IBM’s New Platform Uses Watson to Gain Insights From Data
Project DataWorks is meant to cut time spent surfing the data tsunami.
Worth Reading: Upstream surveillence
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Image2Docker: A New Tool for Prototyping Windows VM Conversions
Docker is a great tool for building, shipping, and running your applications. Many companies are already moving their legacy applications to Docker containers and now with the introduction of the Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Docker Engine can not run containers natively on Windows.To make it even easier, there’s a new prototyping tool for Windows VMs that shows you how to replicate a VM Image to a container.
Docker Captain Trevor Sullivan recently released the Image2Docker tool, an open source project we’re hosting on GitHub. Still in it’s early stages, Image2Docker is a Powershell module that you can point at a virtual hard disk image, scan for common Windows components and suggest a Dockerfile. And to make it even easier, we’re hosting it in the Powershell Gallery to make it easy to install and use.
In Powershell, just type:
Install-Module -Name Image2Docker
And you’ll have access to Get-WindowsArtifacts and ConvertTo-Dockerfile. You can even select which discovery artifacts to search for.
Currently Image2Docker supports VHD, VHDK, and WIM images. If you have a VMDK, Microsoft provides a great conversion tool to convert VMDK images to VHD images.
And as an open source project, lead by a Docker Captain, it’s easy Continue reading
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) Quiz,Questions and Detailed Answers
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) a.k.a Bloody Good Protocol quiz ! I prepared 20 Questions in this quiz for you. Intend of this quiz to provide you the BGP design information. This quiz is part of the BGP Review Questions of my upcoming new version of CCDE Workbook. There will be hundreds of questions in it and […]
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Verizon Reveals Items on Its Virtualization Roadmap
SD-WAN has been a great ice-breaker for SDN.
Datanauts 053: Automate Some Of The Things
Today on Datanauts we discuss reasons for automating, its impact on people and jobs, and why some things are better handled manually. Adam Jacob, CTO at Chef, joins us for the conversation. The post Datanauts 053: Automate Some Of The Things appeared first on Packet Pushers.Ansible in GitHub’s Octoverse 2016
Recently GitHub released their State of the Octoverse 2016 which shows some really nice statistics and graphs of top projects, languages and organizations working on open source.
GitHub, in the spirit of full transparency, shared the methodology and queries used to generate the report. We used this dataset to understand where Ansible stacks up. One of the drawbacks in the approach where you are just considering single repositories is that you don’t get a good idea of where a single project broken out into multiple repositories would fall. In Ansible’s case, the project is broken down into three repositories:
Let's look at GitHub’s first graphic, Repositories with the most open source contributors. When you just consider Ansible’s Core Project repo we’re just barely out of the top 10 at 11th place.1
What does that number look like if we combine all three repositories that make up the Ansible project?2 
As far as projects go that would have us in 5th just behind Patchwork.
One of the facets that was most strange to me was the inclusion of Comments Continue reading
Don’t Trust Hotel Currency Conversion
Experienced travelers will already know this, but it bears repeating: Don’t trust your hotel to perform currency conversions for credit card transactions. They will rip you off. Leave it to the credit card company.
A few months ago I stayed at a Sheraton hotel in Australia. They swiped my credit card when I checked in, and on check out they asked if I wished to pay with that same card. I did, so I didn’t need to swipe my card again. They sent me an invoice for approximately $265 AUD.
A few weeks later I was processing my expenses, and I realised I’d been charged over $300 NZD. With the exchange rate at the time, it should have been about $275. Looking closer, I realised that they had charged me in New Zealand dollars. They should have charged me in Australian dollars, and let my credit card company sort out the exchange rate.
What’s going on?
Some hotels offer you a choice of currency when paying your bill. This should be an option when you enter your PIN. Do not take this option. It is almost never a good idea. Your credit card company will charge you a fee for Continue reading
Don’t Trust Hotel Currency Conversion
Experienced travelers will already know this, but it bears repeating: Don’t trust your hotel to perform currency conversions for credit card transactions. They will rip you off. Leave it to the credit card company.
A few months ago I stayed at a Sheraton hotel in Australia. They swiped my credit card when I checked in, and on check out they asked if I wished to pay with that same card. I did, so I didn’t need to swipe my card again. They sent me an invoice for approximately $265 AUD.
A few weeks later I was processing my expenses, and I realised I’d been charged over $300 NZD. With the exchange rate at the time, it should have been about $275. Looking closer, I realised that they had charged me in New Zealand dollars. They should have charged me in Australian dollars, and let my credit card company sort out the exchange rate.
What’s going on?
Some hotels offer you a choice of currency when paying your bill. This should be an option when you enter your PIN. Do not take this option. It is almost never a good idea. Your credit card company will charge you a fee for Continue reading
Exascale Capabilities Underpin Future of Energy Sector
Oil and natural resource discovery and production is an incredibly risky endeavor, with the cost of simply finding a new barrel of oil tripling over the last ten years. Discovery teams want to ensure they are only drilling in the most lucrative locations, which these days means looking to increasingly inaccessible (for a bevy of reasons) sources for hydrocarbons.
Even with renewable resources like wind, there are still major financial risks. An accurate prediction of shifting output and location for expensive turbines are two early-stage challenges, and maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing those turbines is an ongoing pressure.
The common thread …
Exascale Capabilities Underpin Future of Energy Sector was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
How Uber Manages a Million Writes Per Second Using Mesos and Cassandra Across Multiple Datacenters
If you are Uber and you need to store the location data that is sent out every 30 seconds by both driver and rider apps, what do you do? That’s a lot of real-time data that needs to be used in real-time.
Uber’s solution is comprehensive. They built their own system that runs Cassandra on top of Mesos. It’s all explained in a good talk by Abhishek Verma, Software Engineer at Uber: Cassandra on Mesos Across Multiple Datacenters at Uber (slides).
Is this something you should do too? That’s an interesting thought that comes to mind when listening to Abhishek’s talk.
Developers have a lot of difficult choices to make these days. Should we go all in on the cloud? Which one? Isn’t it too expensive? Do we worry about lock-in? Or should we try to have it both ways and craft brew a hybrid architecture? Or should we just do it all ourselves for fear of being cloud shamed by our board for not reaching 50 percent gross margins?
Uber decided to build their own. Or rather they decided to weld together their own system by fusing together two very capable open source components. What was Continue reading