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01/30/2024

KU044: Making Kubernetes And Cloud-Native Workloads Environmentally Sustainable

Can clouds be green? Today we discuss sustainability in the tech industry, focusing on running Kubernetes and workloads in more efficient and environmentally friendly ways.

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Can clouds be green? Today we discuss sustainability in the tech industry, focusing on running Kubernetes and workloads in more efficient and environmentally friendly ways.

01/30/2024

Latest Podcast D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead

Today's Day Two Cloud explores platform engineering. We talk about how to balance the needs of infrastructure engineers and developers, how to shift to a delivery model, and how to account for human personalities and operational processes in your platform. Tools and tech are essential, but you also have to consider and incorporate the non-tech stuff.

The post D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead appeared first on Packet Pushers .

Today's Day Two Cloud explores platform engineering. We talk about how to balance the needs of infrastructure engineers and developers, how to shift to a delivery model, and how to account for human personalities and operational processes in your platform. Tools and tech are essential, but you also....

01/30/2024

New Podcast on HN715: Prescribing The Right Dose Of Automation For A Hospital Network

We talk with network architects and engineers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital about their automation strategy for mission-critical networks that support patient care. We explore the automation progress they've made, long-term goals, technical and cultural challenges, what they'd like to see from vendors, and more.

The post HN715: Prescribing The Right Dose Of Automation For A Hospital Network appeared first on Packet Pushers .

We talk with network architects and engineers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital about their automation strategy for mission-critical networks that support patient care. We explore the automation progress they've made, long-term goals, technical and cultural challenges, what they'd like to see from ve...

01/29/2024

Tech Bytes: Building An Automation-Ready Service Catalog With NetOrca (Sponsored)

Let’s say you’ve built a set of automations for your network infrastructure, and now you want teams or departments within your organization to use those automations. Our Tech Bytes sponsor NetOrca offers a service catalog that provides a simple front-end to make it easy for internal customers to come and consume those capabilities you’ve worked... Read more »

Let’s say you’ve built a set of automations for your network infrastructure, and now you want teams or departments within your organization to use those automations. Our Tech Bytes sponsor NetOrca offers a service catalog that provides a simple front-end to make it easy for internal customers to...

01/29/2024

NB464: Juniper Begins AI Push Into The Data Center; VMware Customers Confront Higher Prices

This week we discuss new products from Juniper including synthetic testing software for its Mist wireless networks and its first step toward integrating its Apstra data center software with AI. VMware clarifies its product strategy as customers face rising prices, and undersea cables in the Red Sea face potential threats. Nokia and Chinese mobile device... Read more »

This week we examine new products from Juniper including synthetic testing software for its Mist wireless networks and its first step toward integrating its Apstra data center software with AI. VMware clarifies its product strategy as customers face rising prices, and undersea cables in the Red Sea....

01/26/2024

New Post on Packet Pushers: Can We Troubleshoot IT’s Public Image?

This post originally appeared in Human Infrastructure, a free weekly newsletter that gathers the best tech blogs and other interesting reads into one email. You can subscribe here. We IT workers have a reputation as a thorny bunch. Stereotypes say we are insular, odd, anti-social, dismissive, condescending, and so on. Our representation in media has... Read more »

Blog > Opinion | January 26, 2024 TAGS: career | IT Can We Troubleshoot IT’s Public Image? Bob Wildauer This post originally appeared in Human Infrastructure, a free weekly newsletter that gathers the best tech blogs and other interesting reads into one email. You can subscribe here. We IT w...

01/26/2024

New Podcast on HN718: Prisma SASE Gets Clever With TCP For Better App And User Experiences (Sponsored)

Remote and hybrid work means network engineers have to grapple with lossy residential networks such as home wireless that your work-from-home folks are using to access company resources. Their Wi-Fi sucks, and so their use of corporate resources sucks. Sure, you’ve got them plumbed into a SASE fabric, but that doesn’t fix their user experience... Read more »

Today on Heavy Networking we talk with sponsor Palo Alto Networks about network tech in its Prisma SASE offering that can help with the lossy home networks in ways that CDNs and adding new PoPs won’t fix. We'll dive into different approaches to WAN and TCP optimization, plus a couple of other uniq...

01/25/2024

IPB143: Are We Stuck With Dual-Stack Forever?

These days, most network devices can speak both IPv4 and IPv6. A dual-stack approach can smooth the transition from one protocol to the other because organizations can get comfortable with IPv6 without having to make a hard cutover. However, they may get so comfortable that they never fully commit. In this episode Ed, Scott, and... Read more »

An IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack approach can smooth the transition from one protocol to the other because organizations can get comfortable with IPv6 without having to make a hard cutover. However, they may get so comfortable that they never fully commit. Are we stuck with dual-stack forever?

01/24/2024

Latest Podcast D2C230: Adding Python To Your Operations Toolkit

Today we’re talking about Python. If you’re new to Python and want to add it to your toolkit, this is the show for you. This episode offers a broad perspective on all the approaches and plug-ins that Python includes. Our guest Michael Kennedy is a Python enthusiast and Python instructor. We discuss: Why you should... Read more »

Today we're talking about Python. If you're new to Python and want to add it to your toolkit, this is the show for you. This episode offers a broad perspective on all the approaches and plug-ins that Python includes. Python instructor Michael Kennedy joins us to talk about why Python, how to get sta...

01/24/2024

New Post on Packet Pushers: Meet FullCtl: For All Your IXP & BGP Peering Automation Needs

The Packet Pushers recently had a briefing with Chris Grundemann about startup FullCtl. FullCtl is all about network automation for internet exchanges, service providers, large enterprises, and anyone else looking for an easy button to manage BGP. FullCtl has several offerings, but two main products: peerCtl and ixCtl.

FullCtl is all about IXP & BGP peering automation for IXPs, SPs, large enterprises, and anyone else looking for an easy button to manage BGP.

01/23/2024

New Post on Packet Pushers: HPE And Juniper Wi-Fi Market Share By The Numbers

The industry is still digesting HPE’s $14 billion acquisition bid for Juniper Networks. One big question is what HPE will do once it owns two wireless networking products: the popular and widely deployed Aruba, and the AI-powered and market-grabbing Mist. I reached out to the Dell’Oro Group to get some market share numbers on each... Read more »

Blog > News & Analysis | January 23, 2024 TAGS: AI | Wi-Fi | wireless HPE And Juniper Wi-Fi Market Share By The Numbers Drew Conry-Murray The industry is still digesting HPE’s $14 billion acquisition bid for Juniper Networks. One big question is what HPE will do once it owns two wireless net...

01/22/2024

Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Optimizes Dynamic Content And User Experience With App Acceleration (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about accelerating dynamic content to improve application performance and the user experience. The increase of remote and hybrid workers, and more applications being delivered from the cloud, can complicate IT’s efforts to measure and improve application performance. Today’s sponsor, Palo Alto Networks, shares its approach to accelerating... Read more »

Today's Tech Bytes podcast examines accelerating dynamic content to improve application performance and the user experience. Our sponsor, Palo Alto Networks, shares its approach to accelerating dynamic content via its Prisma Access service.

01/22/2024

NB463: Cisco Buys eBPF Startup For Cloud-Native Networking; Garter Forecasts $5 Trillion In IT Spending

This week’s Network Break examines why Cisco bought eBPF startup Isovalent (hint: it’s about cloud-native networking), why Broadcom is cranking up pressure on VMware resellers and customers (hint: it’s about money), and why Google Cloud is sort of dropping fees for customers who want to exit the cloud (hint: it’s about getting out ahead of... Read more »

Network Break > Ep. 463 | January 22, 2024 NB463: Cisco Buys eBPF Startup For Cloud-Native Networking; Garter Forecasts $5 Trillion In IT Spending https://media.blubrry.com/packetpushers/media.blubrry.com/2665832/ins.blubrry.com/2665832/NB_463_Cisco_Buys_eBPF_Startup_For_Cloud-Native_Networking_G...

01/19/2024

New Podcast on HN717: Network Source(s) Of Truth – A Roundtable Discussion

On today’s episode, we discuss networking sources of truth. That’s right, sources of truth, because you’re likely to have more than one depending on your environment and your point of view. On LinkedIn, Ethan quoted someone at the AutoCon0 conference who essentially said that the network itself shouldn’t be used as a source of truth.... Read more »

On today's show we've assembled a group of network pros to examine what we mean by network sources of truth (there's more than one for sure), how those sources of truth tie into automation efforts, and how to narrow the gap between an operator's intended state of the network vs. how it actually is.

01/18/2024

KU046: Do Kubernetes Certs Prepare You For Real-World Production?

Technical trainer Benjamin Muschko joins hosts Kristina Devochko and Michael Levan to discuss the gap between Kubernetes certifications and real-world production skills. All three critique the focus on command-line proficiency in certifications, advocating for a practical approach that tests real-life scenarios. Muschko proposes a “capture the flag” style exam with hands-on projects, while the hosts... Read more »

Technical trainer Benjamin Muschko joins the show to discuss the gap between Kubernetes certifications and real-world production skills.

01/17/2024

New Post on Packet Pushers: Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) Explained

Let’s dive into what IDPs are, why they exist, and get a few suggestions for IDPs you can use in your environment, including instructions for installing the open-source Backstage IDP.

Let’s dive into what IDPs are, why they exist, and get a few suggestions for IDPs you can use in your environment, including instructions for installing the open-source Backstage IDP.

01/17/2024

Latest Podcast D2C229: Standing Out From The Crowd With Tim Banks

We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, finding your blind spots, diversity in tech (or lack thereof), and more. Let’s get into all the things with Tim! Episode Guest: Tim Banks | Lead Developer Advocate at Dell... Read more »

We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, finding your blind spots, diversity in tech, and more. Let's get into all the things with Tim!

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