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When Blackbird Tech, a notorious patent troll, sued us earlier this year for patent infringement, we discovered quickly that the folks at Blackbird were engaged in what appeared to be the broad and unsubstantiated assertion of patents -- filing about 115 lawsuits in less than 3 years, and have not yet won a single one of those cases on the merits in court. Cloudflare felt an appropriate response would be to review all of Blackbird Tech’s patents, not just the one it asserted against Cloudflare, to determine if they are invalid or should be limited in scope. We enlisted your help in this endeavor by placing a $50,000 bounty on prior art that proves the Blackbird Tech patents are invalid or overbroad, an effort we dubbed Project Jengo.
Since its inception, Project Jengo has doubled in size and provided us with a good amount of high quality prior art submissions. We have received more than 230 submissions so far, and have only just begun to scratch the surface. We have already come across a number of standouts that appear to be strong contenders for invalidating many of the Blackbird Tech patents. This means it is Continue reading
Over the last few days—prompted perhaps by my article with some additional information on my site migration—a few folks in the community have reached out to me to share some resources they thought I might find useful. In turn, I’d like to share them with you, my readers, in the event you might find them useful as well.
This is (clearly and obviously) not a comprehensive list, but here’s what folks have shared with me over the last few days:
s3_website. The main problem I have with this write-up is that it hides too many of the details, preventing (in my opinion) some of the valuable learning that can come from such an effort.I’ll update this Continue reading
The platform supports encryption into Google Cloud and AWS but not into Microsoft Azure.
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It’s part of Cisco’s push to “Merakify” its business.
Starting up a virtual machine (VM) is not an easy task, there are a lot of things going on hidden from the plain sight and studying it alone is a challenging task. The goal of this post is to simplify the process of learning how the oVirt hypervisor works. The concept of the oVirt is illustrated in the process of starting up the VM, which covers everything from top to the bottom.
Disclaimer: I am an engineer working close to the host part of the oVirt, therefore my knowledge of the engine is limited.
Let me start with explaining the main parts oVirt hypervisor architecture. It will help a lot in understanding the overall process of the VM startup flow. Following is the simplified architecture, where I omit auxiliary components and support scripts. This will allow me to focus on the core concept without distractions.
The architecture comprises of three main components: 1) web UI and engine, 2) VDSM, 3) guest agent.
The web UI is where the user makes the first contact with the oVirt hypervisor. The web UI is the main command center of the engine and allows a user to control all aspects and states of Continue reading
Like it or not, operations teams will need to learn how to code.
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One of my readers was wondering about the stability and scalability of large layer-2 domains implemented with VXLAN. He wrote:
If common BUM traffic (e.g. ARP) is being handled/localized by the network (e.g. NSX or ACI), and if we are managing what traffic hosts can send with micro-segmentation style filtering blocking broadcast/multicast, are large layer-2 domains still a recipe for disaster?
There are three major (fundamental) problems with large L2 domains:
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