The Hedge Russ White
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A wide ranging network engineering podcast. The Hedge covers technology to life as a network engineer, Internet wide issues to small scale networks.
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Is Open Source a Market Failure?
Is Open Source Software (OSS) a market failure? What does OSS add to the market that cannot be accomplished in other ways? What happened to the F (Free)? Join us for this roundtable episode of the Hedge.
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-224.mp3
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The Political Side of the IETF
Listen in as Geoff Huston, Tom, and Russ discuss how the IETF, governments, and political movements interact when creating standards and guiding the future of the Internet.
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-223.mp3
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Get out there and publish!
Eric Chou joins Tom and Russ to talk about the importance of creating content, and the many tools and ideas you can use to get out there and publish. You've heard us talk about this a lot--now it's time to get out there and publish.
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-222.mp3
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What about energy aware protocols?
A lot of people are spending time thinking about how to make transport and control plane protocols more energy efficient. Is this effort worth it? What amount of power are we really like to save, and what downside potential is there in changing protocols to save energy? George Michaelson joins us from Australia to discuss energy awareness in protocols.
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-221.mp3
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The Cost of the Cloud
Cloud services are all the rage right now, but are they worth it? There are many aspects to the question, and the answer is almost always going to be "it depends." Do you really need to spin up capacity more quickly than you can buy hardware and get it running? Do you really need to be able to spin capacity down without leaving any hardware behind? Is cloud really the best use of your team's time and talent?
David Heinemeier Hansson joins Tom and Russ to talk about the economics and uses of cloud, and why his company has moved away from public cloud services.
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-220.mp3
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Are we there yet?
We've been talking about many of the same things in networking since the late 1980s--autonomous, self-driving, autonomic, etc.--and yet ... those things all still seem like some sort of Jetson's cartoon episode. Why aren't we there yet? Are these even the right goals?
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-219.mp3
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