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We believe that service meshes will be absolutely central to the future of networking. When networks only connected physical machines, we needed…
Bruce Davie
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One of the secrets of writing that I’ve come to appreciate over the years is knowing what to leave out. This starts with deciding what topics are…
Larry Peterson
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How The “Conservation of Weirdness” Will Impact Cryptography. Cryptography depends on the supposed difficulty of finding the prime factors of a large…
Bruce Davie
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Looking back on the 2022 P4 Workshop I had two big takeaways: the first narrowly focuses on the proposed roadmap for P4, while the second looks at the…
Larry Peterson
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It was a milestone week at Systems Approach as we published TCP Congestion Control: A Systems Approach in both print and ebook formats. You should be…
Bruce Davie
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While working to complete the Monitoring and Telemetry chapter of our Edge Cloud Operations book, I couldn’t help but notice all the hype on the…
Larry Peterson
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APIs (application programming interfaces) are no longer just a technical detail of interest to computer scientists. Banks, for example, are launching…
Bruce Davie
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One of the things we try to do in all of our books is highlight the system design principles illustrated by specific technologies. In our main book…
Larry Peterson
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This week we’re turning our attention to the possible decentralization of the “mobile packet core”, which promises a significant departure from how…
Bruce Davie
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Whatever Came of the NFV Initiative? Since our recent posts have been retracing the history (and recounting the lessons) of SDN, it seems like a good…
Larry Peterson
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We’ve been involved in some exciting moments as we’ve watched the networking landscape over the last forty-or-so years. It’s often only with hindsight…
Bruce Davie
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Open source software has been the subject of many essays, of which Eric Raymond’s insights in The Cathedral and The Bazaar still serves as a…
Larry Peterson
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