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
During the build of a new web-based service, one of the first questions to arise is, “How will I talk to it?” There are many options to consider. The two we will focus on here are REST and gRPC. While
There are many messaging products in the market; but two of the most popular open source messaging technologies available today are RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka. Which software is right for you? Each has its own story, design framework, set of
DevOps culture and process depends upon monitoring applications and application servers. You need to be able to continuously monitor your applications and servers in order to track application exceptions, memory usage, server CPU and/or spikes in storage. You also want
Protocol buffers, also known as Protobuf, is a protocol that Google developed internally to enable serialization and deserialization of structured data between different services. Google’s design goal was to create a better method than XML to make systems communicate with
The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Pulsar has graduated to become its latest Top Level Project. Apache explains Pulsar as a “next-generation, Open Source distributed publish-and-subscribe messaging system designed for scalability, flexibility, and no data loss.” By graduating Pulsar
eBay announced last week that it has been custom-building its own servers in order to replatform and bring up to date its backend infrastructure; and following the lead of Facebook, the eCommerce giant will be open-sourcing its designs. The open
Today, we’re going to look at the TensorFlow ecosystem in some depth. As an open-source ML framework released and developed by Google, it has built a formidable community in a relatively short period of time and has demonstrated some very
The router market is largely controlled by the big vendors like Cisco and Juniper that spend a lot of time and money developing a rich feature set, mainly routing protocols. However, there are also multiple open-source BGP routing stacks in
Last week, Google released its new reinforcement learning (RL) framework, Dopamine, based on its machine learning library, Tensorflow. The search giant has open sourced the innovative new framework to GitHub where it is now openly available. “Inspired by one of
Microsoft has decided to open source the code behind ONE, the system that emulates the global network powering the Azure cloud to help reduce network outages. What is ONE or the Open Network Emulator? The system is called the Open
Last month, we wrote a summary of the latest Google Cloud Next conference held in San Francisco. Not only did Google highlight its latest major investments in infrastructure, but the search giant went into detail about how it is pushing
Apache Kafka, the open source distributed streaming platform, has become increasingly popular in the DevOps community, experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity, particularly within the developer and engineer community, over the last seven years. It was initially released in 2011.
Netflix recently released details of how it enables multi-cloud continuous delivery via the Spinnaker platform. The streaming giant uses it to deploy more than 95% of its infrastructure in AWS, comprised of hundreds of microservices and thousands of daily deployments.
For some time, Facebook has had its sights set on the legacy telecom hardware industry and has been investing in a raft of projects worldwide to blow it open and double down on expensive and second-rate connectivity. Last week, we
