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Open Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework

Late last year, the CloudFlare UI team made a huge decision: to change JavaScript frameworks from Backbone & Marionette to React & Redux.

We’ve been one of the single biggest Backbone+Marionette apps on the web for a while now, and the decision to move was not taken lightly. On our team we have a former core team member of the Marionette team (myself), and the author of several popular Backbone projects: Backgrid and Backbone Paginator.

In the spirit of the open web, we want to share more about what we’re doing. This starts by open sourcing the UI framework that we have spent the last few months building.

Introducing cf-ui

While moving to React, we’ve taken our existing Backbone UI framework and rebuilt it from scratch on top of React. This includes over 50 packages that include dozens of components, utilities, test helpers, and more.

Open Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework

Examples: https://cloudflare.github.io/cf-ui
GitHub: https://github.com/cloudflare/cf-ui

We’re not open sourcing cf-ui because we think our buttons are any better than anyone else’s buttons, but because it’s an opportunity to share some of the technical decisions that we’ve made while building out a massive React application. The hope is that this will be Continue reading

Should You Care About Cloud Native?

To hear vendors tell the story, every enterprise in the world will be running cloud native applications on hybrid cloud networks any second now. In fact, if you’re not already firing up those containers, your business is behind. I mean…gosh…you’re probably losing thousands of dollars each minute because you’re not agile enough. You’ll be doing massive layoffs before you’re done reading this article just to stay alive. Nonsense.

Vetting vendors via VoIP

Who among us hasn’t set up a new and unique email account for a particular commercial transaction just so we’ll know who to blame when the account gets flooded with spam? Well, a member of Reddit’s community devoted to systems administration (r/sysadmin) says he took the tactic a step further … actually, 12 steps further.From a post headlined: “How to get blacklisted as a vendor.” Yesterday I was hunting for a new vendor. Mostly out of curiosity (but also to help me in picking a company that's not completely sleazy) I set up a batch of temporary phone numbers in our VoIP system, 12 in all, and called each vendor from a different number.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Vetting vendors via VoIP

IBM Turns Apache Spark Into a Data Science ‘Experience’

Space Mountain it ain't, but it sounds useful.

F5 Considers Buyout Offers

Analysts name several possible suitors.

US intelligence unit to advance management of virtual desktop security, systems

Getting a handle on cloud-based virtual operations is no easy task. Next month researchers from the Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity (IARPA) will introduce a new program that looks to address that management concern by developing better technology to manage and secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.+More on Network World: Intelligence agency wants computer scientists to develop brain-like computers+IARPA, the radical research arm of the of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will introduce the Virtuous User Environment (VirtUE) which it says aims to “creatively define and develop user environments that are more dynamic, secure, auditable, transferrable, and efficient than the current offerings provided by traditional physical workstations and commercial VDI; develop innovative, dynamic analytics and infrastructures that can leverage these newly developed user environments to both automatically detect and deter security threats that IC user environments will be subject to in the new cloud infrastructure.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

US intelligence unit to advance management of virtual desktop security, systems

Datanauts 037: Integrating Public Cloud Into A Production Environment

Today's Datanauts episode gets into the sticky details of integrating public cloud services, particularly AWS & Azure, with a production environment.

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Putting More Brains In The Network Frees Up Compute

One of the things that high-end network adapter and switch maker Mellanox Technologies got through its $811 million acquisition of network processing chip maker EZchip last September was a team that was well versed in massively parallel processor chip design, and one that could make Mellanox a potential player in the server chip space.

But not necessarily in the way you might be thinking about it.

The reason this is the case is that in July 2014, EZchip, wanting to expand out beyond its networking chip business as Applied Micro, Cavium, and Broadcom have all done with ARM-based server chips, …

Putting More Brains In The Network Frees Up Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Why Troubleshooting Is Overrated

This post is the result of a thought I had after someone asked me to describe an interesting problem I’d faced. I think they meant troubleshooting, because that’s how I answered it.

Speak to most network engineers about what they love about the job, and troubleshooting will crop up quite frequently. I’ve got to admit, being able to delve into a complex problem in a high pressure situation with a clock against it more often than not does give me a rush of sorts. The CLI-fu rolls off your fingers if you’ve been on point with your studies, or you’re an experienced engineer, you methodically tick off what the problems could be and there’s a “Eureka” moment where you triumphantly declare the root cause.

But then what?

I don’t mean what’s the solution to the problem. That’s usually obvious. In most cases, the root cause is one of these culprits:
– Poor design. E.g: 1Gb link in a 10Gb path, designing for ECMP and then realising they’ve used BGP to learn a default route and not influenced your metrics, so anything outside your little IGP’s domain is going to be deterministically routed.
– A fault. E.g: Link down Continue reading

Avaya IAUG is all about the Breeze, no troubles

This week the International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) is holding its annual event in Orlando. The IAUG is an independent user community, so even though the event was centered on Avaya, it was run by a group of customers and not the vendor. The theme of the event, “Engage” has been Avaya’s theme for many of its events over the past year, and it carried over into the user event. Gary Barnett, Avaya’s senior vice president and general manager of Engagement Solutions gave the day one keynote. In case you’re wondering what Engagement Solutions are, it’s really Avaya’s entire collaboration suite, which includes customer and team “engagement” solutions, as well as mobile application.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

2016 State of Bug Bounty report: Bigger bounties, more industries offering programs

The rise in global cyberattacks and the “critical deficit of security talent” helped bug bounty programs grow in the last year and to diversify from those offered by “tech giants” to more traditional industries.One trend over the last year has been for payouts to increase, according to the 2016 State of Bug Bounty report (pdf). Last year, the average bug reward on Bugcrowd’s platform was $200.81; this second annual report shows an increase of 47%, with the average reward rising to $294.70.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

2016 State of Bug Bounty report: Bigger bounties, more industries offering programs

Worth Reading: Windows WPAD attack

Windows’ WPAD feature has for many years provided attackers and penetration testers a simple way to perform MITM attacks on web traffic. There is, for example, a great blog post by Tod Beardsley called “MS09-008: Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD), Illustrated” that highlights the problems with WPAD. Now finally, roughly 10 years after WPAD was introduced, the penetration testing framework Metasploit includes support for WPAD via a new auxiliary module located at “auxiliary/server/wpad”. This module, which is written by Efrain Torres, can be used to perform for man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks by exploiting the features of WPAD. Netresec

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Microsoft boosts support for Spark-based big data analytics

Microsoft kicked off the Spark Summit in San Francisco with news of "an extensive commitment for Spark to power Microsoft's big data and analytics offerings, including Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI and Microsoft R Server."Spark started as an open source project at the University of California, Berkeley AMPLab in 2009 and was given to the Apache Foundation in 2012. A company to further Spark development was formed called DataBricks.Spark is a significant accelerator for Hadoop, the primary software used in big data analytics, because it does all of the work in memory. Hadoop ran primarily as a disk-based batch process, using a framework called MapReduce to execute a batch process, often overnight. You got your insight the next day. That’s why despite big data’s promise of real-time analytics, it often couldn't deliver.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IT pros stress is low, but so is job satisfaction

It's no secret that working IT is stressful, but a new survey from TEKsystems shows that the pressure may be easing for some IT professionals. The 2016 IT Stress and Pride survey from IT talent management and solutions company TEKsystems polled 241 IT workers at all experience levels in April of 2016, and found that just 14 percent of entry-to mid-level IT professionals and 18 percent of senior IT professionals consider the work they are currently doing to be the most stressful of their career.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Your step-by-step guide to repairing Windows 10

Though it's showing itself to be a good operating system (in line with Windows XP and Windows 7), sometimes a Windows 10 system will start misbehaving to the point where repair is needed. This often takes the form of worsening performance or stability and can originate from damage to or loss or corruption of Windows system files typically found in the C:\Windows folder hierarchy. When that happens, users would be well advised to break out the following routine to help them set things back to rights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

The 25GbE Datacenter Pipeline

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SDN may have made networking more exciting thanks to making hardware less important than it has been in the past, but that’s not to say that hardware isn’t important at all. The certainty with which new hardware will come out and make things a little bit faster than before is right there with death and taxes. One of the big announcements yesterday from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) during HPE Discover was support for a new 25GbE / 100GbE switch architecture built around the FlexFabric 5950 and 12900 products. This may be the tipping point for things.

The Speeds of the Many

I haven’t always been high on 25GbE. Almost two years ago I couldn’t see the point. Things haven’t gotten much different in the last 24 months from a speed perspective. So why the change now? What make this 25GbE offering any different than things from the nascent ideas presented by Arista?

First and foremost, the 25GbE released by HPE this week is based on the Broadcom Tomahawk chipset. When 25GbE was first presented, it was a collection of vendors trying to convince you to upgrade to their slightly faster Ethernet. But in the past two years, most of the Continue reading

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