AWS Adds EC2 Compute Processing to Its Snowball Edge Device
By using Amazon compute EC2 instances on their Snowball Edge devices, customers can enable those devices to function as a mobile data center.
Corelight and Databricks Combine Forces for Threat Detection, Remediation, and Analytics
Both Corelight and Databricks are based on open source technologies — Corelight on Bro and Databricks on Apache Spark. While the open source technologies have been combined, this is the first time the companies' commercial versions of software will integrate.
Thoughts on Impostor Syndrome
How many times, on reading my blog, a book, or watching some video of mine over these many years (the first article I remember writing that was publicly available, many years ago, was the EIGRP white paper on Cisco Online, somewhere in 1997), have you thought—here is an engineer who has it all together, who knows technology in depth and breadth, and who symbolizes everything I think an engineer should be? And yet, how many times have you faced that feeling of self-doubt we call impostor synddome?
I am going to let you in on a little secret. I’m an impostor, too. After all these years, I still feel like I am going to be speaking in front of a crowd, explaining something at a meeting, I am going to hit publish on something, and the entire world is going to “see through the charade,” and realize I’m not all that good of an engineer. That I am an ordinary person, just doing ordinary things.
While I often think about these things, what has led me down the path of thinking about them this week is some reading I’ve been doing for a PhD seminar about human nature, work Continue reading
Orange Plucks Basefarm Cloud Biz for $410 Million
The deal will add data management, big data, and multi-cloud support to Orange Business Services. It also expands its footprint across Europe.
When Does Kubernetes Become Invisible And Ubiquitous?
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
When Does Kubernetes Become Invisible And Ubiquitous? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Google Building Trans-Atlantic Subsea Cable
Cloud giant expands network capacity with private subsea cable called Dunant, its latest submarine cable investment.
The Rise of Lifecycle Service Orchestration
This SDxCentral eBook looks at how LSO is evolving and why it will play an important part in the management and control of network services across different network domains.
The Pursuit of Inspired Leadership
At Arista Networks, great technology and leadership inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent. It’s an ongoing journey to create the right leaders and disruptive technology for market transitions and Arista’s evolution. Today I digress a bit, as I was reading a 2017 Harvard Business Review article on the four key traits identified for successful CEOs. So much of it resonated with me with respect to the Arista way and our company culture. Let’s review how these traits apply to a fast-paced technology company like Arista.
The Pursuit of Inspired Leadership
At Arista Networks, great technology and leadership inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent. It’s an ongoing journey to create the right leaders and disruptive technology for market transitions and Arista’s evolution. Today I digress a bit, as I was reading a 2017 Harvard Business Review article on the four key traits identified for successful CEOs. So much of it resonated with me with respect to the Arista way and our company culture. Let’s review how these traits apply to a fast-paced technology company like Arista.
Dynamic Kubernetes Client for Ansible
tl;dr
We condensed the Python Kubernetes/OpenShift client from 400,000 lines of code to 500, while adding features and closing nearly all known bugs. The new Kubernetes modules shipping in Ansible 2.6 support all resources the Kubernetes server supports, and fix nearly all the bugs that were in the 2.5 k8s_raw and openshift_raw modules. If you want to control your Kubernetes infrastructure with Ansible, now is a very good time to give it a try.
Previous Approaches
For anyone who has not followed the process of adding Kubernetes support to Ansible, this is actually our third attempt. With this iteration, we have finally worked out a lot of the kinks that made the modules difficult to use. Here’s a brief synopsis of the history of the project:
Generated client, generated modules
Our first iteration was backed by a generated OpenShift Python client, based on the existing Kubernetes Python client. This Python client ingested the OpenAPI spec for the OpenShift/Kubernetes API and generated one or more modules per resource type. Due to the size of the API, this resulted in ~400,000 lines of generated code.
The Ansible Kubernetes modules were in turn generated from the generated client, so for Continue reading
Insider Threat Management Startup ObserveIT Closes $33M Series B
One-quarter of all security incidents involve insiders, according to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
Innovative Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Communities
In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted its first Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event brought together over 200 Indigenous community members to talk about Internet access solutions, and the importance of connectivity for socioeconomic, health, community empowerment, education, and cultural and language preservation.
It was an incredible two days that resulted in new, meaningful relationships, partnerships, and opportunities for all those present. But the work isn’t done yet.
Connectivity in Indigenous communities continues to lag far behind non-Indigenous areas. Low speeds or non-existent service, high costs, and data caps plague many communities. In some Arctic communities in Canada, it is often cheaper and faster to mail a USB drive south, upload data, and mail it back North than it is to download the content on the slow and expensive services available.
To continue the conversation that was started in Santa Fe, the Internet Society will hold the second Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada on October 11-12. This event will bring together Indigenous community leaders, technical experts, researchers, policy makers, and service providers to address the unique connectivity issues Alaska Native, American Indian, Inuit, First Nation, and Métis communities face and how they Continue reading
Proxying traffic to Report URI with Cloudflare Workers
The following is a guest post by Scott Helme, a Security Researcher, international speaker, and blogger. He's also the founder of the popular securityheaders.com and report-uri.com, free tools to help people deploy better security.
With the continued growth of Report URI we're seeing a larger and larger variety of sites use the service. With that diversity comes additional requirements that need to be met, some of them simple and some of them less so. Here's a quick look at those challenges and how they can be solved easily with a Cloudflare Worker. Continue reading