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If you’re a modern sort of infrastructure engineer, you’re likely interested in APIs.

Structured data, everybody. That’s a big win. RESTful APIs are the most common you’re likely to run into when managing infrastructure, and on today’s show I interview Chris all about RESTful API fundamentals.

Your buzzword bingo list includes automation, abstraction, pagination, idempotent, JSON, YAML, swagger, and versioning. Drink!

We discuss:

* What is a REST and how provides a set of definitions for how APIs can share data

* How APIs work

* How APIs tie into automation

* The anatomy of an API conversation

* Key subjects including authorization, pagination, versioning, and idempotent requests

* Education and training available from Rubrik Build

Sponsor: Quest Software

Quest Software is your go-to for everything Microsoft. Migrate to a new SharePoint or Office 365 environment, move to OneDrive for Business, consolidate Active Directory and Exchange, secure your AD from insider threats, and much more! Learn more at Quest.com/DatanautsPod, and join Quest at The Experts Conference this August for Active Directory and Office 365 training and earn up to 7 CPEs. Get details here.

Show Links:

Stripe

Swagger – GitHub

Rubrik Build – Rubrik

Roxie at Rubrik: GitHub Repositories for Learning – GitHub

Roxie Workshop Automation (PDF of slides)

Your Hosts:

Ethan Banks

Chris Wahl

If you’re a modern sort of infrastructure engineer, you’re likely interested in APIs.

Structured data, everybody. That’s a big win. RESTful APIs are the most common you’re likely to run into when managing infrastructure, and on today’s show I interview Chris all about RESTful API fundamentals.

Your buzzword bingo list includes automation, abstraction, pagination, idempotent, JSON, YAML, swagger, and versioning. Drink!

We discuss:

* What is a REST and how provides a set of definitions for how APIs can share data

* How APIs work

* How APIs tie into automation

* The anatomy of an API conversation

* Key subjects including authorization, pagination, versioning, and idempotent requests

* Education and training available from Rubrik Build

Sponsor: Quest Software

Quest Software is your go-to for everything Microsoft. Migrate to a new SharePoint or Office 365 environment, move to OneDrive for Business, consolidate Active Directory and Exchange, secure your AD from insider threats, and much more! Learn more at Quest.com/DatanautsPod, and join Quest at The Experts Conference this August for Active Directory and Office 365 training and earn up to 7 CPEs. Get details here.

Show Links:

Stripe

Swagger – GitHub

Rubrik Build – Rubrik

Roxie at Rubrik: GitHub Repositories for Learning – GitHub

Roxie Workshop Automation (PDF of slides)

Your Hosts:

Ethan Banks

Chris Wahl

Today's Network Break analyzes Zoom's change of course on security vulnerabilities, discusses the reasons behind Cisco's multibillion acquisition of Acacia, examines IBM's closing of its Red Hat purchase, and more tech news.

Take a Network Break!

We’ve created a dedicated FU page for follow-ups to our reporting and analysis: packetpushers.net/fu. If you have a comment, correction, or additional information on something we’ve talked about, let us know here.

Zoom does an about-face on its initial response to security vulnerabilities disclosed by a researcher, Cisco acquires optical interconnect maker Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion, and IBM completes its Red Hat acquisition.

Goldman Sachs downgrades F5 from “Neutral” to “Sell” as the company finds its way in a cloud-centric world, Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack in daily users, and Cloudflare re-trademarks “The network is the computer” as a marketing gimmick.

Mozilla blocks a security company from being a root certificate authority in Firefox, an IT pro goes to jail for trashing an employer’s files, and a software engineer releases a research project on how to make massive ZIP bombs. Oh boy!

Sponsor: ThousandEyes

ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt.

Show Links:

Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! – Jonathan Leitschuh via Medium

Response to Video-On Concern – Zoom

Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server – TechCrunch

Cisco Acquires Acacia Communications – Packet Pushers Ignition

Cisco Intends to Acquire Acacia Communications – Acacia Communications, Inc.

Cisco Announces Intent to Buy Acacia Communications; Helping Drive Significant Industry Network Architectural Shifts – Cisco Blog

IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future – IBM

F5 Networks -4.7% as Goldman cuts to Sell on pressures – F5 Networks, Inc. – Seeking Alpha

Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users – The Verge

The Network is the Computer – Cloudflare

The Packet Pushers are relaunching our Ignition membership site with a premium-only model and a brand new course on practical QoS from Ethan Banks. On today's show we cover the details of the relaunch and share a sneak peek of the course.

It’s been about a year since the Packet Pushers debuted Ignition, our membership site for professional development and as a way to support the Packet Pushers directly.

In that time we’ve learned a few things about running a paid membership site. I won’t say Ignition has been a failure. It’s also fair to say Ignition hasn’t been a roaring success. It’s been…meh. And “meh” isn’t what we want.

So, a redo is in order. Today’s podcast marks the official relaunch of Ignition. We talk about changes we’ve made to the site’s design, a new subscription scheme, new content, and what we plan to do going forward.

Big changes include getting rid of the free tier. Going forward, Ignition content will only be available for paid members ($99 a year). Free access is no longer available.

We’re also decoupling the Human Infrastructure newsletter from Ignition. Human Infrastructure is now a free, standalone newsletter. If you’re already a subscriber, you don’t have to do anything; you’ll continue to get each issue in your inbox.

If you’d like to get the newsletter, the sign-up page now lives on PacketPushers, along with an archive of every issue.

Last but not least, we’ve debuted a brand new course on QoS by Ethan Banks. This course, available only for paid Ignition members, contains more than three hours of instructional material on practical QoS.

Ethan covers practical information on the ToS byte, DSCP marketing strategies, shaping, policing, and more. The goal is to help you understand how to use QoS to solve network problems.

It’s presented in a modular format so you can consume it in manageable bites, and track your progress over time.

Ignition is still a work in progress. Over time we’ll continue to build our content library, including more instructional courses, new whitepapers, analytical blog posts, and more.

As always, we are truly thankful for the support we get from you, whether as a listener, reader, or Ignition member.

Sponsor: ExtraHop

ExtraHop is the enterprise cyber analytics company delivering performance and security from the inside out. ExtraHop offers complete visibility with machine learning to help you make quick, confident decisions about your IT environment. Explore the ExtraHop Performance Platform at extrahop.com/packetpushers.

Show Links:

Ignition

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Objections to IPv6 adoption tend to follow three tracks: we don't need it, we don't have budget, and we'll lose the security and multihoming benefits of NAT. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Dr. David Holder explains why these objections don't hold water, and how to communicate with business and technical leaders to overcome them.

Organizations don’t have to be convinced to adopt the cloud these days. The conversation now is about how to do it right.

The cloud is not just another data center or just another IT project; it’s a transformation in how you build, operate, and consume cloud applications and technologies, and how you support people and objectives.

Joining me today to provide some expert guidance on the right way to adopt cloud is Dwayne Monroe, a Cloud Architect for Cloudreach.

We discuss:

* The wrong way of doing cloud (no refactoring, sizing servers as you would on premises, etc.)

* Why organizations fail to design with cost in mind

* The need for a cloud team that crosses IT and business domains and disciplines

* Why you should explore PaaS and serverless, not just IaaS

* IT’s shared responsibility to design for service availability and security

* Why staff training is a must

* Laying the groundwork to refactor applications once they’re in the cloud

* More

Show Links:

Dwayne Monroe on Twitter

Dwayne Monroe on LinkedIn

The Azure Cmdlet Project

Using a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) to Transform the Entire Enterprise – Amazon

Prevent unexpected charges with Azure billing and cost management – Microsoft

Choosing the right service in Azure – Microsoft

Cloud Cost Control & Architecture (or, how to avoid sticker shock) – Dwayne Monroe

Organizations don't have to be convinced to adopt the cloud these days. The conversation now is about how to do it right. Guest Dwayne Monroe joins the Day Two Cloud podcast to talk about how to change your thinking about cloud in terms of resource sizing, cost, staff training, service availability, app refactoring and much more.

You might have any number of software controllers in your infrastructure: one for wireless, one for SD-WAN, one in the data center, one for security, and so on. Would it be useful to federate these controllers? Can we expect the industry to produce a controller of controllers? Is this even a good idea? Today's Heavy Networking podcast ponders these questions with guest Rob Sherwood.