Down With The Sickness [22]

Ned laments the use of IPU in a deep dive on SmartNICs, Chris is upset about Protons, and we all bask in the glow of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation.

Show Notes

Down With The Sickness

Episode: 22 Published: 08/23/2022

Stories

Because you wanted to know more about SmartNICs right? RIGHT????

• Network Interface Controller
• To further enhance that interaction, the Data Plane Development Kit project was created
• Open Programmable Infrastructure project to try and set an open standard for how these DPUs work
• OpenStack has drivers for using Neutron with Open Virtual Networking
• VMware Project Monterey
• ROCE and iWARP

Lightning Round

• ProtonMail Suffers Second Outage in 8 Weeks, Users are Not Amused
• Why is Ethereum always preparing? Just Merge already.
• 2 year old iOS bug that renders VPNs unreliable still not fixed, says researcher
• Beware the unused account says Mandiant
• In the early 2000���s, Janet Jackson���s video for Rhythm Nation would crash computers
  • Sun Engineer Brendan Gregg causing observable latency in a disk array by shouting at them
• Google Cloud Armor fends off 46M Requests Per Second DDoS Attack

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance copyright 2022

What is Chaos Lever Podcast?

Chaos Lever examines emerging trends and new technology for the enterprise and beyond. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner examine the tech landscape through a skeptical lens based on over 40 combined years in the industry. Are we all doomed? Yes. Will the apocalypse be streamed on TikTok? Probably. Does Joni still love Chachi? Decidedly not.