Caffe, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Spark MLlib and TensorFlowOnSpark Overview
When it comes to AI frameworks, there are several tools available that can be used for tasks such as image classification, vision, and speech. Some are popular like PyTorch and Caffe, while others are more limited. Below are the highlights
AWS Outposts, Google Anthos GKE, and Azure On-Prem Overview
When it comes to on-prem hardware, Dell and HPE are the industry juggernauts. According to IDC, “traditional spending” which is defined as “anything that’s not a private or public cloud” was 49.8% of total spending in 2019. That means half
Stateful vs Stateless Applications
Stateless apps do not store application state or data to persistent storage, which makes stateless applications highly scalable. However, stateful applications require persistent storage for data for use by clients, servers, and other applications. For instance, the REPL calculator is
Open Source Load Balancers: Neutrino, Katran, Maglev, Seesaw, Traefix, and HAProxy
Load balancers play a critical role in helping enterprises scale internet infrastructure. At the most basic level, load balancers ingest incoming internet traffic, then distributes the load across server infrastructure, as was the case when Google helped Niantic launch Pokémon
Hadoop Ecosystem: MapReduce, YARN, Hive, Pig, Spark, Oozie, Zookeeper, Mahout, and Kube2Hadoop
The Hadoop Ecosystem is a framework and suite of tools that tackle the many challenges in dealing with big data. Although Hadoop has been on the decline for some time, there are organizations like LinkedIn where it has become a
Open Source AutoML Tools: AutoGluon, TransmogrifAI, Auto-sklearn, and NNI
Open-source AutoML tools are rapidly becoming dominant in the entrepreneurial landscape. These solutions help enterprises implement and scale their ML and AI projects. AutoML open-source tools automate the entire life cycle of ideating, conceptualization, development, and deployment of predictive models.
BGP Open Source Tools: OpenBGPD, FRRouting, Xorp, Kube-Router, Vrnetlab, and ARTEMIS
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the lifeblood of the Internet. At the most basic level, routers share network information between autonomous systems. It was designed by “Yakov Rekhter of IBM and Kirk Lougheed of Cisco” in 1989. As of August
Automation and Orchestration: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, and Terraform Overview
In the ‘DevOps’ world, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Saltstack, and Puppet are industry-wide configuration management tools. These tools help DevOps create, scale, and manage server configurations with ease. Before DevOps became prevalent, operations and development were two separate silos. In the
Can AWS WAF and CloudFlare Commoditize the Edge Security Market Within 2 Years
In October of 2015, Amazon introduced two new security features: AWS WAF and Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector is a web application scanner that scans for vulnerabilities within the AWS environment. From a competitive standpoint, the Inspector tool is one of
Job Board: Verizon Digital Media Services is Hiring
Verizon Digital Media Services Lead Software Infrastructure Engineer (in LA) Be an engineer and love to build new things — innovative thinker and creative problem solver Be on top of the latest technologies and massive scale DevOps & Agile methodologies
Interview with Shlomo Kramer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cato Networks
Shlomo Kramer is a well-known name in the cybersecurity field and was kind enough to grant us an interview regarding his newest venture, Cato Networks, which recently came out of stealth mode in February 2016. Cato Networks believes that cloud-based