Worth Reading: The Death of CLI
Jeff McLaughlin wrote a nice blog post on the death of CLI (and why it has been greatly exaggerated):
The GUI-based layout tool [for iOS app development] is going away in favor of UI-as-code! The black screen always comes back!
As I’ve been saying for ages: people optimizing their productivity use CLI.
Worth Reading: The Death of CLI
Jeff McLaughlin wrote a nice blog post on the death of CLI (and why it has been greatly exaggerated):
The GUI-based layout tool [for iOS app development] is going away in favor of UI-as-code! The black screen always comes back!
As I’ve been saying for ages: people optimizing their productivity use CLI.
Hybrid Work Dictates Converged Endpoint Security and Operations Management
Hybrid work has made it essential for visibility across these functions to provide IT and enterprise managers with a complete view of any issue that might arise.MAC Flooding Attack
Unlike a hub, a switch is a network device that typically does not forward a […]
The post MAC Flooding Attack first appeared on Brezular's Blog.
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Is the US IT Industry Prepared for a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan?
There's hope that the high cost of a Taiwan invasion will dissuade China from attacking. Still, IT organizations are advised to prepare for a worst-case scenario.Ask JJX: Lynyrd Skynyrd Answers “Who Should Create an Org’s BYOD Policy?”
After LastPass's latest breach through a personal laptop, most boards, CIOs, and CISOs are taking the opportunity to reevaluate their Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies.
Here's how, why, and a lesson learned from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Demo Bytes: Managing Your SD-WAN Deployment Lifecycle With LiveAction’s LiveNX (Sponsored) – Video
Sponsor LiveAction demonstrates how its LiveNX product can be used to deploy, monitor and repair multi-vendor SD-WANs. Our guest is Ron Groulx, Senior Systems Sales Engineer at LiveNX. LiveNX can manage and monitor your SD-WAN lifecycle from day zero (baselining your network performance) to day one (building policies to optimize performance) to day two (deployment […]
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The Age Of Acceleration Engines
Sponsored Feature: Back in the old days, there was a CPU and chip designers crammed everything into that single CPU, which made sense for the greatest number of customers offset against the additional cost of adding extra functionality. …
The Age Of Acceleration Engines was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Heavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome
Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what you’re doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it ‘til you make it, right? To handle the cognitive dissonance of impostor syndrome, we overcompensate. In doing so, we pay a personal price. Today's Heavy Networking guest is Matt Vitale. He's here to share what he's learned about coping with and overcoming imposter syndrome.Heavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome
Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what you’re doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it ‘til you make it, right? To handle the cognitive dissonance of impostor syndrome, we overcompensate. In doing so, we pay a personal price. Today's Heavy Networking guest is Matt Vitale. He's here to share what he's learned about coping with and overcoming imposter syndrome.
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Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on Azure with Pulumi
A little over a month ago I published a post on creating a Talos Linux cluster on AWS with Pulumi. Talos Linux is a re-thinking of your typical Linux distribution, custom-built for running Kubernetes. Talos Linux has no SSH access, no shell, and no console; instead, everything is managed via a gRPC API. This post is something of a “companion post” to the earlier AWS post; in this post, I’ll show you how to create a Talos Linux cluster on Azure with Pulumi.
The program I’ll share with you in this post is written in Go, but the process outlined in this post and the accompanying code is equally applicable in other languages supported by Pulumi. (TypeScript is a popular choice for lots of folks.) The code is available in this GitHub repository. It’s based on this documentation from Sidero Labs, and I also found this blog post to be helpful as well.
The Pulumi program follows this overall flow:
- First, the program creates the base infrastructure objects that are required—a resource group, a virtual network, some subnets, and a network security group.
- Next, it creates a load balancer, gets a public IP address for the load Continue reading
Upgrading one of the oldest components in Cloudflare’s software stack
Cloudflare serves a huge amount of traffic: 45 million HTTP requests per second on average (as of 2023; 61 million at peak) from more than 285 cities in over 100 countries. What inevitably happens with that kind of scale is that software will be pushed to its limits. As we grew, one of the problems we faced was related to deploying our code. Sometimes, a release would be delayed because of inadequate hardware resources on our servers. Buying more and more hardware is expensive and there are limits to e.g. how much memory we can realistically have on a server. In this article, we explain how we optimised our software and its release process so that no additional resources are needed.
In order to handle traffic, each of our servers runs a set of specialised proxies. Historically, they were based on NGINX, but increasingly they include services created in Rust. Out of our proxy applications, FL (Front Line) is the oldest and still has a broad set of responsibilities.
At its core, it’s one of the last uses of NGINX at Cloudflare. It contains a large amount of business logic that runs many Cloudflare products, using a variety of Continue reading
Video: Sample Kubernetes SDN Implementations
It’s time for another Kubernetes video. After Stuart Charlton explained the Kubernetes SDN architecture, he described architectural approaches of Kubernetes SDN implementations, using Flannel as a sample implementation.
Video: Sample Kubernetes SDN Implementations
It’s time for another Kubernetes video. After Stuart Charlton explained the Kubernetes SDN architecture, he described architectural approaches of Kubernetes SDN implementations, using Flannel as a sample implementation.
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap
It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. …
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.