HOW VERIZON AND A BGP OPTIMIZER KNOCKED LARGE PARTS OF THE INTERNET OFFLINE TODAY
Today at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider. This was the equivalent of Waze routing an entire freeway down a neighborhood street — resulting in many websites on Cloudflare, and many other providers, to be unavailable from large parts of the Internet.
Read moreAWS CONTROL TOWER – SET UP & GOVERN A MULTI-ACCOUNT AWS ENVIRONMENT
Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up a secure environment for teams to provision development and production accounts in alignment with our recommendations and best practices.
Read moreGITLAB 12.0 RELEASED WITH VISUAL REVIEWS AND DEPENDENCY LIST
GitLab 12.0 marks a key step in our journey to create an inclusive approach to DevSecOps, empowering ‘everyone to contribute’. For the past year, we’ve been on an amazing journey, collaborating and creating a solution that brings teams together. There have been thousands of community contributions making GitLab more lovable. We believe everyone can contribute, and weâve enabled cross-team collaboration, faster delivery of great code, and bringing together Dev, Ops, and Security. GitLab review applications are a fantastic tool to enable stakeholders from Operations to QA to business owners to evaluate and approve application changes before production. In GitLab 12.0, we make it easy to provide visual feedback directly from the review app.
Read moreAWS SECURITY HUB NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE
I’m a developer, or at least that’s what I tell myself while coming to terms with being a manager. I’m definitely not an infosec expert. I’ve been paged more than once in my career because something I wrote or configured caused a security concern. When systems enable frequent deploys and remove gatekeepers for experimentation, sometimes a non-compliant resource is going to sneak by. That’s why I love tools like AWS Security Hub, a service that enables automated compliance checks and aggregated insights from a variety of services. With guardrails like these in place to make sure things stay on track, I can experiment more confidently.
Read moreAQR’S PROBLEM WITH MACHINE LEARNING: CATS MORPH INTO DOGS
Machine learning has done magic, such as beating human chess champions. But in finance, expectations for the technology may need to come down a notch or two, according to quantitative firm AQR. Machine learning changes the way problems are solved. Traditional computer programmers define all of the rules or parameters of a game. Machine-learning applications, in contrast, are fed data so they can then determine the rules and relationships. Sorting pictures of dogs from cats is a well-known example of machine learning in action.
Read moreHOW AI IS STARTING TO INFLUENCE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Machine learning and deep learning technologies are promising an end-to-end optimization of wireless networks while they commoditize PHY and signal-processing designs and help overcome RF complexities What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) technology arrives on wireless channels? For a start, AI promises to address the design complexity of radio frequency (RF) systems by employing powerful machine learning algorithms and significantly improving RF parameters such as channel bandwidth, antenna sensitivity and spectrum monitoring. So far, engineering efforts have been made for smartening individual components in wireless networks via technologies like cognitive radio.
Read morePREDICTIVE CPU ISOLATION OF CONTAINERS AT NETFLIX
Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible. If the container running on the core next to your container suddenly decides to fetch a lot of data from the RAM, it will inevitably result in more cache misses for you (and hence a potential performance degradation).
Read moreACCELERATING UBER’S SELF-DRIVING VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT WITH DATA
A key challenge faced by self-driving vehicles comes during interactions with pedestrians. In our development of self-driving vehicles, the Data Engineering and Data Science teams at Uber ATG (Advanced Technologies Group) contribute to the data processing and analysis that help make these interactions safe. Through data, we can learn the movement of cars and pedestrians in a city, and train our self-driving vehicles how to drive. We map pedestrian movement in cities with LiDAR-equipped cars, search video collected from the roads for interesting, real-life situations that can be used in model training, build and report on simulations, and test on both a closed track and real roads to reinforce our training. Figure 1.
Read moreSCALING ERLANG CLUSTER TO 10,000 NODES
Maxim Fedorov demonstrates an example of a live Erlang cluster being scaled from just a few nodes to 10,000 machines with no service interruption. Source: infoq.com
OPEN BANKING
Anca Zaharia and Jason Maude focus on the successes and pitfalls Starling Bank encountered in building Open Banking. They cover topics such as the OAuth security flow, the permissions-controlled API, obtaining permissions for third party actions, and verifying payees between banks. Source: infoq.com