- If you manage/work with BGP you should be aware of the issues around prefix hijacking. The is heading towards RPKI and Cisco has worked with a large portion of the prefix owners in Ecuador to deploy RPKI and have a blog post on the event. Very interesting and I hope this jumpstarts RPKI adoption.
- Over at ComputerWorld there is an article on some of the various configuration management tools available. It seems pretty good and tries to be fair to all the vendors. Obviously when it comes time to make a choice you will need to perform your own testing to see what fits your environment but articles like these help. It sure seems like these configuration management tools are proliferating.
- While it is all fun and games to laugh at Azure going down taking a whole bunch of public Microsoft websites with it, it also serves as a timely reminder that the “cloud” isn’t some magical beast that has 100% uptime just because there are lots of data centres scattered across the world. Monitoring your off premise availability is just as important as monitoring on premise. Perhaps this is the “Kondratiev wave” of IT, marketing convinces people that the new shiny doesn’t need any of the old ways, tech gets implemented to the suffering of the users/business, new shiny gets operationalised enough for the “old ways” to be implemented again. Such is life I guess.
