Network engineers normally use and support DNS as a service, but don't tend to deploy, manage, and interact with DNS servers at an application level. For this episode of the Hedge, Andreas Taudte joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the many lessons learned from planning and deploying DNS as a service.

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Applications generally assume the network provides near-real-time packet transmission without regard for what the application is trying to do, what kind of traffic is being transmitted, etc. Back in the real world, its often important for the network to coordinate with applications to more efficiently carry traffic offered. The Path Aware Research Group (PANRG) in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is looking at the problems involved in understanding and signaling the path characteristics to applications.

In this episode of the Hedge, Brian Trammel joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the current work on path aware networking.

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November update on upcoming shows and training. My upcoming training on Safari Books Online is here.

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Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ hang out at the hedge on this episode. The topics of discussion include our perception of security—does the way IT professionals treat security and privacy helpful for those who aren't involved in the IT world? Do we discourage users from taking security seriously by making it so complex and hard to use? Our second topic is whether multicloud is being oversold for the average network operator.

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If you advertise routes through a provider to the global Internet, you might be wondering if you should go through the trouble of registering in the RPKI and advertising ROAs. What is the tradeoff for the work involved in what seems like a complex process? Cecelia Testart joins Jeremy White and Russ White to discuss recent work in measuring the value of the RPKI.

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It's also worth reading Cecelia's article on this topic.

What's going on with the Hedge? What am I teaching this coming month? Listen to this short update to find out all the news.

https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-oct22.mp3

Who's using the cloud? Is cheap complexity harmful? Are mainframes dead? Is this the end of specialized networking hardware? Is it a good idea to have server folks build networks? On this episode of the Hedge, Tom, Eyvonne, and Russ go "guestless" in a roundtable about various topics and ideas in the networking world. Listen here—

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It seems like only yesterday we started talking about the Site Reliability Engineer, and their place in the IT ecosystem. Over the last several years, the role of the SRE has changed—and it's bound to continue changing. On this episode of the Hedge, Niall Murphy joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the changing role of the SRE, and what the SRE could be.

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If you want to read more on this topic, check out Niall's article over a USENIX.

It seems like only yesterday we started talking about the Site Reliability Engineer, and their place in the IT ecosystem. Over the last several years, the role of the SRE has changed—and it's bound to continue changing. On this episode of the Hedge, Niall Murphy joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the changing role of the SRE, and what the SRE could be.

https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-147.mp3

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If you want to read more on this topic, check out Niall's article over a USENIX.

Lots of interesting stuff coming up this month on the Hedge, and here at Rule11 ... listen here to find out all about upcoming episodes and training.

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You can register for the DC fabric training I mention in this update here.