IPv6 Buzz 088: Host OS IPv6 Addresses – What’s Up With That?
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz we chat about IPv6 addresses on host OSes: the different types, how they are formed, what they look like, how to tell them apart, and how they are used.IPv6 Buzz 088: Host OS IPv6 Addresses – What’s Up With That?
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz we chat about IPv6 addresses on host OSes: the different types, how they are formed, what they look like, how to tell them apart, and how they are used.
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The Power of AI and the Science of Operations (Part 1)
A variety of industry experts cite Artificial Intelligence and Automation as key emerging trends. But if you look around your organizations, you will see the evidence of AI projects and also an increasing focus on using automation in a variety of ways. IBM and Red Hat together can help you build on and apply these trends to your IT operations.
In this article, which is part 1 of the 2 articles that I intend to write, we will show how complex application environments produce more data than the humans tasked with running those environments can feasibly understand. And how the combination of an AIOps platform like Instana with an enterprise automation platform like Ansible Automation Platform can give human operators the edge they need to keep business critical applications running and users satisfied.
So much data, so little time
Having worked as an operation engineer in the past, I am aware of the all-too-familiar challenge of receiving a storm of alerts and trying to locate the root cause of an anomaly so as to isolate the problem and recover the services in the shortest possible time. However, conventional monitoring tools are often only able to raise Continue reading
DDoS Attack Trends for Q3 2021
The third quarter of 2021 was a busy quarter for DDoS attackers. Cloudflare observed and mitigated record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network-layer attacks, one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris), and more recently, ransom DDoS attacks on voice over IP (VoIP) service providers and their network infrastructure around the world.
Here’s a summary of the trends observed in Q3 ‘21:
Application-layer (L7) DDoS attack trends:
- For the second consecutive quarter in 2021, US-based companies were the most targeted in the world.
- For the first time in 2021, attacks on UK-based and Canada-based companies skyrocketed, making them the second and third most targeted countries, respectively.
- Attacks on Computer Software, Gaming/ Gambling, IT, and Internet companies increased by an average of 573% compared to the previous quarter.
- Meris, one of the most powerful botnets in history, aided in launching DDoS campaigns across various industries and countries.
Network-layer (L3/4) DDoS attack trends:
- DDoS attacks increased by 44% worldwide compared to the previous quarter.
- The Middle East and Africa recorded the largest average attack increase of approximately 80%.
- Morocco recorded the highest DDoS activity in the third quarter globally — three out of every 100 packets were part of a DDoS Continue reading
Heavy Strategy 012: Professional Development in Infrastructure Technology
A rarely covered topic in technology is professional development. Other careers have extensive programs to ensure practitioners develop and maintain a wide range of skills but this principle is rare in IT.
Heavy Strategy 012: Professional Development in Infrastructure Technology
A rarely covered topic in technology is professional development. Other careers have extensive programs to ensure practitioners develop and maintain a wide range of skills but this principle is rare in IT.
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Why Does Internet Keep Breaking?
James Miles sent me a long list of really good questions along the lines of “why do we see so many Internet-related outages lately and is it due to BGP and DNS creaking of old age”. He started with:
Over the last few years there are more “high profile” incidents relating to Internet connectivity. I raise the question, why?
The most obvious reason: Internet became mission-critical infrastructure and well-publicized incidents attract eyeballs.
Ignoring the click baits, the underlying root cause is in many cases the race to the bottom. Large service providers brought that onto themselves when they thought they could undersell the early ISPs and compensate their losses with voice calls (only to discover that voice-over-Internet works too well).
Why Does Internet Keep Breaking?
James Miles sent me a long list of really good questions along the lines of “why do we see so many Internet-related outages lately and is it due to BGP and DNS creaking of old age”. He started with:
Over the last few years there are more “high profile” incidents relating to Internet connectivity. I raise the question, why?
The most obvious reason: Internet became mission-critical infrastructure and well-publicized incidents attract eyeballs.
Ignoring the click baits, the underlying root cause is in many cases the race to the bottom. Large service providers brought that onto themselves when they thought they could undersell the early ISPs and compensate their losses with voice calls (only to discover that voice-over-Internet works too well).
Javascript Notes: Types
Javascript is a dynamically type language. The types of variables are evaluated at runtime based on the contents of the variable. Typescript is a superset of Javascript which adds static typing to the language (amongst other things). There are two kinds of types in Javascript;...continue reading
Triggering Network Automation From The Web
How best to return from a cliffhanger ending – in a previous post we used Django’s Model class .save() to write network state—that is CLI standard output transformed to JSON using pyATS—into a PostgreSQL database table. Django also helped us convert, or migrate, a Pythonic class-based model into this SQL table in the first place. […]
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Cloudsourcing Your Way to Network Optimization
Cloud-managed network services use cloudsourcing and AI to see what types of network configurations produce ideal network performance.Fast and simple troubleshooting with GUI-based Dynamic Packet Capture
With the Calico 3.10 release, Dynamic Packet Capture is available in Dynamic Service Graph.
This means users who require self-service, live troubleshooting for microservices and Kubernetes workloads can capture and evaluate traffic packets on endpoints without writing a single line of code or using any 3rd-party troubleshooting tools. Users don’t need to learn about or have knowledge of kubectl or YAML to troubleshoot their microservices and Kubernetes cluster. Calico helps enforce organizational security policies by only allowing users to access their assigned namespaces and endpoints for troubleshooting.
About Dynamic Packet Capture
In most situations when you need to do a packet capture, the problem doesn’t last long and usually happens randomly. But once you narrow down the issue to a particular time or activity, you will need to set the right action plan to tackle the problem. Packet capture is now much easier, simpler, and faster than before.
Dynamic Packet Capture facilitates fast troubleshooting and easy debugging of microservice connectivity issues and performance hotspots in Kubernetes clusters. It is a Kubernetes-native custom resource that runs as part of user code against specific workloads in the cluster, without the need to execute any programs inside the cluster. Dynamic Packet Capture Continue reading
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.