Learning

Practical resources for getting things done.

Brick tower

Security architecture

Become familiar with various ways to design technical methods that minimize the risk of having a class of users who must be trusted—of their own volition—to behave within a set of rules in order to safeguard privacy.

Old switches

Arista's Virtual ARP

Gone are the days of lining up VLAN Root Bridges and Default Gateway ownership. Arista has an incredibly simple way to solve that design challenge.

The world map from Leinhart Holle's 1482 edition of Nicolaus Germanus's emendations to Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.

Who is...? A question, not the Unix command

Chris Baker discusses Internet cartography and its implications for risk and security. He focuses on building a mental model for how we know where on the network something is, what it is, and why that is important.

Tools

Managing a large open source community with smart tools

Jonas Rosland and Stephanie Carlson outline a few of the smart tools they use—for chats, emails, community metrics, project management, and more—to tackle this big task and discuss failures, successes, and lessons learned in managing large open source communities.

Bonsai living plant.

Designing culture

This report examines how your organization can use behavioral science to design a workplace culture that supports creativity, collaboration, and innovation among your employees.

Log book

The Arista event monitor

How nice would it be to have a specific log that keeps track of all route, MAC, and ARP moves/adds/deletes? Arista has a built-in feature that does that for you automatically.

William Caxton showing specimens of his printing to King Edward IV and his Queen.

Easy, reproducible reports with R

Garrett Grolemund demonstrates how to use R Markdown to combine code and text into a single .Rmd file to generate polished reports automatically in a variety of formats.

Frank Gehry's Dancing House windows.

Best practices for streaming applications

Mark Grover and Ted Malaska offer an overview of projects for streaming applications, including Kafka, Flume, and Spark Streaming, and discuss the architectural schemas available, such as Lambda and Kappa.

The color frontispiece from Albert Henry Munsell's 1905 pamphlet "A Color Notation."

Running Spark on Alluxio with S3

Calvin Jia presents an in-depth overview of Alluxio and its role in the big data ecosystem. In this segment, he reviews examples that show how Alluxio complements Spark and S3, to enable fast data access.