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Episode 6 of the Full Stack Journey pauses the interviews to take a little time to review & reflect on the first five shows.

Today’s Priority Queue delves into the topic of hackathons at the IETF. Hackathons may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a body whose objective is to document specifications and standards, but hackathons play a role in the development of some standards.

Our guest is Charles Eckel, who works for Cisco’s DevNet team and chairs the IETF’s hackathon program. We talk about why the IETF engages in hackathons and what the organization means by ‘rough consensus, running code.’

Charles also discusses how the rise of open source enables groups like the IETF to not just produce documents, but also functioning code that implements a standard. By developing code, the IETF generates feedback that can be fed back into a draft, and can produce reference implementations to share with a broader audience. This can help drive standards adoption in the tech community.

This podcast was recorded on site at the IETF 98 conference in Chicago. Thanks to Huawei, which covered travel and accommodations to enable the Packet Pushers to attend and record some shows and spread the news about what the IETF is up to.

Episode #5 of the Full Stack Journey Podcast features Patrick Kelso, an independent consultant who works in the UNIX/virtualization/cloud space.

The Datanauts rocket returns to the automation solar system for another detailed survey of the whys and hows of automation and coding in operations.

Our intrepid host for this voyage is Lauren Malhoit, a technologist, Cisco employee, and co-host of Cisco’s Techwise TV. She also blogs at AdaptingIT.

We talk with Lauren about APIs, scripting and coding (particularly in Python), and the debate about whether network engineers and other non-developer IT pros need to learn to program. Lauren also offers tools and tips for folks who want to get started with automation and programming.

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Show Links:

Lauren’s Pluralsight courses:

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Cisco Open Source Projects for the Data Center – GitHub

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Cisco DevNet

Brent Salisbury is today's guest on Full Stack Journey. As someone who transitioned from network engineer to software developer, Brent is ideally suited to share his experiences.

Today. Viptela has agreed to be acquired by Cisco.

Cisco’s ability to provide software defined WAN with the current IOS technology isn’t working out too well. Mostly, we hear negative feedback about iWAN, APIC-EM and Prime, which is the SD-WAN strategy. We also hear that Cisco hasn’t been winning deals in the Enterprise WAN space even when the discounts are aggressive.

Ethan and Greg have jumped on the microphones for an unplanned, free-form discussion of a bunch of thoughts on both sides of the acquisition. On balance, we are both excited about this and believe it’s going to be a positive outcome for customers.

Links

Link: Thank you Viptela Customers, Partners and Employees | Viptela – http://viptela.com/thank-viptela-customers-partners-employees/

Link: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Viptela | The Network – https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1841607

Link: ESHARP.NET – Technology and life with Eyvonne Sharp – http://www.esharp.net/

Link: Cisco Snaps Up Viptela | Light Reading – http://www.lightreading.com/carrier-sdn/sd-wan/cisco-snaps-up-viptela/d/d-id/732441?_mc=RSS_LR_EDT

Link: Cisco Acquires Viptela: Facts & Commentary – Packet Pushers – https://packetpushers.net/cisco-acquires-viptela-facts-commentary/

Link: List of SD-WAN Vendors – Packet Pushers – https://packetpushers.net/virtual-toolbox/list-sd-wan-vendors/

The Full Stack Journey talks with Matt Oswalt about the intersection of network infrastructure, software development, and automation.

On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Bart Smith shares some details about his journey from being a Microsoft-centric infrastructure engineer to what he calls a cloud-native full stack engineer.

This week’s Priority Queue was recorded on site at IETF 98 in Chicago. The topic is DNS.

You may think that DNS is “done” but it’s a fundamental mechanism that keeps the Internet running, and there’s lots to talk about regarding scale, security, privacy, and DDoS protection. We’ll also get into mechanisms for DNS authentication and operational issues.

Our guest is Tim Wicinski, co-chair of the IETF’s DNS Operations and DNS Privacy working groups. Join us for a free-flowing conversation about various issues in the world of DNS.

This podcast was recorded on site at the IETF 98 conference in Chicago. Thanks to Huawei, which covered travel and accomodations to enable the Packet Pushers to attend and record some shows and spread the news about what the IETF is up to.

Today on the Datanauts it’s email security. Lots of organizations have outsourced their email to the cloud, and for good reasons: Web access is ubiquitous, email infrastructure can be a pain to manage and secure, and email can take up lots of storage.

But there are also good reasons for keeping email in-house, including privacy and retention requirements, specific security needs, and the ability to maintain control over your infrastructure destiny.

On today’s episode we’ll discuss how to build a robust and secure in-house email infrastructure, talk about the importance of IPv4 and IPv6 support, explore technologies and protocols to validate email servers and thwart spammers, and explain the role of DNS in supporting secure email.

Our guest is Jacob Evans, Sr. Systems Engineer at WebstaurantStore.com. You can follow him on Twitter and check out his blog at www.jacobdevans.com.

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Show Links:

Sender Policy Framework – OpenSPF.org

Sender Policy Framework for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1 – IETF 7208

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC)

DMARCian – A DMARC Deployment Tool

DomainKeys Identified Mail – DKIM.org

DomainKeys Identified Mail Signatures – IETF 6376