February, 2025

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Investment in data centre markets to reach new heights

DCNN Magazine

CBRE , a commercial real estate service company, is expecting an unprecedented amount of new data centre supply to be delivered in Europe this year, as providers aim to keep pace with fierce demand. According to the latest research from the company, there is 937MW of new supply expected in European markets this year. If this data centre supply is delivered, it will set reportedly a new record for Europe and would represent an increase of 282MW more than the 655MW of capacity delivered in 2024.

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Navigating the AI Era as a CCIE

Cisco Wireless

Technical expertise remains crucial in an AI-driven world, with new insights and key updates for CCIEs to prepare for the future.

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How Amazon S3 Stores 350 Trillion Objects with 11 Nines of Durability

ByteByteGo

🚀Faster mobile releases with automated QA Manual testing on personal devices is too slow and too limited. It forces teams to cut releases a week early just to test before submitting them to app stores. And without broad device coverage, issues slip through. QA Wolf’s AI-native service delivers 80% automated test coverage in weeks , with tests running on real iOS devices and Android emulators —all in 100% parallel with zero flakes. ✅ QA cycles reduced to just 15 minutes

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AI-powered newsletters - Faster creation, greater impact

Effective Software Design

Market Intelligence AI-powered newsletters - Faster creation, greater impact Summarize, analyze and personalize your newsletter with Feedly AI 15-second summary Finding engaging content for your newsletter is only part of the challenge. You must also summarize key concepts, extract trends, and tailor messages to your audience. Thats why weve added AI capabilities to make newsletters smarter and faster to craft.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Revisiting Docker Hub Policies: Prioritizing Developer Experience

Docker Blog

At Docker, we are committed to ensuring that Docker Hub remains the best place for developers, engineering teams, and operations teams to build, share, and collaborate. As part of this, we previously announced plans to introduce image pull consumption fees and storage-based billing. After further evaluating how developers use Docker Hub and what will best support the ecosystem, we have refined our approachone that prioritizes developer experience and enables developers to scale with confidence w

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Creating a Real-World PowerShell Module: Scaffolding Functions

ATA Learning

Learn how to create a custom PowerShell module for computer inventory management. This hands-on guide covers module structure, functions, and remote capabilities.

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Cisco and NVIDIA Unite to Propel AI into the Enterprise

Cisco Wireless

Today Cisco and NVIDIA announced a mutual intent to expand a partnership that brings together two of the industrys most innovative data center networking and compute leaders. Our collaboration will help enterprises accelerate AI projects and make it easier for more customers than ever to standardize on Cisco as they modernize their data center networks.

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Non-Functional Requirements: The Backbone of Great Software - Part 2

ByteByteGo

Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are as critical as functional requirements because they define a system's qualities and operational parameters. Functional requirements specify what a software product should do (for example, “users must be able to log in”). However, non-functional requirements define how well it must accomplish these tasks under real-world conditions (for example, “the login process should respond within two seconds under peak load” or “all user c

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My years in management: Looking forward

SubnetZero

As of December, my role at Cisco has transitioned from a leadership role back to an individual contributor. Gone are the constant approval emails; gone is the stack ranking of employees; gone are the performance reviews and the one-on-ones. Its both relieving and eerily quiet.

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Docker Engine v28: Hardening Container Networking by Default

Docker Blog

Docker simplifies containerization by removing runtime complexity and making app development seamless. With Docker Engine v28 , were taking another step forward in security by ensuring containers arent unintentionally accessible from local networks. This update isnt about fixing a single vulnerability its about security hardening so your containers stay safe.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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AI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impact

Effective Software Design

Threat Intelligence AI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impact Analyze and personalize threat intel faster with help from AI. 15-Second summary Creating threat intel newsletters involves more than collecting relevant information. You need to summarize key concepts, extract TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) and other entities, and align analysis with stakeholder needs.

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DataVolt and NEOM to develop net zero AI campus in Oxagon

DCNN Magazine

NEOM , the sustainable region taking shape in northwest Saudi Arabia, and DataVolt , a Saudi-based international developer, investor and operator of data centres, have signed a landmark agreement, marking a significant step toward realising the Kingdoms vision for a sustainable, data-driven economy. The development will take a phased approach, with phase one expected to be operational by 2028.

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Rev Up to Recert: Harness the Skills to Power AI Infrastructure

Cisco Wireless

Introducing Rev Up to Recert: AI, featuring 34 hours of free learning, earning active Cisco certification holders up to 34 Continuing Education creditsfor free.

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EP148: DeepSeek 1-Pager

ByteByteGo

Build the API your users deserve (Sponsored) Creating a best in class API experience for your partners and customers shouldn't require an army of engineers. Speakeasy’s platform automates the generation of idiomatic SDKs, custom-branded docs, and robust test suites that are as good as what you'd build yourself. That means you can unlock API revenue while keeping your team focused on what matters most: shipping new products.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Cloudflare Incident on February 6, 2025

CloudFaire

Multiple Cloudflare services, including our R2 object storage , were unavailable for 59 minutes on Thursday, February 6th. This caused all operations against R2 to fail for the duration of the incident, and caused a number of other Cloudflare services that depend on R2 including Stream , Images , Cache Reserve , Vectorize and Log Delivery to suffer significant failures.

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Powered by Docker: Streamlining Engineering Operations as a Platform Engineer

Docker Blog

The Powered by Docker is a series of blog posts featuring use cases and success stories from Docker partners and practitioners. This story was contributed by Neal Patel from Siimpl.io. Neal has more than ten years of experience developing software and is a Docker Captain. Background As a platform engineer at a mid-size startup, Im responsible for identifying bottlenecks and developing solutions to streamline engineering operations to keep up with the velocity and scale of the engineering organiz

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FHRP Cisco Reading

Network Engineering

I'm currently going over reading material for First Hop Redundancy Protocols Hot Standby Virtual Router Redundancy I don't recall any of this being in CCNA, did I miss this or is it newly covered in CCNP Enterprise?

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Vertiv and Oxigen to develop new data centre

DCNN Magazine

Vertiv , a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, has announced that it is collaborating with Oxigen , a provider of data hosting, processing and distribution services, to design and implement Oxigen’s largest data centre. Vertivs power and thermal solutions deliver scalability and energy efficiency, and its services also provide comprehensive support, helping to position Oxigen as a benchmark for high-performance data centres in Spain.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Redefine Your Data Center with New Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switch Innovations

Cisco Wireless

Cisco announces Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches with embedded DPUs that integrate stateful services into the data center fabric at scale for greater simplicity, increased service throughput, and cost efficiency.

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How Netflix Built a Distributed Counter for Billions of User Interactions

ByteByteGo

Build AI Agents with Dynamiq in Just Hours (Sponsored) Break free from traditional no-code tool constraints and build multi-agents with a fully customizable low-code interface. Free plan lets you design, test, and deploy multi-agent systems at zero cost (no credit card required). Start instantly with pre-built agent templates , and extend functionality using our open-source Python package.

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Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents

CloudFaire

As engineers, were obsessed with efficiency and automating anything we find ourselves doing more than twice. If youve ever done this, you know that the happy path is always easy, but the second the inputs get complex, automation becomes really hard. This is because computers have traditionally required extremely specific instructions in order to execute.

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Introducing SAP Databricks

databricks

Today we are announcing a deep partnership with SAP which we think can be game changing for our industry. In short, it is.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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MTU size on physical and logical port in OSPF

Network Engineering

A single physical interface has multiple sub-interfaces (VLAN interfaces). These sub-interfaces are configured with IP addresses and OSPF. The MTU of the physical interface has been increased, but the MTU of the VLAN interfaces has not been changed. The MTU remained unchanged when I checked the OSPF hello packets in Wireshark. This Cisco OSPF implementation seems to rely on the MTU of the sub-interface.

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The benefits of thermal imaging for data centres

DCNN Magazine

Data centre maintenance teams have a big share in safeguarding the critical resource that customers and businesses depend upon. However, by utilising thermal imaging products from FLIR enable them to spot issues at an early stage before they turn into major problems. Guaranteeing uptime has become increasingly complex for data centres. With so much mechanical, electrical and electronic infrastructure under one roof, overheating is a major concern – not only because the infrastructure is no

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Cisco and Wiz Collaborate to Enhance Cloud Security: Tackling AI-Generating Threats in Complex IT Infrastructures

Cisco Wireless

Cisco is collaborating with Wiz. Together, they aim to improve cloud security for enterprises grappling with AI-generated threats in intricate IT landscapes.

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How Instagram Scaled Its Infrastructure To Support a Billion Users

ByteByteGo

Caching for Performance: Virtual Masterclass (Sponsored) Insider tips for navigating caching strategies and tradeoffs This masterclass shares pragmatic caching strategies for latency-sensitive use cases. We’ll explore a variety of caching options – how they’re architected, how that impacts their “sweet spot” and tradeoffs, as well as tips for working with them.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Building a Secure RAG with Python, LangChain, and OpenFGA

auth0

Learn how to use Okta FGA to secure your LangChain RAG agent in Python.

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Introducing transformWithState in Apache Spark™ Structured Streaming

databricks

Introduction Stateful stream processing refers to processing a continuous stream of events in real-time while maintaining state based on the events seen so far. This.

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How can routing protocols such as OSPF and RIP use the network layer

Network Engineering

I am currently reading the the network layer chapter in Kurose & Ross Computer Networking: a top down approach. I understand that one of the responsibilities (services) of the network layer is to provide host to host delivery of data and to achieve that goal the network layer uses routing protocols to populate forwarding tables in order for routers to know where to send data.

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MXT Holdings improves data centre connectivity in Mexico

DCNN Magazine

MXT Holdings ( MXT ), a telecommunications infrastructure company in Mexico that develops and operates neutral-host communication infrastructure assets, is deploying Ciena’s coherent routing innovations – and in the process, taking proactive measures to handle escalating traffic demands placed on its network driven by 5G, cloud-based applications, and the evolving digital landscape.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo