It’s time for the April Hedge roundtable! This month Eyvonne, Russ, and Tom are talking about OpenAI, the hype around AI, the “pause letter” and the lack of a real conversation, and the rising costs of building and operating a data center. As always, let us know if you have topics you’d like to hear us talk about, or guests you’d like to hear.
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We generally know that when we buy a piece of technology that it will not last forever, connectors wear out and/or go out of fashion. But I think the most frust
Lukas Krattiger wrapped up his EVPN-versus-MLAG presentation (part of EVPN Deep Dive webinar) with an overview of the advantages and drawbacks of EVPN-based multihoming solutions:
Lukas Krattiger wrapped up his EVPN-versus-MLAG presentation (part of EVPN Deep Dive webinar) with an overview of the advantages and drawbacks of EVPN-based multihoming solutions:
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The following sponsored blog post was written by Anupam Upadhyaya at Palo Alto Networks. We thank Palo Alto Networks for being a sponsor. Prisma Access, the cloud-delivered security service from Palo Alto Networks, delivers an industry-leading 99.999% uptime SLA A question that is often asked in the industry is “Do we really need 99.999% uptime […]
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As more organizations embrace containerization and adopt Kubernetes, they reap the benefits of platform scalability, application portability, and optimized infrastructure utilization. However, with this shift comes a new set of security challenges related to enabling connectivity for applications in heterogeneous environments.
In this blog post, we’ll explore a real-life scenario of security exposure resulting from egress traffic leaving the Kubernetes cluster. We’ll examine how the Calico Egress Gateway can help mitigate these issues by providing robust access control. By using Calico Egress Gateway, enterprises can secure communication from their Kubernetes workloads to the internet, 3rd party applications and networks while maintaining a high level of security.
The Calico Egress Gateway enforces security policies to regulate traffic flowing out of the Kubernetes cluster, providing granular control over egress traffic. This ensures that only authorized traffic is allowed to leave the cluster, mitigating the risks associated with unauthorized outbound traffic.
For enterprises developing cloud-native applications with containers and Kubernetes, a frequent requirement is to connect to a database server hosted either on-prem or in the cloud, which is safeguarded by a network-based firewall. Since workloads with Kubernetes are dynamic without a fixed IP address, enabling such connectivity from workloads Continue reading
In this episode, Michael catches up with Kristina Devochko, a Senior Software Architect to talk about Day Zero Kubernetes. Originally, Michael thought that it would be similar to Day One and Day Two Ops, but Day Zero is drastically different. Kristina and Michael discuss what engineers need to know to get the job done, how to think about planning Kubernetes architecture, and overall security best practices for what’s needed in Day Zero.
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As much as I want to move over to Mastodon full time, there’s one thing I feel that is massively holding it back. Yes, you can laud the big things about federations and freedom as much as you want. However, one thing I’ve seen hanging out in the fringes of the Fediverse that will ultimately hold Mastodon back is the hostility toward brands.
If you’re already up in arms because of that opening, ask yourself why. What is it about a brand that has you upset? Don’t they have the same right to share on the platform as the rest of us? I will admit that not every person on Mastodon has this outward hostility toward companies. However I can also sense this feeling that brands don’t belong.
It reminds me a lot of the thinly veiled distaste for companies that some Linux proponents have. The “get your dirty binary drivers out of my pristine kernel” crowd. The ones that want the brands to bend to their will and only do things the way they want. If you can’t provide us the drivers and software for free with full code support for us to hack as much Continue reading
I got this question from one of my readers:
Why are OSPF and BGP are more complex than STP from a designer or administrator point of view? I tried everything to come to a conclusion but I couldn’t find a concluded answer, ChatGPT gave a circular loop answer.
There are numerous reasons why a protocol, a technology or a solution might be more complex than another seemingly similar one (or as Russ White would have said, “if you haven’t found the tradeoffs, you haven’t looked hard enough”):
I got this question from one of my readers:
Why are OSPF and BGP are more complex than STP from a designer or administrator point of view? I tried everything to come to a conclusion but I couldn’t find a concluded answer, ChatGPT gave a circular loop answer.
There are numerous reasons why a protocol, a technology or a solution might be more complex than another seemingly similar one (or as Russ White would have said, “if you haven’t found the tradeoffs, you haven’t looked hard enough"):