TCP and QUIC are the two primary transport protocols in use on the Internet today—QUIC carries a large part of the HTTP traffic that makes the web work, while TCP carries most everything else that expects reliability. Why can’t we apply the lessons from QUIC to TCP so we can merge these two protocols, unifying Internet transport? TCPLS is just such an attempt at merging the most widely used reliable transport protocols.
According to the global IXP Database, as of January 2021, of the 630 registered Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), 229 are in Europe, 126 in North America, 140 in Asia-Pacific, 96 in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and 39 in Africa. Although the LAC region is second-last on the list, there has been a strong […]
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What is a legacy data management and data analytics platform with 1,800 large enterprise customers worth? …
Why Cloudera Might Be Worth $5.3 Billion After All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in its earliest days, hyperconverged infrastructure was seen primarily as a consolidation play, a way to bring together compute, storage, networking and management together into a single package and offset some of the rising costs and complexities in enterprise datacenters. …
Separating Compute And Storage In Hyperconverged Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nearly 80,000 participants registered for DockerCon Live 2021! There were fantastic keynotes, compelling sessions, thousands of interactions and everything in-between that a developer and development teams need to help solve their day-to-day application development challenges.
In all that excitement, you might have missed the new innovations that Docker announced to make it easier for developers to build, share and run your applications from code to cloud. These enhancements are a result of Docker’s continued investment and commitment to make sure developers have the best experience possible while making app development more efficient and secure.
Application security is directly tied to the software supply chain. Developers are realizing the importance of integrating security as early as possible in the development process. They must now consider the security directives of their organization and associated compliance rules while also enabling their teams to work in the most secure, efficient way possible.
These new product enhancements bolster security in a number of dimensions including scanning for vulnerabilities during different development stages and increasing team security by offering tools such as audit logs and scoped access tokens.
Take a look at what we announced:
Verified Publisher Program
Docker launched the Docker Verified Publisher program Continue reading
Gotta have cloud on the resume to get the next job ?
Docker Inc. started like many startups with engineers working from a single location. For us, this was in the Bay Area in the US. We were very office-centric, so the natural way to increase diversity and to get engineers from different cultures to work together was to open new offices in diverse locations. Right from the start, our goal was to mix American and European ways of producing software, giving us the best of both cultures.
In 2015, Docker started to open offices in Europe, starting with Cambridge in the United Kingdom and followed by Paris in France. With these two locations, the long road to gaining experience working with remote employees began.
Having multiple offices scattered around the world is different from being fully remote. But you still start experiencing some of the challenges of not having everybody in the same location simultaneously. We spent a great deal of our time on planes or trains visiting each other.
Despite the robust open-source culture of the company, which shows that you can build great software while not having everybody in the same room, we still had a very office-centric culture. A lot of the Continue reading
When I wrote about my sample OSPF+BGP hands-on lab on LinkedIn, someone couldn’t resist asking:
I’m still wondering why people use two routing protocols and do not have clean redistribution points or tunnels.
Ignoring for the moment the fact that he missed the point of the blog post (completely), the idea of “using tunnels or redistribution points instead of two routing protocols” hints at the potential applicability of RFC 1925 rule 4.
When I wrote about my sample katacoda hands-on lab on LinkedIn (mentioning how easy it is to set up an OSPF+BGP network), someone couldn’t resist asking:
I’m still wondering why people use two routing protocols and do not have clean redistribution points or tunnels.
Ignoring for the moment the fact that he missed the point of the blog post (completely), the idea of “using tunnels or redistribution points instead of two routing protocols” hints at the potential applicability of RFC 1925 rule 4.
The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers, storage, and networking, and the cloud capacity and hyperscale services they provide may in turn represent a significant – but nowhere near dominant – chunk of overall IT spending. …
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut is defined by many firsts. She is well known for being the first Thai to establish email connection to the world. She was among the pioneers to establish Thailand’s research and education network. She registered the .th domain name, conducted Thailand’s first TV White Spaces trial, and started the first open and […]
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While the pandemic provided a funding boost to research supercomputing and life sciences HPC, the next wave of investments in HPC systems and simulation software might come from the rapidly evolving hypersonics space. …
Hypersonics Could Fuel Next Wave of HPC Investment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
I hadn’t done a personal hardware refresh in a while; my laptop was a 2017-era MacBook Pro (with the much-disliked butterfly keyboard) and my tablet was a 2014-era iPad Air 2. Both were serviceable but starting to show their age, especially with regard to battery life. So, a little under a month ago, I placed an order for some new Apple equipment. Included in that order was a new 2020 13" MacBook Pro with the Apple-designed M1 CPU. In this post, I’d like to provide a brief review of the 2020 M1-based MacBook Pro based on the past month of usage.
The “TL;DR” of my review is this: the new M1-based MacBook Pro offers impressive performance and even more impressive battery life. While the raw performance may not “blow away” its 2020 Intel-based counterpart—at least, it didn’t in my real-world usage—the M1-based MacBook Pro offered consistently responsive performance with a battery life that easily blew past any other laptop I’ve ever used, bar none.
Read on for more details.
The build quality is really good, with a significant improvement in keyboard quality relative to the earlier butterfly keyboard models (such as my 2017-era MacBook Pro). However, the overall design Continue reading
Crossplane is an open-source project that plugs into Kubernetes to serve as a control plane that can run across multiple private and public clouds. It allows infrastructure teams to compose infrastructure with all the required policies, permissions, and guardrails, while also providing APIs for developer self-service. Today's Day Two Cloud podcast dives into Crossplane and how it works with maintainer Daniel Mangum.
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While there are not many neuromorphic hardware makers, those on the market (or in the research device sphere) are still looking for ways to run more mainstream workloads. …
MPI on Neuromorphic Hardware Shows Greater Promise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.