Facebook’s chassis, Disaggregate & a webinar you don’t want to miss
Several weeks ago, we let out some big news about Backpack, Facebook’s chassis, running Cumulus Linux. If you missed the news, check it out here.
As part of our launch, we attended Facebook’s exclusive event, Disaggregate, to talk about all things open networking. Our CTO and cofounder, JR Rivers, gave a stellar presentation covering a short history of open networking (“I watched the Googles of the world grow up”), how ONIE was born and why Cumulus Linux was created to help an industry evolve, scale and build better networks. You can watch the full presentation here.
We also manned our station at the event, answering questions about our integration with Backpack and even demoing Cumulus Linux on the product. Some of our takeaways from the event included:
- There was a nice mix of customers. From hyper-scale to SaaS, traditional organizations to state and local governments — all types of organizations were represented. Some were there to learn about the benefits of open networking while others were looking for ways to scale their footprint.
- Most discussions with customers were about their ability to build and/or use their custom applications that traditional lock-in vendors don’t support, which gave them freedom and choice. Continue reading
NCC Group’s Cryptography Services audits our Go TLS 1.3 stack
The Cloudflare TLS 1.3 beta is run by a Go implementation of the protocol based on the Go standard library, crypto/tls. Starting from that excellent Go codebase allowed us to quickly start experimenting, to be the first wide server deployment of the protocol, and to effectively track the changes to the specification draft.
Of course, the security of a TLS implementation is critical, so we engaged NCC Group's Cryptography Services to perform an audit at the end of 2016.
You can find the codebase on the Cloudflare GitHub. It's a drop-in replacement for crypto/tls and comes with a go wrapper to patch the standard library as needed.
The code is developed in the open but is currently targeted only at internal use: the repository is frequently rebased and the API is not guaranteed to be stable or fully documented. You can take a sneak peek at the API here.
The final goal is to upstream the patches to the Go project so that all users of the Go standard library benefit from it. You can follow the process here.
Below we republish the article about the audit first appeared on the NCC Group's blog.
NCC Group's Cryptography Services Complete Continue reading
Why I Enthusiastically Switched from Cacti to Zabbix for System Monitoring
Cacti is a “complete network graphing solution” according to their website. It has also been a thorn in my side for a long time.
See what I did there? Thorn… because it's a cactus… never mind.
When Cacti is in a steady state-when I could get it to a steady state-it was good. Not great, because there was a lot of effort to get it into what I consider “steady state”, but good. The rest of the time… thorny.
There are five major things that have driven me up the wall. In no particular order:
Introduction to YANG Programming and RESTCONF on Cisco IOS XE
The sheer size of some of the YANG models can scare away even the bravest of network engineers. However, as it is with any programming language, the complexity is built out of a finite set of simple concepts. In this post we’ll learn some of these concepts by building our own YANG model to program static IP routes on Cisco IOS XE.
Continue readingJuggling Applications On Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi Chips
Intel’s many-core “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is just a glimpse of what can be expected of supercomputers in the not-so-distant future of high performance computing. As the industry continues its march to exascale computing, systems will become more complex, and evolution that will include processors that not only sport a rapidly increasing number of cores but also a broad array of on-chip resources ranging from memory to I/O. Workloads ranging from simulation and modeling applications to data analytics and deep learning algorithms are all expected to benefit from what these new systems will offer in terms of processing capabilities. …
Juggling Applications On Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Microsoft President Calls for a Digital Geneva Convention
As nation-states attack civilians, someone needs to draw the line, Brad Smith says.
Response: Network Icons – ‘net work
These are great icons for network diagrams from Russ White. Much more useful for all diagrams purposes than most other icons.
I’ve developed this set of vendor neutral network icons for drawing diagrams in presentations, books, and the like. I’m placing them here in the public domain in four different formats
Network Icons – ‘net work : http://rule11.us/net-icons/
Personally, I use simple shapes and colours for my diagrams for simplicity but I suspect these will appeal to people who are Visio-centric in their workflow.
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