If you've been considering a memory upgrade for your systems, now might be the time to do it. The lengthy decline of memory prices has nearly stopped, and while that doesn’t mean prices are going to go up just yet, it's likely to happen down the road.DRAM and NAND flash memory makers have had to endure a severe downturn in average selling prices over the past six months, as part of the typical cyclical nature of memory sales. But a new report by technology industry analyst firm TrendForce says price declines for some forms of memory have slowed to almost zero.To read this article in full, please click here
If you've been considering a memory upgrade for your systems, now might be the time to do it. The lengthy decline of memory prices has nearly stopped, and while that doesn’t mean prices are going to go up just yet, it's likely to happen down the road.DRAM and NAND flash memory makers have had to endure a severe downturn in average selling prices over the past six months, as part of the typical cyclical nature of memory sales. But a new report by technology industry analyst firm TrendForce says price declines for some forms of memory have slowed to almost zero.To read this article in full, please click here
Cradlepoint this week shared its strategy to couple 5G wireless with its secure access service edge (SASE) platform to provide wireless WAN and hybrid WAN environments with cloud management and SIM-based security capabilities.The platform builds off Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Exchange 5G SD-WAN and will incorporate zero trust and cloud-based security technology Cradlepoint acquired recently with its acquisition of Ericom. The company plans to roll out the updates in phases over the next 12 months, with its Cellular Intelligence component available now.To read this article in full, please click here
Israeli startup UniFabriX is aiming to give multi-core CPUs the memory and memory bandwidth needed to run compute- and memory-intensive AI and machine-learning workloads.UniFabriX is pitching its Smart Memory Node technology as an alternative to socket-connected DRAM, which restricts memory capacity and bandwidth in CPUs. UniFabriX's technology is based on CXL (Compute Express Link), an industry-supported interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. CXL technology maintains memory coherency between the CPU memory space and memory on attached devices, which allows resource sharing for higher performance, reduced software stack complexity, and lower overall system cost.To read this article in full, please click here
Israeli startup UniFabriX is aiming to give multi-core CPUs the memory and memory bandwidth needed to run compute- and memory-intensive AI and machine-learning workloads.UniFabriX is pitching its Smart Memory Node technology as an alternative to socket-connected DRAM, which restricts memory capacity and bandwidth in CPUs. UniFabriX's technology is based on CXL (Compute Express Link), an industry-supported interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. CXL technology maintains memory coherency between the CPU memory space and memory on attached devices, which allows resource sharing for higher performance, reduced software stack complexity, and lower overall system cost.To read this article in full, please click here
There seem to be two dominant themes in the enumeration of potential perils that face the Internet these days, and oddly enough they seem to me to be opposite in nature.
A Target group routes requests to one or more registered targets. They can be EC2 Instances, IP addresses, Kubernetes Cluster, Lambda Functions etc. Target groups are specified when you create a listener rule. You can also define various health checks and associate them with each target-groups.
What is Geneve, and what is the context with ELB: Generic Network Virtualisation Encapsulation
In the context of Gateway Load Balancer, a flow can be associated with either 5-Tuple or 3-Tuple.A flow can be associated with either a 5-tuple or 3-tuple flow in load balancers.
A 5-tuple flow includes the source IP address, destination IP address, source port, destination port, and protocol number. This is used for TCP, UDP, and SCTP protocols.
A 3-tuple flow includes the source IP address, destination IP address, and protocol number. This is used for ICMP and ICMPv6 protocols.
Gateway Load balancers and their registered virtual appliances use GENEVE protocol to exchange application traffic on port 6081
Global Accelerator — A service that provides static ip addresses with your accelerator. These IP addresses are Anycast from the AWS edge network, meaning the global accelerator diverts your application’s traffic to the nearest region to the client.
Two types of Global Accelerators — Standard Accelerators and Custom Routing accelerators.
Standard Accelerators uses aws global network to route traffic to the optimal regional endpoint based on health, client location and policies that the user configures, increasing availability and decreasing latency to the end users. Standard-accelerator endpoints can be Network Load balancers, Application load balancers from load balancing context. Custom routing accelerators do not support load balancer endpoints as of today.
When using accelerators and Load-balancers, update DNS records so that application traffic uses accelerator end-point, redirecting the traffic to load-balancer endpoints.
CloudFront and AWS-WAF with ELB:
When using an application load balancer in ELB, cloud-front meant to cache the objects can reduce the load on ALBs and improve performance. CF can also protect ALB and internal services from DDOS attacks, as with AWS WAF. But for this to succeed, administrators Continue reading
Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we learned while scaling up Presto to Meta scale, and some advice if you’re interested in running your own queries at scale.
Scaling Presto rapidly to meet growing demands: What challenges did we face?
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What Is Gossip Protocol?
The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]:
maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes)
communication between nodes
The potential solutions to these problems are as follows [1]:
Internal ELB — An internal Load balancer is not exposed to the internet and is deployed in a private subnet. A DNS record gets created, which will have a private-IP address of the load-balancer. It’s worth noting to know DNS records will be publicly resolvable. The main intention is to distribute traffic to EC2 instances. Across availability zones, provided all of them have access to VPCs.
External ELB — Also called an Internet-Facing Load Balancer and deployed in the Public subnet. Similar to Internal ELB, this can also be used to distribute and balance traffic across two availability zones.
High Availability Aspect: ELB (Can be any load-balancing) can distribute traffic across various different targets, including EC2-Instances, Containers, and IP addresses in either a single AZ or multiple AZs within a region.
Health Checks: An additional health check can be included to ensure that the end hos serving the application is healthy. This is typically done through HTTP status codes, with a return value 200 indicating a healthy host. If discrepancies are found during the health check, the ELB can gracefully drain traffic and divert it to another host in the target group. If auto-scaling is set up, it can also auto-scale as needed.
Network Design: Depending on the type of traffic and Application traffic pattern, the load and burst-rate choice of load-balancer will differ.
Various Features — High-Availability, High-Throughput, Health-Checks, Sticky-Sessions, Operational-Monitoring and Logging, Delete-Protection.
TLS Termination — You can also have integrated certificate management and SSL decryption which offloads end-host CPU load and acts as a central Continue reading
To Distribute incoming application traffic across EC2 instances / Containers / IP Addresses and these entities, generally, can be called targets and grouped as Target-Groups.
Another advantage is performing health checks, such as packet-loss or high-latency, and can be integrated with Auto-scaling, hence Elastic.
Depending on the ELB type and its operational requirement, this can further be subdivided into CLB, ALB, GLB, and NLB.
CLB — Classic Load Balancer
– AWS Recommends ALB today instead of CLB – Intended for EC2 instances which are built in EC2-Classic Network – Layer 4 or Layer 7 Load Balancing – Provides SSL Offloading and IPv6 support for Classic Networks
ALB — Application Load Balancer
Works at the 7th Layer of the OSI Model.
Supports applications that run in Containers
Supports Content-based Routing
HTTP/HTTPS, Mobile Apps, Containers in EC2, and Microservices benefit greatly from ALB
Why Elastic Load Balancer?
To Distribute incoming application traffic across EC2 instances / Containers / IP Addresses and these entities, generally, can be called targets and grouped as Target-Groups.
Another advantage is performing health checks, such as packet-loss or high-latency, and can be integrated with Auto-scaling, Continue reading
Note: This requires the purchase of a wireless router which is capable of running a Wireguard package in this case it’s Slate-Plus GL-A1300 and I do not have any affiliate or ads program with them, I simply liked it for its effectiveness and low cost.
The Need :
For one reason many of us want a VPN server which does decent encryption but won’t charge us a lot of money, in some cases, it can be done free of cost and in others for not want us to install a variety of software which messes up with internal client routing and also against some of the IT-Policies, even if it’s a browser-based plugin.
The Choice :
Wireguard: https://www.wireguard.com/ — VPN Software, Software-based encryption, extremely fast and light-weight.
GL-A1300 Slate-Plus — Wireless Router with support for Wireguard which is not a feature in many of the current market routers, had OpenWrt as the installed software.
Features
The GL-A1300 Slate Plus wireless VPN encrypted travel router comes packed with features that will make your life easier while travelling. Here are just a few of the most important:
A few weeks ago, I set up a bird feeder and used it to capture bird images, the classifier itself was not that accurate but was doing a decent job, what I have realised is that not every time we end up with highly accurate on-board edge classification especially while learning how to implement them.
So after a few weeks, there were a lot of images some of them sure enough had birds while some of them were taken in Pitch Dark and am not even sure what made the classifier figure out a birdie in the snapshot from the camera.
Now for me in order to make an Image, I have to rely on a re-classifier doing the job for me, initially, I thought I will write a lambda-based classifier as a learning experiment, but then I thought it was a one-time process every 6 months or so, so I went ahead with a managed service option and in this case, its AWS Rekognition, which is quite amazing.
Content delivery network (CDN) and cloud computing provider Akamai has opened three new internet point of presence (POP) data centers this week, and will open two more later in the quarter, as the company looks to take over a bigger portion of the public cloud market.The three new sites open as of this week are in Paris, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Sites in Seattle and Chennai will follow in the coming months, Akamai said. The expansion is part of the company's push into the public cloud market dominated by incumbents like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, Akamai said.The sites were chosen carefully, according to a statement from Akamai. Washington, D.C., is one of the biggest data center hubs in the world, with Northern Virginia containing upward of half of the major data center capacity in the US. Chicago is a well-situated secondary site for latency-sensitive workloads running either locally or in nearby markets, including Philadelphia and Washington, while the Paris site represents a new option for organizations facing data sovereignty challenges posed by EU regulation.To read this article in full, please click here
On today’s Heavy Networking we talk LACP and link aggregation. While bonding two or more links together to act as a single virtual link has been done for decades, LACP and link aggregation aren't the same thing, and the distinction matters. Our guest to get into the differences is network instructor Tony Bourke.
