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.
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.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.
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
Worth Reading: Windows WPAD attack
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