SDxCentral recently interviewed Red Hat's General Manager of OpenStack, Radhesh Balakrishnan, and discussed the meaning of carrier grade in the NFV world and the importance of working with the open source communities.
This page is just a place to collect different resources I’ve found as I explore Machine Learning and it’s application specially to networking analytics, infrastructure, control/management plane feedback loops and generally just geeking out on technology and math. It’s pretty amazing stuff if you haven’t gotten into it.
This is an incomplete list and I’ll continue adding to it as I get time. Feel free to share links if you’ve got any you found useful!
Primer
Youtube video – low on math youtu.be/b99UVkWzYTQ < thanks to Jon Hudson for this!
Dave Meyer’s Presentation from the DevOps4Networking forum March 2016
Coursera Machine Learning Specialization using R programming language from John Hopkins Univeristy
Coursera Machine Learning Specialization using Python programming language from University of Washington
Khan Academy has been a great source to fill in some of the gaps around Calculus, Regression, Statistics, etc…
This quote is from Jeff Dean, currently a Wizard, er, Fellow in Google’s Systems Infrastructure Group. It’s taken from his recent talk: Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer Systems.
Since AlphaGo vs Lee Se-dol, the modern version of John Henry’s fatal race against a steam hammer, has captivated the world, as has the generalized fear of an AI apocalypse, it seems like an excellent time to gloss Jeff’s talk. And if you think AlphaGo is good now, just wait until it reaches beta.
Jeff is referring, of course, to Google’s infamous motto: organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Historically we might associate ‘organizing’ with gathering, cleaning, storing, indexing, reporting, and searching data. All the stuff early Google mastered. With that mission accomplished Google has moved on to the next challenge.
Now organizing means understanding.
Some highlights from the talk for me:
Real neural networks are composed of hundreds of millions of parameters. The skill that Google has is in how to build and rapidly train these huge models on large interesting datasets, Continue reading
DPDK is now the open source framework for high-performance packet processing.
What does it mean for an application to be “cloud-native”? The Datanauts and guest Tony Bourke dive into the fundamentals of applications designed to live in the cloud.
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What does it mean for an application to be “cloud-native”? The Datanauts and guest Tony Bourke dive into the fundamentals of applications designed to live in the cloud.
The post Datanauts 027: What Is A Cloud-Native Application? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
The debate on encryption has heated up significantly in the last couple of months. Most of the recent discussion has revolved around a particular device in a specific case but encryption is older than that. Modern encryption systems represent the culmination of centuries of development of making sure things aren’t seen.
Did you know that twenty years ago the U.S. Government classified encryption as a munition? Data encryption was classified as a military asset and placed on the U.S. Munitions List as an auxiliary asset. The control of encryption as a military asset meant that exporting strong encryption to foreign countries was against the law. For a number of years the only thing that could be exported without fear of legal impact was regular old Data Encryption Standard (DES) methods. Even 3DES, which is theoretically much stronger but practically not much better than it’s older counterpart, was restricted for export to foreign countries.
While the rules around encryption export have been relaxed since the early 2000s, there are still some restrictions in place. Those rules are for countries that are on U.S. Government watch lists for terror states or governments deemed “rogue” states. Continue reading
Tom Hollingsworth delves into puzzling aspects of the initial rulings in Cisco’s lawsuit against rival Arista.
As more parts of IT become "software-defined," be sure you're asking the right questions.
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Usman asked a few questions in his comment on my blog, including:
At the moment, local RIB gets downloaded to FIB and we get packet forwarding on a router. If we start evaluating too many fields (PBR) and (assume) are able to push these policies to the FIB - what would become of the FIB table size?
Short answer: It would explode ;)
Read more ...Building a strong network of people is very important in creating a successful career in IT. In these posts we will start first look at why building a network is important and in the other posts we will look at how to actually build the network and how to make sure that you are also contributing to the network and not only exploiting it.
If you came here to read about connecting cables or routing protocols, sorry, this is not that kind of post. This post is about how to build a network of people.
People often understimate the power of having a big reach in the industry through a network of people. I often hear in my role that I’m almost too effective sometimes. Part of that is because I have a very good network of people that I trust and rely on. In this blog we will look at WHY you want to build a network of people.
The Borg Mind – Have you heard of Star Trek? No? Are you sure you work in IT? 
Jokes aside, there is species called the Borg in the series which do not so nice things. What it is nice about Continue reading
These are my notes from setting up Ubiquity wifi access point and router to replace the horrible BT HomeHub 5.
These are my notes from setting up Ubiquity wifi access point and router to replace the horrible BT HomeHub 5.
