Guide to Facebook’s Open Source Data Center Hardware
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APRIL 28, 2016
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OCP Launches Marketplace for Open Source Data Center Hardware
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MARCH 8, 2017
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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 10, 2024
With the potential to incur high compute, storage, and data transfer fees running LLMs in a public cloud, the corporate datacenter has emerged as a sound option for controlling costs. Because LLMs consume significant computational resources as model parameters expand, consideration of where to allocate GenAI workloads is paramount.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 15, 2024
Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi.
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Cheap Ways To Connect Data Centers
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 6, 2017
The social networking giant Facebook has a data center problem that probably looks very much like the challenges that you are currently facing. Facebook’s goal in developing Voyager is to get hardware companies to build and sell the device while at the same time getting software companies to write software that can be used to manage it.
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Heck yeah! Facebook's Open Compute Project is making an open source switch
Virtualized Greek
MAY 9, 2013
Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would solicit input on an open source top-of-rack switch. Network SDN'
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Scientists share a wiring diagram tracing connections for 200,000 mouse brain cells
GeekWire
JULY 29, 2021
The data collection, which is now publicly available online , was developed as part of the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks program, or MICrONS for short. “The final step is to interpret this network, at which point we may be able to say we can read the brain’s program.”
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How MLOps Is Helping Overcome Machine Learning’s Biggest Challenges
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 25, 2022
These problems are exacerbated by a lack of hardware designed for ML use cases. Gartner reports, “86% of organizations identified at least one of the following areas as a weak link in their AI infrastructure stack: GPU processing, CPU processing, data storage, networking, resource sharing, or integrated development environments.”.
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Become More Data-Driven by Evolving Analytics Workloads
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 9, 2022
In the past, one option was to use open-source data analytics platforms to analyze data using on-premises infrastructure. Another option was to leverage the compute, storage and analytics services of public cloud providers. Data analytics is the key to unlocking the most value you can extract from data across your organization.
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Scott Lowe
MAY 27, 2022
Networking. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Servers/Hardware. now has a follow-up exploit that exposes Aruba and Avaya network switches to remote code execution. I certainly hope not! Kubernetes 1.24
Technology Short Take 143
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable.
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Technology Short Take #80
Scott Lowe
MARCH 23, 2017
Networking. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 27, 2023
I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.
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Bringing AI to your organization? Better bring the right database
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 7, 2023
And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®. The solution to a storage cost problem is not adding more storage; it’s finding ways to process your data in place. Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database that scales with performance and reliability better than any other.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. Seriously.). Yes, please. This was a pretty cool story.
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Technology Short Take #59
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
Networking. Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Using Python and Netmiko for network automation is the topic of this post by Colin McAlister.
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Technology Short Take 105
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Networking. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. This has generated a lot of discussion. Probably not.
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Technology Short Take 122
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Networking. Servers/Hardware. Ahmet Alp Balkan talks about how the Knative Serving component addresses some key networking challenges within Kubernetes. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general.
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Technology Short Take #37
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.
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IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. This involves work in libvirt as well as OpenStack, so that OpenStack can be aware of CPU functionality (which, in turn, might allow cloud providers to charge extra for “premium images” that offer encryption support in hardware).
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Networking. Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Virtualization.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 2, 2020
Networking. 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. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling.
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 11, 2016
In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Networking. Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network).
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Servers/Hardware.
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Servers/Hardware.
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9 most in-demand IT jobs in manufacturing
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The demand for software in manufacturing has only increased, as nearly every piece of equipment or hardware is now connected to the internet in some form — and this has also increased the demand for software engineers. Software engineer.
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 24, 2020
I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Networking. Andreas Wittig takes a look at some advanced AWS networking pitfalls to avoid. Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy.
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 15, 2022
Networking. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware.
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Technology Short Take #59
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
Networking. Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Using Python and Netmiko for network automation is the topic of this post by Colin McAlister.
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Servers/Hardware. Per the README.md
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IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Bryant then introduces Karl Triebes, EVP and CTO of F5 Networks, who takes the stage to talk about FPGAs in F5 and how the joint Xeon/FPGA integrated solution from Intel plays into that role. F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Networking. Ajay Chenampara has some observations about running Ansible at scale against network devices. Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around!
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Networking. This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Matt also recently posted part 4 (of 5) in his series on SDN protocols; this post covers OpFlex and declarative networking. Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 19, 2019
Networking. Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host.
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Scott Lowe
JULY 5, 2019
Networking. Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Networking. Brian Linkletter has a post on how to run the Antidote network emulator on KVM for better performance. Antidote, as I understand it, is the network emulator that runs the labs on the NRELabs web site (which is another cool thing in and of itself). Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
MARCH 1, 2019
Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. The network isn’t going away, it’s just changing. 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). Servers/Hardware.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Networking. Matt Oswalt tackles the idea of “intent-driven” or “intent-based” networking—all the rage right now—and outlines how something like this must interact with domains outside of networking in order to be effective. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around (sorry!).
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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World
Galido
APRIL 27, 2020
For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Scalability and modularity.
Technology Short Take #82
Scott Lowe
MAY 4, 2017
Networking. There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. If you’re just starting your network automation journey, start small.
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Tulane University SoPA Selects "Architechting Cloud Computing Solutions"
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
Jackson and Scott Goessling was selected for use by the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Applied Computing Systems & Technology Program as the textbook for their mandatory Enterprise Architecture - Hardware course starting Spring Semester 2019. I am proud and honored to be trusted by such a prestigious institution.
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Scott Lowe
MAY 3, 2019
Networking. Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Servers/Hardware.
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