Network Break 334: Palo Alto Unveils New Security Gear; Arista Saves Time With Lowest-Latency Switch

This week's Network Break covers new firewalls & other security products from Palo Alto Networks, discusses Arista's lowest-latency switch (now with EOS), reviews financial results from Cisco and Palo Alto, and explains why Microsoft is making Internet Explorer go away (just not entirely).

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Is it really the best just because its the most common?

I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard someone ask these two questions—

  • What are other people doing?
  • What is the best common practice?

While these questions have always bothered me, I could never really put my finger on why. I ran across a journal article recently that helped me understand a bit better. The root of the problem is this—what does best common mean, and how can following the best common produce a set of actions you can be confident will solve your problem?

Bellman and Oorschot say best common practice can mean this is widely implemented. The thinking seems to run something like this: the crowd’s collective wisdom will probably be better than my thinking… more sets of eyes will make for wiser or better decisions. Anyone who has studied the madness of crowds will immediately recognize the folly of this kind of state. Just because a lot of people agree it’s a good idea to jump off a cliff does not mean it is, in fact, a good idea to jump off a cliff.

Perhaps it means something closer to this is no worse than our competitors. If that’s the meaning, though, it’s a pretty cynical Continue reading

Tech Bytes: Nokia’s Fabric Services System Simplifies Data Center Operations (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Byte explores a digital sandbox for fabric emulation. This unique feature is part of Nokia's Fabric Services System for automating and operating a data center fabric. Our Nokia guest is Phani Koganti, Senior Director of Product Management. This is a sponsored episode.

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The Week in Internet News: Rural Areas Need Broadband to Attract Workers

Recruiting issue: Companies in some areas of the rural U.S. are trying to hire workers, but the lack of quality broadband service is hurting their efforts, the New York Times reports. The story looks at a manufacturer of asphalt paving equipment in rural Iowa that paid to have fiber laid to its factory, but there’s […]

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The State of Data Center Networking 2021: Long Live Private Cloud

Today Pluribus announced the release of the State of the Data Center Networking 2021 Annual Report. This groundbreaking original research, conducted with Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), not only confirms many of the trends we have discussed recently, it reveals just how strong they are.

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Transient prompt with Zsh

Powerlevel10k is a prompt for Zsh. It contains some powerful features, is astoundingly fast, and easy to customize. I am quite amazed at the skills of its main author. Be sure to also have a look at Zsh for Humans, a complete Zsh configuration including this theme.

One of the nice features of Powerlevel10k is transient prompts: past prompts are reduced to a more minimal configuration to save space by removing unneeded information.

Demonstration of a transient prompt with Zsh: past prompts use a more compact form
My implementation of a transient prompt with Zsh. Past prompts are compact and include the time of the command execution, the hostname, and the status of the previous command while the complete prompt contains more information like the current directory and the Git branch.

When it comes to configuring my shell, I still prefer writing and understanding each line going into it. Therefore, I am still building my Zsh configuration from scratch. Here is how I have integrated the above transient feature into my prompt.

The first step is to configure the appearance of the prompt in its compact form. Let’s assume we have a variable, $_vbe_prompt_compact set to 1 when we want a compact prompt. We use the following function to define the prompt Continue reading

Feedback: Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive

Here’s what one of the engineers watching Stuart Charlton’s Kubernetes webinar wrote about it:

“Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive” is a must see webinar. Once done take a break and then watch it again, let it sink in and then sign-up for a free account with Azure or GCP and practice all that was learned during the webinar.

At the end of this exercise … one will begin to understand why the networking domain seems to be lagging behind … This webinar will help one pick up the pace!

Feedback: Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive

Here’s what one of the engineers watching Stuart Charlton’s Kubernetes webinar wrote about it:

“Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive” is a must see webinar. Once done take a break and then watch it again, let it sink in and then sign-up for a free account with Azure or GCP and practice all that was learned during the webinar.

At the end of this exercise … one will begin to understand why the networking domain seems to be lagging behind … This webinar will help one pick up the pace!

How to Make Money Selling Sneakers

If there is one thing that has managed to up the game in selling and buying it’s the sneaker bots. Sneaker bots are software that let you buy designer sneakers as soon as they are released in the market and sneakers rare and hard to find. The sneaker selling business is booming, mainly because the young generation would instead buy sneakers off a reliable market. 

The question arises, how can you make money selling sneakers? If brands are selling their sneakers at fill prices, how can you, an independent business, make money selling them? The answer to this simple query is sneaker bots. Sneaker bots help provide the customer with a place where they can go online and get rare and collectable sneakers at an affordable and profitable rate to you as a business owner. 

How to Make Money Selling Sneakers

To understand how you can make money selling sneakers, it is necessary to see the different sneaker bots that may help you get there. Here are a few of the most famous bots that can work in your favour if you are a new business looking to venture into the word of selling new and rare sneakers. Continue reading

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