Scott Lowe

JUNE 10, 2013

A little while ago Steve Beaver wrote a post titled “Is Automation Killing The Engineering?” ” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. Is automation killing engineering? Codify your existing engineering knowledge.

Engineering 60

Engineering Data Center Meeting Tools 60

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I lead Oracle Communications Applications Product Management and Engineering. I’ve been in the communications industry for over two decades, leading strategy, solution consulting and software engineering, to deliver core business and operational systems. Azhar Mirza. external_url. Shopping Cart API. Product Order.

Oracle 130

Oracle Agile Architecture Applications 130

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Engin Diri’s article on continuous cluster audit scanning with Trivy is a “two-for-one” article: you get to see some Pulumi YAML to create a Kubernetes cluster on Civo, and you get to see writing policies for the Trivy Operator. Operating Systems/Applications. Curious about what a JWT is? Virtualization.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

Cloud 98

Cloud How To Open Source Applications 98

SecureWorld News

APRIL 21, 2023

According to a recent blog post : "Operation DreamJob is the name for a series of campaigns where the group uses social engineering techniques to compromise its targets, with fake job offers as the lure. When Linux systems are attacked, the targets are almost exclusively servers and the cloud.

Malware 68

Malware Linux .Net System 68

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. Cool to see Koyeb release a Pulumi provider, so that you can use Pulumi programs to interact with Koyeb.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I really enjoyed David Gee’s series on the network automation engineer persona ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). David really unpacks the changes that are happening in the networking space and describes the key skills the “next-generation network engineer” will have. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

If I had one criticism, it would be Chip’s use of “programming language” instead of DSL for Rego—but that’s truly nitpicking what otherwise is a very useful article for folks trying to determine which policy engine they should consider and evaluate. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full-stack engineer. IT folks don’t need to be strictly involved in software engineering to benefit from a journey toward a more full-stack role. Safari Books Online. blog/videos-around-world-2015.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full-stack engineer. IT folks don’t need to be strictly involved in software engineering to benefit from a journey toward a more full-stack role. Safari Books Online. blog/videos-around-world-2015.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Whether companies are pursuing space ventures of their own or maturing cutting-edge systems to one day offer a new service to NASA, the agency is dedicated to helping bring new capabilities to market for our mutual benefit.”. Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va., Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va.,

Research 123

Research System Development Energy 123

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA. Lorie, G.F.

Operating Systems 144

Operating Systems Conference Survey System 144

Dataconomy

JANUARY 15, 2024

In collaboration with Teenage Engineering, the device has been crafted to resemble a walkie-talkie, complete with a vivid orange color, enhancing its retro appeal. It also boasts 4GB of memory, 128GB of storage, and operates on a 2.3GHz MediaTek processor. inch touchscreen.

Internet 48

Internet Transportation Operating Systems Storage 48

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Software Vulnerabilities Exploiting software vulnerabilities is one of the most common ways that hackers penetrate systems.

System 40

System Malware How To Engineering 40

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. I referenced part 1 of Ajay Chenampara’s series on the Ansible network-engine command parser back in Technology Short Take 102 (July of last year). VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Operating Systems/Applications.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Instead, Apple’s engineers set out to design an operating environment that was tailored to the form factor. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

While large and active Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gangs like Conti, LockBit, and BlackCat always make headlines with their operations, it's important to learn about smaller ransomware families, as they can provide insight and help us understand more about cybercrime gangs as a whole. The report was published on June 7, 2022.

Healthcare 74

Healthcare Fractional CTO Backup Government 74

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Airbnb is one company using AI to optimize pricing on AWS, utilizing AI to manage capacity, to build custom cost and usage data tools, and to optimize storage and computing capacity. Cloud pricing optimization Organizations are leaning on AI to help reduce cloud costs and to find cost-effective solutions for running cloud applications.

Enterprise 141

Enterprise Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Financial 141

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

If you’re unfamiliar with SSH SOCKS proxying, read this to get up to speed (or use your favorite web search engine, there are many articles out there on this topic). Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. Version 3.8.0 Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Justin Pietsch Has a lengthy article on why network engineers need to focus on getting the network out of the way. Kaizhe Huang examines Falco versus AuditD from a host intrusion detection system (HIDS) perspective. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 60

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

That goes especially for the interaction between applications and storage engines, and between applications and databases. Whether in-the-cloud or on-premise there is a shift to a model where individual applications need to protect themselves instead of relying on firewall-like techniques. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

Firewall 83

Firewall CTO Operating Systems Applications 83

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. This post outlines some recent gVisor improvements in file system performance. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165!

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

If I had one criticism, it would be Chip’s use of “programming language” instead of DSL for Rego—but that’s truly nitpicking what otherwise is a very useful article for folks trying to determine which policy engine they should consider and evaluate. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. Operating Systems/Applications. So, I decided to publish on Monday instead of waiting for Friday.).

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, etc. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. used across a variety of programs/languages.

Course 104

Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Daniel Steinberg takes a look inside Firefox’s DOH (DNS over HTTPS) engine , slated to be included in the Firefox 62 release. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 to v2.0 , and some of the skillsets he believes network engineers must embrace moving forward. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Miguel Gómez of Telefónica Engineering discusses maximizing performance in VXLAN overlay networks. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 to v2.0 , and some of the skillsets he believes network engineers must embrace moving forward. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

government, and AG Bill Barr: "I am confident that our world-class technology companies can engineer secure products that protect user information and allow for lawful access.". On one side, there is the U.S. On the other side are cybersecurity thought leaders, like Bruce Schneier.

Security 63

Security Government Storage Data 63

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. This is a Azure-specific tool that enables you to do things like install Docker Engine, deploy containers, configure TLS certificates, etc., Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

David Gee’s “network automation engineer persona” content continues; this time he tackles some thoughts around proof-of-concepts (PoCs). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Next, here’s an announcement on the certification of PKS (Pivotal Container Service).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet. Operating Systems/Applications. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The recent announcement of their GraphQL-based Network Query Engine (NQE)—more information is available in this blog post —is also pretty interesting to me. Operating Systems/Applications. Fast-forward to this year, and the company announces support for NSX and (more recently) support for Cisco ACI. Servers/Hardware.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I particularly liked his (mini-)rant about how network automation can’t be only about making the network engineer’s life easier. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. This checklist is described as a “senior engineer’s checklist,” but it seems to be pretty applicable to most technology jobs these days. Are you a (largely non-technical) manager seeking to better understand Kubernetes? (I’d Perhaps this article can help. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60