Reality is single device failures bring down large chunks of the net including valuable peers of your "enterprise datacenter"
Of course, sometimes identical cisco models used in redundant tuples also cause outages together after upgrade by common bug that didn't show up in test
so pontificate all you want, you're vulnerable to a lot of bad things
(1) I guarantee if you emailed that explanation to a DC manager you'd be shitcanned. I agree that we are all vulnerable to bad things, but avoidance of a single point of failure device in the DC like op highlights is network ops 101 stuff.
(2) Show me a datacenter that's an all cisco shop. Most are whitebox/greybox now. Welcome to the 21st century. Most "big-data" shops have firmware experts who know their hardware down to the MMU register level and order stuff directly from places like Taiwan with nary a CCIE to be found in corporate ranks.
If a single device brings down your entire data center, you've got design problems and your architect should be fired or retrained. These days everything is redundant in triplicate at minimum and new devices spin up automatically based on automatic provisioning and chef/puppet type setups. Even if your core router (why would you have just one!?!?!?!) shits the bed and resets to factory defaults with VLAN 1 and basic STP with no routing interfaces configured, if your NOC folks did a good job, a proper MSTP / VRF / TRILL / SDN ( OpenFlow, etc) / etc like setup should route around that shit and QA will have already tested the "core clos spine device reboots to factory defaults" test case at which point you have just another device for a low paid lackey to swap out based on your network monitor going yellow.
If you work in a Fortune 500 datacenter and you can't handle this sort of outage, get the fuck out. You're the reason shit's going downhill. Also if a Cisco 3650 or 3850 bring down your datacenter, see previous negative asshole sentiment or get a new job if your manager is responsible for the confines of such a clusterfuck. No participation trophy for such asshattery.
Assuming the "Internet of things" is not just a hollow buzzword, do you see Linux dominating IoT's projected explosive growth, forever entrenching Linux as the #1 choice for embedded eons to come?
PS: To me, IoT just represents embedded stuff that connects to the internet in trendy ways marketers haven't over-saturated yet with hip commercials and cheap-labor produced widgets.. "things" sells better to the unwashed, so meh
10 years ago this story would have had over 1k comments. Now people just say meh. Collective apathy or mental resignation to the topic coupled with a demoralizing feeling of helplessness....it's been 1984 for a long time now.
Awesome to meet somebody else in the space, it is a fun place to be in. I'm mostly a DevOps guy now (I know --- buzzwords blah blah), but if a tough support call comes in, typically I spend my time in the run-time analysis side explaining "why is this packet being dropped from this queue" or "why did our convergence algorithm pick this path". Say a big data center customer calls and says "such and such is getting dropped on the 40G QSFP links during congestion, please explain your bug". Then that turns into a large discussion about how to configure COS queues properly and some education about xyz configuration spaces with the various protocols, followed by an update to our documentation if it's sparse in that particular implementation scenario or a white paper specific to their topology and common traffic profiles (tier 1 ISPs usually).
I agree. After I first saw the movie, all I could focus on was the destination and not the journey. I obsessed with things like the Riemann Hypothesis and the Poincare Conjecture. After reading Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen, a great book about how Gregory Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, it helped shape my perspective in life about what awards, honors, and all that junk really mean and how that stack up relative to the actual desire to do what one desires. Reading that Perelman wouldn't even answer the phone or accept the Fields medal from the committee was very inspiring and a lesson on humility and what it really means to be curious for the sake of curiosity rather than success or money.
I'm still a software engineer for a major Fortune 500 semiconductor company. I assist the network protocol teams with the mathematics behind various protocols and RFCs along the lines of things like WRED, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF (think route convergence, etc). I saw the film about 8 years ago, and later on switched my major from physics to math and haven't looked backed since. Thanks for inquiring!
Historical inaccuracies aside, the movie A Beautiful Mind inspired me to pursue and receive my B.S. in Mathematics which resulted in a very lucrative and satisfactory career. My thanks go out to Dr. Nash and my condolences go out to his family.
Find a few local recruiters, make friends with them and touch base every year. When they get tired of your coy nature, rinse and repeat. They need your money and will hang on long enough that if you do ever get laid off, you have at least one starting point. Saved me once.
In the US, you pay taxes on just owning property, even if you are just holding it and have no expected profit. GP is saying same reasoning could be applied to those trying to codify IP as true 'property' to mitigate the propensity to classify it as such.
It's amazing that our tax dollars pay for the equipment to be bought on DOD contracts on the federal level, and then our state tax dollars turn around to pay for it a second time. What a complete fucking sham.
You know there is a used market right? Craigslist? Autotrader? Etc. Why pay book value for new models when the 3 year old model will last you as long...
It's called paraphrasing, and it's a common form. By condoning the current NSA you are in fact giving up essential liberty in exchange for a little temporary safety. I'm glad that you can recognize a founding father quote. It's a shame you don't adhere to its ruminations.
The full inclusion of all qualifiers does not strengthen your argument. Try again with a valid rebuttal.
Oh no, no, no! I am not trying to convince you that "freedom is worthless," but rather am pointing out that you have no useful idea about how your freedom was gained, maintained, and what is needed in the future to ensure it. Your little crack about "North Korea" is only further demonstration of that. In fact that might even suggest that you don't really understand your freedoms, let alone the Constitution.
If you are confusing what goes on in North Korea with what goes on in the US you are badly uninformed indeed.
Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. You are obviously one of those.
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Reality is single device failures bring down large chunks of the net including valuable peers of your "enterprise datacenter"
Of course, sometimes identical cisco models used in redundant tuples also cause outages together after upgrade by common bug that didn't show up in test
so pontificate all you want, you're vulnerable to a lot of bad things
(1) I guarantee if you emailed that explanation to a DC manager you'd be shitcanned. I agree that we are all vulnerable to bad things, but avoidance of a single point of failure device in the DC like op highlights is network ops 101 stuff.
(2) Show me a datacenter that's an all cisco shop. Most are whitebox/greybox now. Welcome to the 21st century. Most "big-data" shops have firmware experts who know their hardware down to the MMU register level and order stuff directly from places like Taiwan with nary a CCIE to be found in corporate ranks.
If a single device brings down your entire data center, you've got design problems and your architect should be fired or retrained. These days everything is redundant in triplicate at minimum and new devices spin up automatically based on automatic provisioning and chef/puppet type setups. Even if your core router (why would you have just one!?!?!?!) shits the bed and resets to factory defaults with VLAN 1 and basic STP with no routing interfaces configured, if your NOC folks did a good job, a proper MSTP / VRF / TRILL / SDN ( OpenFlow, etc) / etc like setup should route around that shit and QA will have already tested the "core clos spine device reboots to factory defaults" test case at which point you have just another device for a low paid lackey to swap out based on your network monitor going yellow.
If you work in a Fortune 500 datacenter and you can't handle this sort of outage, get the fuck out. You're the reason shit's going downhill. Also if a Cisco 3650 or 3850 bring down your datacenter, see previous negative asshole sentiment or get a new job if your manager is responsible for the confines of such a clusterfuck. No participation trophy for such asshattery.
+5 Experience. How much you wanna bet the userbase today doesn't even get the joke.
What the fuck are people afraid of? Robot cooties?
Assuming the "Internet of things" is not just a hollow buzzword, do you see Linux dominating IoT's projected explosive growth, forever entrenching Linux as the #1 choice for embedded eons to come?
PS: To me, IoT just represents embedded stuff that connects to the internet in trendy ways marketers haven't over-saturated yet with hip commercials and cheap-labor produced widgets.. "things" sells better to the unwashed, so meh
And get replaced. Try again.
10 years ago this story would have had over 1k comments. Now people just say meh. Collective apathy or mental resignation to the topic coupled with a demoralizing feeling of helplessness....it's been 1984 for a long time now.
Awesome to meet somebody else in the space, it is a fun place to be in. I'm mostly a DevOps guy now (I know --- buzzwords blah blah), but if a tough support call comes in, typically I spend my time in the run-time analysis side explaining "why is this packet being dropped from this queue" or "why did our convergence algorithm pick this path". Say a big data center customer calls and says "such and such is getting dropped on the 40G QSFP links during congestion, please explain your bug". Then that turns into a large discussion about how to configure COS queues properly and some education about xyz configuration spaces with the various protocols, followed by an update to our documentation if it's sparse in that particular implementation scenario or a white paper specific to their topology and common traffic profiles (tier 1 ISPs usually).
I agree. After I first saw the movie, all I could focus on was the destination and not the journey. I obsessed with things like the Riemann Hypothesis and the Poincare Conjecture. After reading Perfect Rigor by Masha Gessen, a great book about how Gregory Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, it helped shape my perspective in life about what awards, honors, and all that junk really mean and how that stack up relative to the actual desire to do what one desires. Reading that Perelman wouldn't even answer the phone or accept the Fields medal from the committee was very inspiring and a lesson on humility and what it really means to be curious for the sake of curiosity rather than success or money.
I'm still a software engineer for a major Fortune 500 semiconductor company. I assist the network protocol teams with the mathematics behind various protocols and RFCs along the lines of things like WRED, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF (think route convergence, etc). I saw the film about 8 years ago, and later on switched my major from physics to math and haven't looked backed since. Thanks for inquiring!
Historical inaccuracies aside, the movie A Beautiful Mind inspired me to pursue and receive my B.S. in Mathematics which resulted in a very lucrative and satisfactory career. My thanks go out to Dr. Nash and my condolences go out to his family.
Find a few local recruiters, make friends with them and touch base every year. When they get tired of your coy nature, rinse and repeat. They need your money and will hang on long enough that if you do ever get laid off, you have at least one starting point. Saved me once.
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In the US, you pay taxes on just owning property, even if you are just holding it and have no expected profit. GP is saying same reasoning could be applied to those trying to codify IP as true 'property' to mitigate the propensity to classify it as such.
It's amazing that our tax dollars pay for the equipment to be bought on DOD contracts on the federal level, and then our state tax dollars turn around to pay for it a second time. What a complete fucking sham.
Tell it two girls, one cup. Wonder if it would become sentient just to subsequently kill itself.
People's ingenuity and tenacity to game the system never fails to amaze me.
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THIS! READ IT! That is all.
You know there is a used market right? Craigslist? Autotrader? Etc. Why pay book value for new models when the 3 year old model will last you as long ...
Hey US, IN SOVIET RUSSIA ROCKET LAUNCH YOU. Sincerely, US citizens for restoring manned American space exploration.
Dipshit,
It's called paraphrasing, and it's a common form. By condoning the current NSA you are in fact giving up essential liberty in exchange for a little temporary safety. I'm glad that you can recognize a founding father quote. It's a shame you don't adhere to its ruminations.
The full inclusion of all qualifiers does not strengthen your argument. Try again with a valid rebuttal.
Oh no, no, no! I am not trying to convince you that "freedom is worthless," but rather am pointing out that you have no useful idea about how your freedom was gained, maintained, and what is needed in the future to ensure it. Your little crack about "North Korea" is only further demonstration of that. In fact that might even suggest that you don't really understand your freedoms, let alone the Constitution.
If you are confusing what goes on in North Korea with what goes on in the US you are badly uninformed indeed.
Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. You are obviously one of those.