A lot of money and time is being thrown at quantum computing by vendors, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel, and there is the normal competitiveness between the United States and China and Europe as well as work in Japan. …
Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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I recently tweeted…
I’ve become okay with only having so much time in my schedule. Would adding this { new | random | unexpected } thing to the mix stress me out? Yes? Then I can’t do it. Have to leave some space. Have to execute well on the things already on the list.
I grabbed a couple of replies that especially impacted me.
The hard part for me is deciding when to cut things loose in order to make room for new things that are more valuable. Sometimes it’s natural, like a job transition, but most of the time it’s not. I’d rather make intentional choices, not wait until I’m burned out. Of course, often the major problem with intentionally stopping a project is the social cost. Disappointing people is expensive for multiple reasons. And it’s very difficult to weigh that against the benefit of doing something new.
Benson crammed a whole lot Continue reading
This piece was originally published in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure Magazine, a publication about the human side of working in technology. HIM is sent every other week or so to Packet Pushers Ignition members. Sign up for free.
I recently tweeted…
I’ve become okay with only having so much time in my schedule. Would adding this { new | random | unexpected } thing to the mix stress me out? Yes? Then I can’t do it. Have to leave some space. Have to execute well on the things already on the list.
I grabbed a couple of replies that especially impacted me.
The hard part for me is deciding when to cut things loose in order to make room for new things that are more valuable. Sometimes it’s natural, like a job transition, but most of the time it’s not. I’d rather make intentional choices, not wait until I’m burned out. Of course, often the major problem with intentionally stopping a project is the social cost. Disappointing people is expensive for multiple reasons. And it’s very difficult to weigh that against the benefit of doing something new.
Benson crammed a whole lot Continue reading
In a continuation of our MPLS deep-dive series, Nick Russo, Russ White, Jordan Martin, and Eyvonne Sharp return to discuss some of the operational considerations when using MPLS VPNs.
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Show Notes:
There s a lot to be said about consuming technology remotely. Heck, the cloud is just that – someone else stands up infrastructure and services, and you consume them.
But what about for the desktop environment, which for many is their main working environment and something of a tug-of-war when it comes to ownership, management, and administration?
In today s episode of the Datanauts, join us as we de-mystify the exotic world of End User Compute, or EUC.
Our guest is Sean Massey, Senior Technical Architect at AHEAD. You can follow him on Twitter at seanpmassey and check out his blog at TheVirtualHorizon.com.
We discuss what EUC encompasses, including technologies such as VDI as well as mobile devices, laptops, and desktops. We also look at how SaaS and cloud apps affect end users and application delivery, and explore the impact of EUC/VDI on the data center.
Carl Stalhood – Filling gaps in EUC vendor documentation
The Virtual Horizon – Sean Massey’s blog
The post Datanauts 140: Exploring End User Compute appeared first on Packet Pushers.
The Enhancing IoT Security project hosted its second multistakeholder event on June 21, 2018. This meeting served as an opportunity for new participants to join the conversations and for participants of the first meeting to continue working toward consensus on IoT security norms that would empower consumers and ensure network resiliency. A group of 30 individuals met in Ottawa, with another 16 joining virtually, to prioritize the action items from the last meeting and establish working groups that will collaborate and conduct further research for each item. Participants included representatives from private sector companies, public interest groups, the technical community, academia, and government agencies, and each offered unique and valuable insights to the project. Andrew Sullivan, Fellow at Oracle/Dyn, facilitated this discussion and the creation of the working groups.
The meeting began with a discussion about the ten outputs from the first multistakeholder event. The group agreed that it should prioritize work on a few outputs to begin and then expand the projects scope as necessary. Participants decided to focus on the following three issue areas:
Participants then identified what work would need to be accomplished for each action item and established working Continue reading
Cloudflare Workers allows you to quickly deploy Javascript code to our 150+ data centers around the world and execute very close to your end-user. The edit/compile/debug story is already pretty amazing using the Workers IDE with integrated Chrome Dev Tools. However, for those hankering for some Typescript and an IDE with static analysis, autocomplete and that jazz, follow along to see one way to set up a Typescript project with Webstorm and npm run upload your code straight to the edge.
My environment looks like this:
You'll also need a Cloudflare domain and to activate Workers on it.
I'll be using cryptoserviceworker.com
I'll also use Yeoman to build our initial scaffolding. Install it with npm install yo -g
Let's start with a minimal node app with a "hello world" class and a test.
mkdir cryptoserviceworker && cd cryptoserviceworker
npm install generator-node-typescript -g
yo node-typescript
That generator creates the following directory structure:
drwxr-xr-x 16 steve staff 512 Jun 18 20:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 steve staff 320 Jun 18 20:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve staff 197 Jun 18 20:40 .editorconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve staff Continue reading
Cavium, Nutanix, and Equinix are all customers using the security company’s predictive breach-risk platform.
Nuclear fusion, the opportunity to harness the power of the stars, has been a dream of humanity from around the time of the Manhattan Project. …
Cracking Nuclear Fusion With Supercomputers And Smart Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Avoid falling for these three common misconceptions when incorporating DevOps practices into network operations.
Secure coding practices in Java: challenges and vulnerabilities Meng et al., ICSE’18
TL;DR : don’t trust everything you read on Stack Overflow.
Meng et al. conduct a study of Stack Overflow posts relating to secure coding practices in Java to find out the hot topics, what people struggle with, and whether or not the accepted answers are actually following security best practices.
We conducted an empirical study on Stack Overflow posts, aiming to understand developer’s concerns on Java secure coding, their programming obstacles, and insecure coding practices. We observed a wide adoption of the authentication and authorization features provided by Spring Security — a third-party framework designed to secure enterprise applications…
Well, how could I resist reading that! (Some readers may know that I was for many years the CTO of SpringSource). Spring Security does come in for some flak in this paper for the high volume of questions that are asked relating to it. There’s no calibration though for underlying popularity. One of the reasons there are a lot of questions, I posit, is that there are an awful lot of users of Spring Security. Spring Boot applications will use Spring Security, and Spring Boot has been growing Continue reading
It has been difficult for the supercomputing community to watch the tools they have honed over many years get snatched up by a more commercially-oriented community like AI and popularized. …
The Supercomputing of 2025 Looks Much Like AI Today was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Network operators that are transitioning to 5G need to manage a significantly greater number of switching routes compared to data center operators.
The relationship between the HPC and AI communities is not unlike sibling rivalry; both come from the same stock computationally speaking but are fundamentally different individuals. …
HPC Finding Footing in AI Present was written by James Cuff at .