Dismantling a Nuclear Bot
A recent tweet mentioned that a new banking malware called “Nuclear Bot” has started to appear for sale on underground marketplaces. Its price starts around $2500 which is more than double the price of another recent entry to the market. This post dismantles a sample […]Dismantling a Nuclear Bot
A recent tweet mentioned that a new banking malware called “Nuclear Bot” has started to appear for sale on underground marketplaces. Its price starts around $2500 which is more than double the price of another recent entry to the market. This post dismantles a sample of this malware to determine whether we need to take […]VMware Acquires Employees & Assets of PLUMgrid
The book closes on one of the earliest SDN startups.
Docker & Prometheus Joint Holiday Meetup Recap
Last Wednesday we had our 52nd meetup at Docker HQ, but this time we joined forces with the Prometheus user group to host a mega-meetup! There was a great turnout and members were excited to see the talks on using Docker with Prometheus, OpenTracing and the new Docker playground; play-with-docker.
First up was Stephen Day, a Senior Software Engineer at Docker, who presented a talk entitled, ‘The History of Metrics According to Me’. Stephen believes that metrics and monitoring should be built into every piece of software we create, from the ground up. By solving the hard parts of application metrics in Docker, he thinks it becomes more likely that metrics are a part of your services from the start. See the video of his intriguing talk and slides below.
‘The History of Metrics According to Me’ @stevvooe talking #metrics and #monitoring at the #Docker SF #meetup! @prometheusIO @CloudNativeFdn pic.twitter.com/6hk0yAtats
— Docker (@docker) December 15, 2016
Next up was Ben Sigelman, an expert in distributed tracing, whose talk ‘OpenTracing Isn’t Just Tracing: Measure Twice, Instrument Once’ was both informative and humorous. He Continue reading
5G Standard May Include Information-Centric Networking, MEC
ATIS, the 3GPP, and ETSI are looking closely at ICN and MEC.
How AT&T is Using Virtualization as a Security Tool
One of the first things we virtualized was our security, AT&T says.
Exaggerating the End of NetEng
The argument around learning to code, it seems, always runs something like this:
We don’t need network engineers any longer, or we won’t in five years. Everything is going to be automated. All we’ll really need is coders who can write a python script to make it all work. Forget those expert level certifications. Just go to a coding boot camp, or get a good solid degree in coding, and you’ll be set for the rest of your life!
It certainly seems plausible on the surface. The market is pretty clearly splitting into definite camps—cloud, disaggregated, and hyperconverged—and this split is certainly going to drive a lot of change in what network engineers do every day. But is this idea of abandoning network engineering skills and replacing them wholesale with coding skills really viable?
To think this question through, it’s best to start with another one. Assume everyone in the world decides to become a coder tomorrow. Every automotive engineer and mechanic, every civil engineer and architect, every chef, and every grocer moves into coding. The question that should rise just at this moment is: what is it that’s being coded? Back end coders code database systems and business logic. Continue reading