The Cloud Gets Foggy
The explosion of sensor and IoT data at the edge is forcing organizations to rethink the location of their data processing infrastructure, “bringing down” the cloud to the ground in the form of fog computing.Network Break 405: Tech And Geopolitics Collide; Juniper Posts Record Q3 Results
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a trio of stories at the intersection of tech and global political power struggles. Plus, startup Versa Networks lands $120 million investment in a pre-IPO round, and tech companies including Juniper Networks, Intel, and Google/Alphabet release financial results.Network Break 405: Tech And Geopolitics Collide; Juniper Posts Record Q3 Results
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a trio of stories at the intersection of tech and global political power struggles. Plus, startup Versa Networks lands $120 million investment in a pre-IPO round, and tech companies including Juniper Networks, Intel, and Google/Alphabet release financial results.
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Lenovo And UConn Use HPC And AI To Predict The Weather
Sponsored Feature: Humans have wanted to know what the weather is going to do since first we understood how the forces of nature determined our expectations of survival. …
Lenovo And UConn Use HPC And AI To Predict The Weather was written by James Hayes at The Next Platform.
BGP Configuration on FortiOS
I’ve never done a post on Forti-anything, but I’m really appreciating the products Fortinet is putting out lately. They’re transitioning from “run your SMB off of our stuff” to “actually, we’re pretty good for larger companies”, so their GUI lacks features to keep the SMB from blowing stuff up, The advanced features are there in the CLI, and I wanted to use it to show that difference between the GUI and the real config.
Let’s review some of the basic configuration elements of BGP first. You need an autonomous system (AS) number and a router ID for your side. You also need the AS number of the remote system. You need the IP address on their side (usually the interface facing you). That looks something like this. We’re going to be ‘Fortigate 1’ for this exercise.
With just this information, we can turn up a BGP neighbor that does absolutely nothing. To actually send some routes, you need to tell BGP what to send. We’ll keep this simple and add just connected networks. Adding to the diagram, we get this.
Now we have something of value (though choosing BGP over OSPF or RIP for this little scenario is pretty horrible). Continue reading
Apple Only Pays 48M per year in Bug Bounties ?
This article from Apple boggles my brain: Apple Security Bounty. Upgraded. – Apple Security Research – https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-security-bounty-upgraded/ In the past two and a half years since opening our program, we’re incredibly proud to have awarded researchers nearly $20 million in total payments, with an average payout of $40,000 in the Product category, and including 20 […]
Let Ansible keep an eye on your AWS environment
In a cloud model, the security of the environment and compliance becomes the responsibility of both the end users and the cloud provider. This is what we call the shared responsibility model in which every part of the cloud, including the hardware, data, configurations, access rights, and operating system, are protected. Depending on the local legislation and the origin of the data that is handled (for instance laws like HIPAA, the GDPR in Europe, or the Californian CCPA), you may have to enforce strict rules on your environment and log events for audit purposes. AWS CloudTrail will help you to achieve this goal. The service can collect and record any kind of information coming from your environment and store or send the events to a destination for audit. In addition to security and compliance, this service helps keep track of resource consumption.
Ansible’s CloudTrail module is used to leverage the various features of the CloudTrail service to monitor and audit user activities and API calls in the AWS environment. A trail is a configuration that lets us describe an event filter and decide where the matching entries should be sent. The recent 5.0.0 release of the Amazon.aws Continue reading
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Rural Broadband
Opt-outs by Starry and others, questions of speed, and making business cases have created uncertainty for enterprise network planners looking to reach offices and homes by operators fueled by the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.Kubernetes 003. Developing and Publishing Cloud-Native Application: Overview of Key Kubernetes Primitives
Hello my friend,
It took a bit since our previous blogpost about the setup of the highly-available Kubernetes cluster with multiple control plane and worker nodes. We aimed to write the blogpost about the upgrade, but we will park it for now for two reasons:
- Despite this topic is needed for the exam, it is not very often performed within the cluster.
- We want to provide a broader overview of Kubernetes from the perspective of building and using applications on top of it.
Therefore, we decided to walk you through the main components used to build and publish your application in a cloud native way on Kubernetes. Let’s dive into that.
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Can Kubernetes Help to Automate Networks?
These days there are interesting projects emerging with Kubernetes acting as a management plane for network devices. Kubernetes in such projects has a role of the entity, which distributes configuration to the worker nodes, which are either proxies for Continue reading
Generalized Linear Models(GLMs) Rough Notes
In case of Linear Models, we assume a linear relationship between the mean of the response variable and a set of explanatory variables with inference assuming that response variable has a Normal conditional distribution with constant variance. The Generalized Linear Model permits the distribution for the Response Variable other than the normal and permits modeling of non-linear functions of the mean. Linear models are special case of GLM.Generalized Linear Models(GLMs) Rough Notes
Generalized Linear Model
In case of Linear Models, we assume a linear relationship between the mean of the response variable and a set of explanatory variables with inference assuming that response variable has a Normal conditional distribution with constant variance. The Generalized Linear Model permits the distribution for the Response Variable other than the normal and permits modeling of non-linear functions of the mean. Linear models are special case of GLM.
GLM extends normal linear models to encompass non-normal distributions and equating linear predictors to nonlinear functions of the mean. The fundamental preimise is that
1) We have a linear predictor. $\eta_{i} = a + Bx$.
2) Predictor is linked to the fitted response variable value of $Y_{i}, \mu_{i}$
3) The linking is done by the link function, such that $g(\mu_{i}) = \eta_{i} $. For example, for a linear function $\mu_{i} = \eta_{i}$, for an exponential function, $log(\mu_{i}) = \eta_{i}$
$ g(\mu_{i}) = \beta_{0} + \beta_{1}x_{i1} + … + \beta_{p}x_{ip} $
The link function $g(\mu_{i})$ is called the link function.
Some common examples:
- Identity: $\mu = \eta$, example: $\mu = a + bx$
- Log: $log(\mu) = \eta$, example: $\mu = e^{a + bx}$
- Logit: $logit(\mu) = \eta$, example: $\mu = Continue reading
Worth Exploring: NetTowel
A few months ago, Urs Baumann created NetTowel, a very nice CLI wrapper around several popular libraries, including Jinja2, TTP, NetMiko and netaddr. Although it seems he got busy with other things in recent months, and the development stalled a bit, the tool is definitely worth exploring.
Worth Exploring: NetTowel
A few months ago, Urs Baumann created NetTowel, a very nice CLI wrapper around several popular libraries, including Jinja2, TTP, NetMiko and netaddr. Although it seems he got busy with other things in recent months, and the development stalled a bit, the tool is definitely worth exploring.
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians
It is the nature of big tech companies with near monopolies to start looking a bit like Rome in its Golden Age – the Pax Romana that held from when Augustus Caesar became emperor in 27 BC until Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD. …
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.