I got a question along these lines from a friend of mine:
Google recently announced a huge data center build in country to open new GCP regions. Does that mean I should invest into mastering GCP or should I focus on some other public cloud platform?
As always, the right answer is “it depends”, for example:
It’s time to have a look at some Network Automation tools. Today I want to introduce you to Vrnetlab, great piece of software that allows you to run virtual routers inside Docker containers. We’ll talk about what Vrnetlab does and what are its selling points. Then we’ll see how to bring up lab devices by hand and how to use them.
Vrnetlab provides convenient way of building virtualized network environments by leveraging existing Docker ecosystem.
This means that you can take image of virtual appliance provided by the vendor and use Vrnetlab to create containers for it. The selling point here is that the whole tool-chain was created with automation in mind, that is you can build your network automation CI pipeline on top of Vrnetlab and no human is needed to spin up the environment, and run Continue reading
Virtual private networks (VPNs) provide security when remote workers access corporate networks, but they’re notoriously slow. Backhauling all traffic for all remote users through the corporate data center just isn’t practical when work from home really starts to scale. Fortunately, VPNs can be configured to operate in more than one way.
Today, most organizations—regardless of size—use some combination of on-premises and public cloud computing. This means that some requests need to go to one or more corporate data centers, while some need to find their way to the Internet.
Traditional VPNs send all requests—both corporate-bound and Internet-bound—through the corporate network because that’s where the corporate information security defenses are located. Today, this approach is causing significant performance problems.
The most popular traditional solution to the problem of VPN performance problems was to just buy a bigger router or firewall. The overhead of the VPN tunnel on throughput isn’t that large, and many traditional corporate applications weren’t latency sensitive. This meant that performance problems usually occurred because the device where the VPNs terminated—the router or firewall—just didn’t have enough processing power to handle the required number of concurrent sessions at the current level of throughput usage.
Times have changed, Continue reading
Some words mean different things to different IT disciplines. And tech vendors often twist the meaning of technical terms to suit their own purposes. On today's Day Two Cloud, guest Karen Lopez helps us sort out the semantics of IT language and discusses why accuracy matters.
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Chris Romeo is a famous application security expert who has spent the last several years building a consulting and training company called Security Journey. Chris joins Tom and Russ to talk about the state of security and what network engineers need to know about security from an application perspective.
The long standing tradition of having a secure network perimeter and a lightly protected interior has been going by the wayside for quite some time now. But the introduction of new models of connectivity are forcing us to change the way we look at security all together and invent whole new models for protecting our networks. In today’s episode we’re going to be exploring how these changes are impacting security and talk about some of these new models that meet the needs of modern networks.
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The Internet Society 2020 Chapterthon is live and moving fast! We’re so excited to see the applications that have already ticked in.
What is Chapterthon?
Chapterthon is an opportunity for Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to engage their members in a worldwide Internet Society competition. Out of dozens of applicants, one Chapterthon winner is selected and awarded prize money. But the real winner is the global community, who benefit from projects that help people connect to the Internet and help them do it securely.
This year is different – one that’s been full of difficulties, but also tenacity, creativity, and uplift. So we’re doing Chapterthon a little differently, too. We’re dedicating it to the people and the medium helping us through.
Internet Society Chapters and SIGs have developed innovative solutions to help their communities through COVID-19. We want to shine a light on their work and make sure it becomes a resource for all. So we’re asking Chapterthon participants to submit tutorials and manuals for their creative and impactful projects. These blueprints will become part of the “I Heart the Internet Knowledge Hub,” a resource for peers and partners around the world to broaden the Continue reading
Virtual Open Office is a chance for people to gather and discuss any topics you find interesting. Open to Anyone. No cost or commitment. I’ll be there with a coffee/tea or a beer/cocktail (as appropriate) Tuesday, Aug 25, 1000BST/0900UTC intended for European, Australia/Oceania and East Asian Friday, Aug 28 2000BST/1900UTC which might suit people in […]
I’m happy to announce several updates to the Workers Docs that will allow you to take full advantage of our Workers platform. We integrated your feedback about the Docs user experience and design. We reorganized and reformatted all of our content. We upgraded the Docs engine to add new UI components. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate and the content is now easy and enjoyable to read.
You can find our new and improved documentation site here and can find the docs engine on our repo.
We hope this creates a better developer experience for you and makes the Docs more approachable to beginners. We plan to use our work and improvements for the Workers Docs to revamp docs for other Cloudflare products too.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown of the Workers Docs update.
Content Organization: We reorganized site content into four categories to make it easier for you to read and find content: Tutorials, How-to guides, Technical reference, and Learning. The new content structure is heavily inspired by Divio’s documentation system.
The tutorials section groups together step by step guides for building a specific project on Workers (e.g. teaching a beginner how to cook). The how-to guides Continue reading
Your bio says "words are mine" but your feed has company content all over it.
Brett Lykins published an excellent description of what an automation Minimum Viable Product could be.
Not surprisingly, he’s almost perfectly in sync with what we’ve been telling networking engineers in ipSpace.net Network Automation online course:
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done by Cavium, which it acquired, and Broadcom, which sold its “Vulcan” design to Cavium when it exited the business, has been the most successful in terms of shipments and ecosystem. …
Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and software that helped to get more performance into the hands into increasing numbers of people. …
Building A Better Machine For An AI World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.