Google’s machine-learning cloud pipeline explained

When Google first told the world about its Tensor Processing Unit, the strategy behind it seemed clear enough: Speed machine learning at scale by throwing custom hardware at the problem. Use commodity GPUs to train machine-learning models; use custom TPUs to deploy those trained models.The new generation of Google’s TPUs is designed to handle both of those duties, training and deploying, on the same chip. That new generation is also faster, both on its own and when scaled out with others in what’s called a “TPU pod.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft takes the Build show on the road

Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference is becoming a must-see for developers, given the huge amounts of information and technical deep dives available over the three days of the show. However, the show has been biased toward American developers, since it’s been held in only U.S. west coast cities: Seattle, before that San Francisco, and originally in Anaheim, California. So, recognizing some folks can’t make the trip, Microsoft is bringing the show to them on a global tour this June. It’s rather short notice for some folks. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

BrandPost: Leverage the Agility of the Overlay WAN to Design the Right Network

When it comes to WAN architecture, there has been a debate that has raged on for decades.  Hub-and-spoke or fully distributed mesh, which is better?Hub-and-spoke networks are certainly simpler to design and manage, but the downside is that all branch traffic needs to be backhauled through a central location. Consider a U.S.-based company with a branch office in Japan where a user is trying to access a local website. The traffic would need to go from the branch, back to the United States, back to Japan, and then back to the United States, only to be sent off to Japan yet again. This clearly represents an enormous waste of bandwidth and resource, not to mention impaired user productivity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ansible + Windows Webinar Q&A

Windows - Webinar Q&A

The Ansible Ask an Expert webinar series continues to be one of the most popular series we’ve ever hosted. During these Q&A style webinars, our Ansible experts take questions from the audience about specific topics.

In April, we covered Ask an Expert: Windows. We’ve compiled the questions and answers below for your reference.

Interested in more? Our next Ask an Expert: Windows webinar is scheduled for August 10th at 2PM EDT. Register here.


Q: Any update on support for Windows machine as the control machine? This would make a lot of sense for Windows-only administrators who don't use Linux all the time.

A: There are several technical limitations that prevent the Ansible controller from running as a native Win32 application. However, Ansible does work under the new Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10. While we don't officially support it for production workloads (nor does Microsoft), it does work quite well for developing and testing Ansible content.

Q: Is it possible to manage MySQL under Windows with Ansible?

A: Yes, the MySQL modules can manage Windows-hosted MySQL the same way as Linux-hosted MySQL. The modules themselves still need to actually run on a Linux/Mac host, but they're usually run from Continue reading

Write apps with zero code using Microsoft Windows Template Studio

For some reason, Microsoft has unleashed a flood of developer news after its Build developers conference. One of them is the announcement of the new Windows Template Studio, an evolution of Windows App Studio it launched a few years back for building Windows Universal Apps without actually writing code. Universal Windows Platform (UWP), or universal apps, is an ongoing project from Microsoft to develop software once that can run on a variety of devices running Windows, from PCs to tablets and phones and the Xbox console. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Bartering for privacy

If data is the new currency then why isn’t exchanging data for use of a service a barter transaction? If a doctor exchanges medical services for chickens, for example, that is a taxable event at fair market value. It’s a barter arrangement. A free service that sells user data is similarly bartering the service for data, otherwise said service would not be offered. —High Scalability

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Singularity is the Hinge To Swing HPC Cloud Adoption

For almost a decade now, the cloud has been pitched as a cost-effective way to bring supercomputing out of the queue and into public IaaS or HPC on-demand environments. While there are certainly many use cases to prove that tightly-coupled problems can still work in the cloud despite latency hits (among other issues), application portability is one sticking point.

For instance, let’s say you have developed a financial modeling application on an HPC on demand service to prove that the model works so you can make the case for purchasing a large cluster to run it at scale on-prem. This …

Singularity is the Hinge To Swing HPC Cloud Adoption was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

On the ‘net: A New Routing Stack Comes to Town

While Quagga has always been the mainstay of the open source routing world, but this “granddaddy of open source routing stacks” has always suffered from a shallowness of community participation, a lack of a solid legal framework, and—probably more than anything else—a lack of automated and regular integration testing. In fact, the lack of a widely supported, thoroughly tested, and strongly founded open source routing stack has hindered the disaggregation and white box worlds for a long while. —ECI

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How to maintain data oversight to avoid ‘shadow data’

Data at riskImage by George HodanBefore his retirement, an employee of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) uploaded more than 10,000 OCC records onto two removable thumb drives. He retired in November 2015; the agency didn’t discover the breach until the following September. That left almost a year between breach and detection. The OCC was not able to recover the thumb drives.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to maintain data oversight to avoid ‘shadow data’

Data at riskImage by George HodanBefore his retirement, an employee of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) uploaded more than 10,000 OCC records onto two removable thumb drives. He retired in November 2015; the agency didn’t discover the breach until the following September. That left almost a year between breach and detection. The OCC was not able to recover the thumb drives.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Yes, you still need endpoint malware protection

There has been a steady stream of reports and claims lately that many of us no longer need endpoint security, that antivirus (AV) programs on our PCs are worthless.Gizmodo flat out said that you really don't need an antivirus app anymore, arguing that Windows 10 and the browsers have tightened up security to the point that they adequately protect end users. Windows Central asked the same question, but determined that more protection is better than less.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Yes, you still need endpoint malware protection

There has been a steady stream of reports and claims lately that many of us no longer need endpoint security, that antivirus (AV) programs on our PCs are worthless.Gizmodo flat out said that you really don't need an antivirus app anymore, arguing that Windows 10 and the browsers have tightened up security to the point that they adequately protect end users. Windows Central asked the same question, but determined that more protection is better than less.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

PQ Show 116: Practical YANG For Network Automation

Todays Priority Queue explores network modeling and programmability. Our guest Michael Kashin has been working with YANG models, python, and a variety of supporting tools. We discuss how to work with network models and how they tie to the future of network configuration. The post PQ Show 116: Practical YANG For Network Automation appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Developing a Spring Boot app on Docker: The AtSea Demo App

This is the first of a series of blog posts that demonstrates using Docker to develop a typical web application and deploying it in production. For DockerCon 2017, we wanted to build a new demo application that would demonstrate the flexibility of using Docker in development as well as showcase the features of Docker in a production environment. The result was the AtSea Shop, a storefront application that can be deployed on different operating systems and can be customized to both your enterprise development and operational environment.

A Hybrid Architecture

The team decided on a few ground rules. First, we wanted to use modern components commonly used in enterprise applications. We decided to build a Java application using the Spring Boot framework. The web client is a javascript application written using React as a framework.  Second, the application should be able to use any relational database and that it could be deployed on a Linux or Windows environment or cluster. Finally, the team wanted to show the process from development to deployment including building the application, implementing security, and deploying the application.

Docker Demo App

The application combines a typical Java n-tier architecture that uses Spring Boot’s web MVC framework for the REST API Continue reading

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