreePBX is running on VirtualBox and it is in version 14 with Asterisk 13. As the last step of the tutorial, we will test VOIP calls  between RasPBX with FreePBX that are interconnected by PJSIP trunk.

As we have mentioned, a complete RasPBX and Zoiper softphones installation and configuration is covered in a previous tutorial (except the SIP trunk).  Also, the tutorial does not cover installation of FreePBX on VirtualBox VM. So far, our inventory contains RasPBX and FreePBX with the following components.

RasPBX - Asterisk on Raspberry PI board:
- Asterisk 13.22.0
- FreeBPX 14.0.3.13
- Zoiper softphone on Ubuntu 18.0.4, IP 172.17.100.2/16, ext. 1010
- Zoiper softphone on Android 5.1, IP 172.17.100.5/16, ext. 1020

FreePBX - Installed  on VirtualBox VM
- Asterisk 13.19.1
- FreeBPX 14.0.3.13
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Deploying Workers with GitHub Actions + Serverless

Deploying Workers with GitHub Actions + Serverless

If you weren’t aware, Cloudflare Workers, our serverless programming platform, allows you to deploy code onto our 165 data centers around the world.

Want to automatically deploy Workers directly from a GitHub repository? Now you can with our official GitHub Action. This Action is an extension of our existing integration with the Serverless Framework. It runs in a containerized GitHub environment and automatically deploys your Worker to Cloudflare. We chose to utilize the Serverless Framework within our GitHub Action to raise awareness of their awesome work and to enable even more serverless applications to be built with Cloudflare Workers. This Action can be used to deploy individual Worker scripts as well; the Serverless Framework is being used in the background as the deployment mechanism.

Before going into the details, we’ll quickly go over what GitHub Actions are.

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions allow you to trigger commands in reaction to GitHub events. These commands run in containers and can receive environment variables. Actions could trigger build, test, or deployment commands across a variety of providers. They can also be linked and run sequentially (i.e. ‘if the build passes, deploy the app’). Similar to many CI/CD tools, these commands run Continue reading

The Open Compute Project is quickly gaining ground

Eight years ago, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (OCP), an open-source hardware initiative to design the most energy-efficient server gear for massive, hyperscale data centers. The promise was flexibility of hardware and software and designs for greater power efficiency.Very quickly, Intel, Rackspace, Goldman Sachs and Sun Microsystems' co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim joined with Facebook to launch the OCP project, with Microsoft joining in 2014.The project has hummed along quietly with no sales figures until now, thanks to supply chain market research specialists IHS Markit. It surveyed both Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace, as founding partners, and looked at sales to customers beyond those three.To read this article in full, please click here

The Open Compute Project is quickly gaining ground

Eight years ago, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (OCP), an open-source hardware initiative to design the most energy-efficient server gear for massive, hyperscale data centers. The promise was flexibility of hardware and software and designs for greater power efficiency.Very quickly, Intel, Rackspace, Goldman Sachs and Sun Microsystems' co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim joined with Facebook to launch the OCP project, with Microsoft joining in 2014.The project has hummed along quietly with no sales figures until now, thanks to supply chain market research specialists IHS Markit. It surveyed both Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace, as founding partners, and looked at sales to customers beyond those three.To read this article in full, please click here

Technology Short Take 111

Welcome to Technology Short Take #111! I’m a couple weeks late on this one; wanted to publish it earlier but work has been keeping me busy (lots and lots of interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies out there!). In any event, here you are—I hope you find something useful for you!

Networking

Servers/Hardware

New Firewall Tab and Analytics

New Firewall Tab and Analytics

At Cloudflare, one of our top priorities is to make our products and services intuitive so that we can enable customers to accelerate and protect their Internet properties. We're excited to launch two improvements designed to make our Firewall easier to use and more accessible, and helping our customers better manage and visualize their threat-related data.

New Firewall Tabs for ease of access

We have re-organised our features into meaningful pages: Events, Firewall Rules, Managed Rules, Tools, and Settings. Our customers will see an Overview tab, which contains our new Firewall Analytics, detailed below.

New Firewall Tab and Analytics

All the features you know and love are still available, and can be found in one of the four new tabs. Here is a breakdown of their new locations.

Feature New Location
Firewall Event Log Events (Overview for Enterprise only)
Firewall Rules Firewall Rules
Web Application Firewall Managed Ruleset
IP Access Rules (IP Firewall Tools
Rate Limiting Tools
User Agent Blocking Tools
Zone Lockdown Tools
Browser Integrity Check Settings
Challenge Passage Settings
Privacy Pass Settings
Security Level Settings

If the new sub navigation has not appeared, you may need to re-login to the dashboard or clear your browser’s cookies.

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Smart NICs and Related Linux Kernel Infrastructure

A while ago we did a podcast with Luke Gorrie in which he explained why he’d love to have simple, dumb, and easy-to-work-with Ethernet NICs. What about the other side of the coin – smart NICs with their own CPU, RAM and operating system? Do they make sense, when and why would you use them, and how would you integrate them with Linux kernel?

We discussed these challenges with Or Gerlitz (Mellanox), Andy Gospodarek (Broadcom) and Jiri Pirko (Mellanox) in Episode 99 of Software Gone Wild.

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Large scale GAN training for high fidelity natural image synthesis

Large scale GAN training for high fidelity natural image synthesis Brock et al., ICLR’19

Ian Goodfellow’s tweets showing x years of progress on GAN image generation really bring home how fast things are improving. For example, here’s 4.5 years worth of progress on face generation:

And here we have just two years of progress on class-conditional image generation:

In the case of the faces, that’s a GAN trained just to generate images of faces. The class-conditional GANs are a single network trained to generate images of lots of different object classes. In addition to feeding it some noise (random input), you also feed the generator network the class of image you’d like it to generate (condition it).

I was drawn to this paper to try and find out what’s behind the stunning rate of progress. The large-scale GANs (can I say LS-GAN?) trained here set a new state-of-the-art in class-conditional image synthesis. Here are some images generated at 512×512 resolution.

The class-conditional problem is of course much harder than the single image class problem, so we should expect the images to be not quite so stunning as the pictures of faces. In fact, using a measure called Continue reading

Introducing IPv6 in NSX-T Data Center 2.4

With the latest release for VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4, we announced the support for IPv6. Since the advent of IPv4 address space exhaustion, IPv6 adoption has continued to increase around the world. A quick look at the Google IPv6 adoption statistics proves the fact that IPv6 adoption is ramping up. With the advances in IoT space and explosion in number of endpoints (mobile devices), this adoption will continue to grow. IPv6 increases the number of network address bits from its predecessor IPv4 from 32 to 128 bits, providing more than enough globally unique IP addresses for global end-to-end reachability. Several government agencies mandate use of IPv6. In addition to that, IPv6 also provides operational simplification.

NSX-T Data Center 2.4 release introduces the dual stack support for the interfaces on a logical router (now referred as Gateway). You can now leverage all the goodness of distributed routing or distributed firewall in a single tier topology or multi-tiered topology. If you are wondering what dual stack is; it is the capability of a device that can simultaneously originate and understand both IPv4 and IPv6 packets. In this blog, I will discuss the IPv6 features that are made generally available Continue reading

Cisco warns a critical patch is needed for a remote access firewall, VPN and router

Cisco is warning organizations with remote users that have deployed a particular Cisco wireless firewall, VPN and router to patch a critical vulnerability in each that could let attackers break into the network.The vulnerability, which has an impact rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System lets a potential attacker send malicious HTTP requests to a targeted device. A successful exploit could let the attacker execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system of the affected device as a high-privilege user, Cisco stated. More about edge networking How edge networking and IoT will reshape data centers Edge computing best practices How edge computing can help secure the IoT The vulnerability is in the web-based management interface of three products: Cisco’s RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router and RV215W Wireless-N VPN Router. All three products are positioned as remote-access communications and security devices.To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco warns a critical patch is needed for a remote access firewall, VPN and router

Cisco is warning organizations with remote users that have deployed a particular Cisco wireless firewall, VPN and router to patch a critical vulnerability in each that could let attackers break into the network.The vulnerability, which has an impact rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System lets a potential attacker send malicious HTTP requests to a targeted device. A successful exploit could let the attacker execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system of the affected device as a high-privilege user, Cisco stated. More about edge networking How edge networking and IoT will reshape data centers Edge computing best practices How edge computing can help secure the IoT The vulnerability is in the web-based management interface of three products: Cisco’s RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router and RV215W Wireless-N VPN Router. All three products are positioned as remote-access communications and security devices.To read this article in full, please click here

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