Worth Reading: The Fragile Engineers
Ethan Banks wrote an awesome blog post on the characteristics of fragile engineers (most of them probably being expert beginners). I can’t help but ponder how often I behave like one…
Announcing the DockerCon EU 2018 Sessions
DockerCon EU 2018 sessions focus on how Docker works for you. From the latest in Docker technology, to how-tos for your developer and IT infrastructure and operations team, to customer stories on how they are transforming their business with Docker, this year’s program was revamped based on audience feedback. The result – we’ve doubled your favorite content! That’s right, we’ve expanded our popular Using Docker track into two customized tracks for those that are hands on with Docker technology on a daily basis – Using Docker for Developers and Using Docker for IT Infrastructure and Operations.
DockerCon is for Teams
DockerCon is better with friends and colleagues. In Barcelona we are introducing tracks specifically dedicated to developers and IT Infrastructure and Operations professionals. Combined with hands-on learning opportunities with Official Training, Workshops and Labs, there is no shortage of ways to level up on how to work with containers every day. So grab your colleagues and register together to take advantage of our DockerCon for Teams offer: Teams of 4 or more get 10% off their registration and 10 or more get 20% off.
Using Docker for Developers
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CloudHealth Founder Talks VMware Acquisition, Cloud’s Next Phase
CloudHealth CTO and co-founder Joe Kinsella says VMware plans to target managed service providers with its new multi-cloud management product line.
Broadcom Banks on WiFi to Storm 5G and IoT Markets
The company views WiFi as instrumental in providing the necessary in-building coverage and capacity for 5G deployments.
Innovium Downplays Chip Programmability, Stresses PAM4
Innovium considers switch chip programmability to be relevant for niche applications and as an insurance policy for future needs.
Zabbix Debuts Latest Version of Its Open Source Monitoring Software
Zabbix began as a hobby project, but evolved into a network monitoring software for system administrators to monitor IT infrastructure that has a user base of 300,000 across 75 countries.
Weekly Wrap Podcast: AT&T Contributes White Box Router Spec to OCP
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for October 5, 2018. AT&T contributed its white box router specifications to the Open Compute Project.
Leave your VPN and cURL secure APIs with Cloudflare Access
We built Access to solve a problem here at Cloudflare: our VPN. Our team members hated the slowness and inconvenience of VPN but, that wasn’t the issue we needed to solve. The security risks posed by a VPN required a better solution.
VPNs punch holes in the network perimeter. Once inside, individuals can access everything. This can include critically sensitive content like private keys, cryptographic salts, and log files. Cloudflare is a security company; this situation was unacceptable. We need a better method that gives every application control over precisely who is allowed to reach it.
Access meets that need. We started by moving our browser-based applications behind Access. Team members could connect to applications faster, from anywhere, while we improved the security of the entire organization. However, we weren’t yet ready to turn off our VPN as some tasks are better done through a command line. We cannot #EndTheVPN without replacing all of its use cases. Reaching a server from the command line required us to fall back to our VPN.
Today, we’re releasing a beta command line tool to help your team, and ours. Before we started using this feature at Cloudflare, curling a server required me to Continue reading
Bloomberg China Chip-Hack Controversy Highlights Fake News, National Security Fears
By now the story and resulting controversy is as much about media credibility as it is about cyber — and national — security.
Deep Learning Just Dipped into Exascale Territory
Editors Note: We are arranging interviews with leads on both the hardware and software side of this story and will update it with more information throughout the day. …
Deep Learning Just Dipped into Exascale Territory was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Why Cybersecurity Training Must Become a Priority
Because the threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly, organizations are having a hard time keeping pace with the evolving cybersecurity skills required to manage their complex environments.
Weekly Show 410: Broadcast Media Using IP Networks
On today’s Packet Pushers Weekly Show, we discuss how the broadcast media industry leverages IP networks, the initiatives behind the standards and protocols, and why it all matters to data networking professionals.
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Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform
It is safe to say that a little more than a decade ago, when the clone of Google’s MapReduce and Google File System distributed storage and computing platform was cloned at Yahoo and offered up to the world as a way to transform the nature of data analytics at scale, that we all had much higher hopes for the emergence of platforms centered around Hadoop that would change enterprise, not just webscale, computing. …
Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Gravitational Draws Kubernetes Into Its Secure Credential Sphere
The update allows for the management of glass of credentials using both Kubernetes and secure socket shell for multiple infrastructure environments.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — October 5, 2018
Dell Technologies applies to list shares on NYSE; AT&T names new preliminary 5G markets; Google launches tools for its Kubernetes Engine.
MEF18 to Host 20 Proof of Concept Demonstrations Featuring 50 Service and Technology Solution Providers
MEF is pleased to announce the titles of nearly 20 Proof of Concept (PoC) Showcase demonstrations that will be presented at the MEF18 global networking event.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018
Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time:
Halloween is early. Do you know what's hiding inside your computer? Probably not. (bloomberg)
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- 127k: lines of code in first version of Photoshop; $15: Amazon's new minimum wage; 100,000: botnet hijacks Brazilian bank traffic; 3,000: miles per gallon efficiency of a bike; 1 billion: Reddit video views per month; 3: imposters found using face rekognition software; 24%: run their cloud database using RDS, DynamoDB, etc; 250+: decentralized exchanges in the world today; $9 billion: Apple charge to make Google default iOS search; $1.63B: EU fine for Facebook breach; 9 million: broken Wikipedia links rescued by Internet Archive; 1 million: people who rely on gig work; 6,531,230,326: Duck Duck Go queries;
- Quotable Quotes:
- DEF CON: A voting tabulator that is currently used in 23 states is vulnerable to Continue reading