Worth Reading: Stuffing the Camel into the Bikeshed

10 April 2018

Standards bodies exist to create new standards. Leaving things well alone is not part of the proposition here, and the temptation to tweak, poke, prod and massage existing standards is sometimes irresistible. —Geoff Huston @Potaroo

Worth Reading: Has monolithic gotten a bad rap?

10 April 2018

We tend to depict the microservice and the monolith as two polar opposite styles of software architecture — the natively decomposed versus the self-contained, the fluid versus the solid, the mercurial versus the integral. —Scott M. Fulton III @The New Stack

Worth Reading: Five things to know about microservices

9 April 2018

New architectures typically require new architectural knowledge and new ideas about how to deploy systems. The microservices pattern affects the architectures of both software and the organizations that use it. —Jonathan Owens @The New Stack

Worth Reading: The role of cellular in the ‘net

9 April 2018

The tremendous growth of the mobile Internet, with over 11 billion devices connected by 2020, and its economic implications, have motivated several reports. And yet, we still lack an understanding of the impact of cellular networks around the world. —Fabián Bustamante @APNIC

Worth Reading: 1.1.1.1

5 April 2018

Cloudflare, a well-known Internet performance and security company, announced the launch of 1.1.1.1—world’s fastest and privacy-focused secure DNS service that not only speeds up your internet connection but also makes it harder for ISPs to track your web history. —Mohit Kumar @The Hacker News

Worth Reading: Oblivious DNS

5 April 2018

The recent news that Mozilla and Cloudflare are deploying their own DNS recursive resolver has once again raised hopes that users will enjoy improved privacy, since they can send DNS traffic encrypted to Cloudflare, rather than to their ISP. In this post, we explain why this approach only moves your private data from the ISP…

Worth Reading: Firestopping

4 April 2018

In reviewing mission-critical data centers under construction, both during the submittal phase and during on-site inspections, I’ve found that the single most misunderstood issue is penetration firestopping. —Dean Ventola @Data Center Journal

Worth Reading: Disconnecting from Facebook

4 April 2018

The smartphone has effectively transformed us into cyborgs, we have in our hands a highly efficient computing device equipped with a photo and video camera, microphone, GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, light and proximity sensors, as well as other features that allow creation of increasingly useful, impressive and addictive applications. —Joao Carlos Caribe @CircleID

Worth Reading: Connectivity as a consumer service

3 April 2018

Having Comcast et al provide Internet connectivity is like having your barber do surgery because he knows how to use a knife. I was reminded of this when my Comcast connection failed. —Bob Frankston @CircleID

Worth Reading: Latency wags the dog

3 April 2018

The expression, the tail wags the dog, is used when a seemingly unimportant factor or infrequent event actually dominates the situation. It turns out that in modern datacenters, this is precisely the case – with relatively rare events determining overall performance. —Kevin Deierling @The Next Platform