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Performance Matters for Service Mesh
We believe that service meshes will be absolutely central to the future of networking. When networks only connected physical machines, we needed…
Bruce Davie
Aug 1
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Omission by Design
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
Jul 18
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Quantum Reality
How The “Conservation of Weirdness” Will Impact Cryptography. Cryptography depends on the supposed difficulty of finding the prime factors of a large…
Bruce Davie
Jul 4
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What's next for P4?
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
Jun 20
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Is Zero Trust Living Up to Expectations?
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
Jun 6
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Observability Joins the List of Essential System Properties
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
May 23
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Why APIs Matter
APIs (application programming interfaces) are no longer just a technical detail of interest to computer scientists. Banks, for example, are launching…
Bruce Davie
May 9
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Narrow Waists and Big Ideas
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
Apr 25
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Decentralizing Cellular Networks
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
Apr 11
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Overtaken By Events
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
Mar 28
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SDN and the Alignment of Planets
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
Mar 14
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Venn Diagram Engineering
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
Feb 28
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