Weekend Reads 120117

There’s an “automation meteor” headed right at us, according to financial adviser and Reformed Broker blogger Josh Brown, who used this troubling “chart o’ the day” from Wharton to show just “how quickly things have changed” over the past decade. And how they’re going to keep on changing. —Shawn Langlois @ MarketWatchThere’s an “automation meteor” headed right at us, according to financial adviser and Reformed Broker blogger Josh Brown, who used this troubling “chart o’ the day” from Wharton to show just “how quickly things have changed” over the past decade. And how they’re going to keep on changing. —Shawn Langlois @ MarketWatch

Andrew Ng, formerly the head of AI for Chinese search giant Baidu and, before that, creator of Google’s deep-learning Brain project, knows as well as anyone that artificial intelligence is coming for plenty of jobs. And many of us don’t even know it. —Rachel Metz @ MIT Technology Review

Many historians believe that one of the main reasons why the U.S. won the Cold War was its decisive lead over the Soviet Union in computer and telecommunications technology, which, by the 1980s, made it virtually impossible for the Soviets to compete, either economically or militarily. Continue reading

Enterprise Network on GNS3 – Part 4 – Cisco ASAv-I

This is the fourth from the series of the articles that discuss configuration of the enterprise network. The article explains configuration of the device ASAv-I. The device is a Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) version 9.6(1) installed on qcow2 Qemu disk. The ASAv-I provides traffic filtering and inspection services for the campus network and Data Center (DC). It also connects the campus network and DC to the vIOS-EDGE-I edge router.

Picture 1 -  ASAv-I,  Campus, DC and  Edge Connection

Note: The recommended RAM size for ASAv instance is 2048 MB. In order to lower memory consumption,  GNS3 is configured to assign 1536 MB to the ASAv.

Note: The interface eth0 on the ASAv-I is referred as the interface Management0/0 in ASAv configuration. The interface eth0  is not connected as we use the inside interfaces for management instead. The first connected interface is then the interface eth1 that is referred as the interface GigabitEthernet0/0 in ASAv CLI. Similarly, the second connected interface eth2 is referred as the GigabitEthernet0/1 and so on.

Note: Here is the configuration file of vASA-I.

ASAv-I Configuration

Once we start ASAv, the Qemu window is launched. However we want to use GNS3 Continue reading

Does Juniper Need To Be Purchased?

You probably saw the news this week that Nokia was looking to purchase Juniper Networks. You also saw pretty quickly that the news was denied, emphatically. It was a curious few hours when the network world was buzzing about the potential to see Juniper snapped up into a somewhat larger organization. There was also talk of product overlap and other kinds of less exciting but very necessary discussions during mergers like this. Which leads me to a great thought exercise: Does Juniper Need To Be Purchased?

Sins of The Father

More than any other networking company I know of, Juniper has paid the price for trying to break out of their mold. When you think Juniper, most networking professionals will tell you about their core routing capabilities. They’ll tell you how Juniper has a great line of carrier and enterprise switches. And, if by some chance, you find yourself talking to a security person, you’ll probably hear a lot about the SRX Firewall line. Forward thinking people may even tell you about their automation ideas and their charge into the world of software defined things.

Would you hear about their groundbreaking work with Puppet from 2013? How about their wireless Continue reading

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 1st, 2017

Hey, it's HighScalability time: 

  Isn't this all of software? @thomasfuchs: Here we see a group of JavaScript engineers implementing a method that adds two numbers

 

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  • 82%: chance a file on GitHub is a duplicate; 11: new AWS regions; 42%: AWS yearly growth; 1,100: new AWS services in 2017; 300%: year of year growth in Lambda; 00000000: code to launch a Minuteman missile; 100 megawatts in 100 days: biggest battery in the world; 40: months in prison for VW engineer; 3,000 cores: Raspberry Pi cluster; 11: lost cities found by building a database from 4,000-year-old clay tablets; 1.25 million: Riot Games builds per year; 41.78: miles walked at reinvent; 

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @gigastacey: This FCC is going to destroy net neutrality, strangle competition in media, let wireline providers off the hook for replacing copper with fiber or an equivalent to copper AND kill broadband access for the poor. This is an unprecedented attack on consumers.
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Worth Reading: Open Source Supply Chain

Diversity and inclusivity in the technology industry—and in open source communities more specifically—have received a lot of coverage, both on Opensource.com and elsewhere. One approach to the issue foregrounds arguments about concepts that are more abstract—like human decency, for example. But the “supply chain” metaphor works, too. And it can be an effective argument for championing greater inclusivity in our open organizations, especially when people dismiss arguments based on appeals to abstract concepts. —Ben Cotton @ Open Source

The Systems of the Future Will Be Conversational

It’d be difficult to downplay the impact Amazon Web Services has had on the computing industry over the past decade. Since launching in 2006, Amazon’s cloud computing division has become the set the pace in the public cloud market, rapidly growing out its capabilities from the first service – Simple Storage Service (S3) – it rolled out to now offering thousands of services that touch on everything from compute instances to databases, storage, application development and emerging technologies like machine learning and data analytics.

The company has become dominant by offering organizations of all sizes a way of simply accessing …

The Systems of the Future Will Be Conversational was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

How Did NETCONF Start on Software Gone Wild

A long while ago Marcel Wiget sent me an interesting email along the lines “I think you should do a Software Gone Wild podcast with Phil Shafer, the granddaddy of NETCONF”

Not surprisingly, as we started discovering the history behind NETCONF we quickly figured out that all the API and automation hype being touted these days is nothing new – some engineers have been doing that stuff for almost 20 years.

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All Of Ethan’s Podcasts And Articles For November 2017

Here’s a catalog of all the media I produced (or helped produce) in November 2017. I’ve included content summaries to motivate you to click. See, that’s coming right at you with how I’m trying to manipulate your behavior. I’m honest like that.

PACKET PUSHERS WEEKLY PODCAST

All Of Ethan’s Podcasts And Articles For November 2017

Here’s a catalog of all the media I produced (or helped produce) in November 2017. I’ve included content summaries to motivate you to click. See, that’s coming right at you with how I’m trying to manipulate your behavior. I’m honest like that.

PACKET PUSHERS WEEKLY PODCAST

Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel

For several years, GPU acceleration matched with Intel Xeon processors were the dominating news items in hardware at the annual Supercomputing Conference. However, this year that trend shifted in earnest, with a major coming-out party for ARM servers in HPC and more attention than ever paid to FPGAs as potential accelerators for future exascale systems.

The SC series held two days of lightening-round presentations on the state of FPGAs for future supercomputers, with insight from both academia, vendors, and end users at scale, including Microsoft. To say Microsoft is an FPGA user is a bit of an understatement, however, since …

Reinventing the FPGA Programming Wheel was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Inside Nvidia’s Next-Gen Saturn V AI Cluster

Generally speaking, the world’s largest chip makers have been pretty secretive about the giant supercomputers they use to design and test their devices, although occasionally, Intel and AMD have provided some insight into their clusters.

We have no idea what kind of resources Nvidia has for its EDA systems – we are trying to get some insight into that – but we do know that it has just upgraded a very powerful supercomputer to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence that is also doing double duty on some aspects of its chip design business.

As part of …

Inside Nvidia’s Next-Gen Saturn V AI Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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