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PACKET CAPTURE / Week of September 23-27, 2024
Summerset Banks
September 27, 2024
FYI
The latest annual Packet Pushers survey we run every other year or so (😂) is out! We'd love it if you'd spend a little time with it. Audience Survey
JOB ALERTS
The latest job postings from the Packet Pushers Slack Group
Network Engineer at University of Vermont Health Network
Network Engineer at G-Research
NEW PODCASTS
 | EP 496 | SEPTEMBER 23, 2024Nokia's Enterprise Data Center Intentions; Are AI ChatBots Worth the Nuclear Waste?Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Microsoft's proposed deal to buy power from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, new APs and switches from Juniper Networks, how Nokia hopes to take on the data center switch giants with a new automation platform, LinkedIn's sneaky AI training move, and more tech news. | LISTEN NOW |
 | SPONSORED | SEPTEMBER 23, 2024Tech Bytes: Reduce GenAI App Risks Without Reducing Productivity (Sponsored)Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about GenAI apps. From search to software development to video creation, Generative AI tools are widely available as standalone apps and are being bundled into enterprise applications. Whether you want them or not, GenAI apps are out there and running wild. On today’s show, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we talk about the uses of–and risks–these applications pose, and options you have to deal with those risks. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 083 | SEPTEMBER 24, 2024Why Protocols Fail: Russ White's Perspective on Effective ArchitectureNetwork veteran Russ White joins the Heavy Strategy team for a rousing discussion on why protocols fail, how much complexity is too much, why "premature optimization is the root of all evil" (Donald Knuth) and why architects should always remember to think about state. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 083 | SEPTEMBER 24, 2024Unpacking RPKI for BGP SecurityToday on Packet Protector we get into BGP security. BGP is an essential protocol for directing traffic across the Internet, but it wasn’t designed with bad actors in mind, not to mention plain old configuration mistakes. Without additional controls in place, BGP is susceptible to issues such as route leaks and route hijacks that can cause outages and facilitate traffic snooping. Guest Russ White walks us through BGP essentials and how RPKI can help make BGP more secure. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 074 | SEPTEMBER 25, 2024Integrate and Collaborate with Codespaces and ContainerlabGitHub Codespaces aims to simplify spinning up a developer environment in the cloud. Containerlab, which provides virtual lab environments for network engineers, is now integrated with Codespaces to make it easy to set up and share network labs. On today's Network Automation Nerds show, we delve into this innovative use of GitHub Codespaces and containerlab with guests Roman Dodin and Petr Ankudinov. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 004 | SEPTEMBER 26, 2024Fostering Psychological Safety for Tech TeamsThe concept of psychological safety originated from research on surgical teams. Psychological safety allows team members to voice concerns without fear of retaliation. As a leadership tool, it can help people perform at their highest levels. In this episode of Technically Leadership, guest Wesley Faulkner talks with host Laura Santamaria about applying the concept of psychological safety to technical teams. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 751 | SEPTEMBER 27, 2024Top Tips for Building A CCIE-EI LabThe Packet Pushers and guest Mason Reimert discuss strategies he's using to prepare for the Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure lab exam. Mason shares practical tips for hands-on labbing for both established and emerging technologies like SD-WAN and SD-Access, resource management, virtualization tools, and automation. He also highlights the importance of understanding APIs, data formats, and the integration of various technologies. | LISTEN NOW |
THIS WEEK’S BLOG POSTS
ETHAN BANKS | SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Briefing Report: Drut's DX3.0 Maximizes GPU Hardware Utilization For AI Workloads
The folks at Drut (pronounced "droot", supply your own I am Droot jokes) have created an AI compute environment for the rest of us. Who's the rest of us? Anyone that's doing AI-related work--training models for generative AI applications, for instance--but isn't doing so with hundreds of billions or trillions of tokens. This matters because most of the noise around the challenges of AI data centers is related to problems that hyperscalers have...but probably not your company.
For AI computation, hyperscalers are running massive networks with many thousands of nodes feeding data from a storage network on the frontend to a GPU network on the backend. The GPU network is working on distributed math problems--problems that are broken into interdependent chunks, each chunk fed to a GPU in a cluster. If a chunk of the distributed math problem doesn't make it to its assigned GPU due to network latency or packet loss, the entire GPU cluster is idled. And no one wants that.| READ NOW
ETHAN BANKS | SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Briefing Summary: Netos Builds A Bridge Between Networking & Finance
Netos startup founder Richard Foster reached out to brief Packet Pushersabout what he and his team have built.
In short, Netos is a financial modeling engine for networks that rides on NetBox. That is, you can take your existing NetBox installation, add Netos, and will have extended your NetBox functionality with financial forecasting, risk assessments, strategic planning, vendor comparisons, end-of-life integration, and quite a bit more.
You don’t have to already be a NetBox user to use Netos. Netos offers tooling to stand up & maintain an entire NetBox instance from scratch for you so that you can focus on Netos. There’s also a SaaS option.| READ NOW