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Swrve -- In November we closed a $30m funding round, and we’re now expanding our engineering team based in Dublin (Ireland). Our mobile marketing platform is powered by 8bn+ events a day, processed in real time. We’re hiring intermediate and senior backend software developers to join the existing team of thirty engineers. Sound like fun? Come join us.

Senior Service Reliability Engineer (SRE): Drive improvements to help reduce both time-to-detect and time-to-resolve while concurrently improving availability through service team engagement. Ability to analyze and triage production issues on a web-scale system a plus. Find details on the position here: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/434

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Slacking Off

A Candlestick Phone (image courtesy of WIkipedia)

There’s a great piece today on how Slack is causing disruption in people’s work habits. Slack is a program that has dedicated itself to getting rid of email, yet we now find ourselves mired in Slack team after Slack team. I believe the real issue isn’t with Slack but instead with the way that our brains are wired to handle communication.

Interrupt Driven

People get interrupted all the time. It’s a fact of life if you work in business, not just IT. Even if you have your head down typing away at a keyboard and you’ve closed out all other forms of distraction, a pop up from an email or a ringing or vibrating phone will jar your concentration out of the groove and force your brain to deal with this new intruder into your solitude.

That’s evolution working against you. When we were hunters and gatherers our brain had to learn how to deal with external threats when we were focused on a task like stalking a mammoth or looking for sprouts on the forest floor. Our eyes are even developed to take advantage of this. Your peripheral vision will pick up Continue reading

Worth Watching: The Basics of ASIC Design

Dave Zacks, Principal Engineer, discusses how Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are designed and built and how Cisco is approaching new trends in software programmability and extensibility to provider better value and capabilities to their customers. -via tech field day

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Cisco flexes some data center muscle at Partner Summit 2016

Cisco’s reseller event, Partner Summit, kicked off this week in San Diego. The event is normally a big one for Cisco as thousands of its resellers gather to be updated on the latest, greatest plans for Cisco. All eyes are on Chuck Robbins as this is the first Partner Summit held under his watch as the company’s CEO. The event kicks off today and has already seen Cisco make a couple of significant announcements in the data center.This morning Cisco announced its intention to acquired Silicon Valley based, CliQr Technologies for $260 million. The 105-person company provides application centric cloud orchestration that enables customers to model, deploy and manage across bare metal, virtual and container environments regardless of whether the infrastructure is on premise or in a private or public cloud. The technology will be used to help Cisco customers move to a seamless hybrid cloud model where the information can be moved between clouds, and resources can be provisioned across clouds. CliQr’s technology is already tightly integrated into a number of Cisco data center products including ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and Unified Computing System (UCS). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please Continue reading

Cisco flexes some data center muscle at Partner Summit 2016

Docker Networking Design Philosophy

From the experimental networking in Docker 1.7 to the initial release in Docker 1.9, the reception from the community has been fantastic! First of all we want to thank you for all the discussions, evaluations, PRs and filed issues. As … Continued

Don’t let DROWN get you down

If you’re maintaining services on the internet, you know about the importance of keeping up to date with security patches as they come available. Today is no exception with the release of CVE-2016-0800, describing the ‘DROWN’ vulnerability in OpenSSL.

The key points of DROWN are that it can allow for passive decryption of encrypted traffic, via vulnerabilities in the obsolete SSLv2 protocol. Merely using SSLv2 for one service could cause the compromise the traffic of other services, even if they aren’t using SSLv2. More information can be found at http://www.drownattack.com/.

The Red Hat specific announcement can be found in the Red Hat Knowledgebase.

Obviously, this is a big deal, but patching your systems for DROWN doesn’t have to be a big deal, thanks to Ansible.

Here’s a sample playbook for Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu systems (link to source):

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: true
  sudo: true
  tasks:
	- name: update openssl from apt if available
  	  apt: name=openssl state=latest update_cache=yes
  	  when: ansible_os_family == 'Debian'
  	  notify: restart_system
  
	- name: update openssl from yum if available
  	  yum: name=openssl state=latest update_cache=yes
  	  when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
  	  notify: restart_system

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Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems that for years, the death of Fibre Channel has been speculated, as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or even IP networks would be the death knell for the more traditional storage protocol.However, Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking. It’s certainly not the high growth market it once was but the market has maintained about a $2 billion run rate over the past few years. The big driver for the continued investment has been the rise of flash-based storage. The value proposition of flash is speed so it makes sense to deploy a storage network that is as fast as possible.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Announcing Docker Cloud

Today we are proud to announce the immediate general availability of Docker Cloud. And we are excited to invite and welcome everyone of you to try it out. Docker Cloud is the name of the new cloud service by Docker … Continued

OPNFV Lets the Rivers of Brahmaputra Flow

It’s in a race with vendors doing similar work.

Staying afloat: the DROWN Attack and CloudFlare

CloudFlare customers are automatically protected against the recently disclosed DROWN Attack. We do not have SSLv2 enabled on our servers.

We publish our SSL configuration here so that others can use it. We currently accept TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.

We are proactively testing our customers' origin web servers to detect vulnerable servers and will be reaching out to any that have a server that is vulnerable to DROWN.

In the interim, ensure that SSLv2 is fully disabled and/or that private keys are not shared with servers that still need to have SSLv2.

Networking: Best-of-Breed Vs. Single Vendor

Should you take a multi-vendor approach to your network or is a homogeneous network the best bet?

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Bridging Loops

Continuing our bridging loops discussion Christoph Jaggi sent me another question:

Theoretically STP should avoid bridging loops, and yet you claim they cause data center meltdowns. What am I missing?

In theory, STP avoids bridging loops. In practice, there are numerous reasons STP got a bad name.

Microsoft unveils Windows 10 feature to stymie advanced hack attacks

Microsoft wants to help protect companies from hack attacks, and it's introducing a new Windows 10 feature soon to improve the operating system's security capabilities.Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is aimed at helping businesses deal with serious threats by using machine learning to protect Windows 10 devices. The feature builds a profile of how a computer behaves, and then alerts IT managers if it starts acting in a way that's indicative of a security breach. If the system detects an attack, it will provide administrators with recommended steps to remediate it.That's supposed to help IT managers sleep a bit better at night when facing threats powered by undisclosed "zero-day" vulnerabilities, along with social engineering attacks that take advantage of users making mistakes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Taking The Mystery Out Of IoT

Some networking pros may still scoff at the impending Internet of Things, but ignore it at your peril.

Hot security products at RSA 2016

bugBlast Next-gen AppSec PlatformKey features – bugBlast correlates results from vulnerability testing tools with real-time threat intel for a single view of an application’s security; can massively scale to test mega-apps for software, Web and mobile. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Does your Wave2 AP need NBase-T?

Cisco recently launched the 2800 and 3800 series 802.11ac wave-2 access points. The 3800 Datasheet quotes a theoretical maximum throughput of 5.2Gbps when operating in Dual 5GHz radio mode (2 x 2.6Gbps). If you ran two cables to your AP you could use the second ethernet port to create a 2 x 1Gbps LAG. However there is still some debate about whether 2Gbps of throughput is sufficient for a single-radio Wave2 AP.
Some companies may not be willing to invest the time and expense to swap out their copper for fiber or run yet more copper to their APs. The NBase-T standard 802.3bz provides an alternative approach, promising speeds of 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps over Cat5e cabling over 100 Meter runs.

Peter Jones from Cisco is the chair of the NBase-T alliance and presented to us in Tech field day on the new 802.3bz standard and the technology behind it. Cisco terminology for NBase-T-like functionality is ‘MultiGigabit Ethernet’. Currently the Cisco Catalyst 2k, 3K, and 4K switching line have specific models or line cards which support a number of combined UPoE/MultiGig ports. The reason for new hardware is that new digital signal processors (DSPs) are required to achieve the 2.5Gbps Continue reading

Does your Wave2 AP need NBase-T?

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Simplifying Deployment of Packet Broker

In my last blog, I have discussed how a software defined visibility network could open up exciting applications for mobile operators. In this post, I would like to touch upon some typical operational challenges faced by implementation engineers and network operations staff when deploying and supporting network packet brokers. Operators often have a high-level understanding... Read more →

Kubernetes with SaltStack revisited

I thought it would be a good idea to revisit my last Kubernetes build in which I was using Salt to automate the deployment. The setup worked well at the time, but much has changed with Kubernetes since I initially wrote those state files. That being said, I wanted to update them to make sure they worked with Kubernetes 1.0 and above. You can find my Salt config for this build over at Github…

https://github.com/jonlangemak/saltstackv2

A couple of quick notes before we walk through how to use the repo…

-While I used the last version of this repo as a starting point, I’ve stripped this down to basics (AKA – Some of the auxiliary pods aren’t here (yet)). I’ll be adding to this constantly and I do intend to add a lot more functionality to the defined state files.
-All of the Kubernetes related communication is unsecured. That is – it’s all over HTTP. I already started work on adding an option to do SSL if you so choose.

That being said, let’s jump right into how to use this. My lab looks like this…

Here we have 3 Continue reading

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