The Hedge

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.

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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.

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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.

How much of the traffic on the Internet is wasted—traffic no-one really wanted, and yet is being carried and paid for by providers and end users? In a world increasingly concerned about the waste of precious resources, this is an important topic to consider. Leslie Daigle joins Russ White and Tom Ammon on this episode of the Hedge to discuss the kinds of traffic she's seeing hit their large-scale honey-trap, and the implications for the Internet.

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The software world is known for overdue projects, costs overrun, lots of defects, and lots of failure all the way around. Many other engineering fields have stricter requirements to take on projects and liability insurance driving correct practice and care. The networking world, and the larger IT world, however, has neither of these things. Does this make IT folks less likely to "do the right thing," or is the self-regulation we have today enough? Join Tom Ammon, Eyvonne Sharp, and Russ White as they discuss the possibilities of professional liability in information technology.

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