Podcast | Traceroute - Episode 2: Silicon
Synopsis When we picture computing technology in the 70’s and 80’s, we think of nerdy, ambitious, young visionaries, burning the midnight oil in some suburban garage, striving to revolutionize the world by perfecting the motherboard. And the material that would eventually ignite that revolution? Silicon. In episode 2, we take a closer look at the material that changed the world. From the earliest discoveries at Bell Labs to the cutting-edge processors that run the Cloud, silicon has become the material that democratized access to information and gave rise to the technology we know and rely on today. Let us know your thoughts below!6.7KViews0likes0CommentsPermissons Issue
I recevved the above error while trying to add a workvisit request. I'm doing some integration testing and trying to perform some negative tests so my software is able to report failures accurately. The error in itself is not really very informative so if anyone else who has seen this knows the cause I'd love to know! { "errors": [ { "code": "EQX-161-403", "message": "Insufficient permission to access the resource or invoke the request." } ], "ticketId": "190806075245093" }6.2KViews0likes9CommentsPodcast | Traceroute - Episode 8: When the lights go out
Synopsis How do we make technology that lasts? In this episode, Grace Ewura-Esi and Shweta Saraf join Producer John Taylor as he talks with two cutting-edge technologists who are trying to extend the life of the hardware infrastructure around us. From a cell phone tower that can be installed on your roof (and repaired just as easily), to a clock that is built to last ten thousand years, we uncover the common threads that run through technology that’s built to last. Woven in this framework is the story of Sandra Rodriguez, who worked tirelessly to restore civilization—as well as hope itself—to the island of Puerto Rico with the help of the only piece of hardware infrastructure that withstood the powerful forces of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Let us know your thoughts below!5.6KViews2likes1CommentCFP Readiness for Equinix Demo Day
⛔Closing May 5th The May 5th CFP closing date is fast approaching for Demo Day. Submissions and edits to submissions can be made at Equinix Demo Day 2023 Call for Proposals. Whether you've expressed interest, submitted a draft CFP, or already began working on your demo, here are some considerations to make your CFP standout and make your presentations memorable and actionable. 🔨 Nail the theme The event focus is Equinix integration with talks and demos where the code is shown and is user repeatable. Some example scenarios: A product that includes cloud provider integrations giving it the ability to deploy and manage Equinix resources. This may take advantage of public IaC (Infrastructure as Code), Kubernetes controllers, or SDK (Go, Python, Java) tools for Equinix Metal. Prove your project is resilient. Show it. Destroy it. Show how it can be reprovisioned. Can your project be brought back up without careful attention? A user case story or journey is told. How is this story a unique or common experience? How was integration with the platform utilized? What challenges were presented and overcome by this integration? Tell us more about the developer experience. What made Equinix the right choice for this project? What features would have made this smoother? What features made this shine? How did the developer support, the online community, documentation, tools, or platform features provide value to your organization, product, or project. If the product is a managed service or closed source, these examples would help to make the demo more applicable to the event theme: Helper code and documentation (a tool assisted guide or workshop) reproduces the environment and demonstrates applications running on this product integration. A story about the development process of the integration and the lessons learned Additional routes to explore for this event (fitting open source projects well): How does this solution stack up with alternatives in the ecosystem What design and development choices were made for this project How has the community size and adoption changed What are some of the open challenges past or present, how have they been overcome 🧰 Share your Toolbox There are several ways to publish your integration to get early eyes on it and share it with the community. Our first choice for projects like this is GitHub. Consider the following repositories on the Equinix Labs GitHub organization as a place to park your integration or a template for your project: Equinix Workshop - Create a workshop using this template. Once you've customized the project, enable GitHub Pages and the workshop will be publicly hosted and available. Terraform Template - This template bakes in our best practices and is ready-made for publishing an Equinix Terraform module Terraform Equinix Labs - If you want to share your project with other users of Equinix and turn that project into a workshop, take a look here and open a PR adding your project as a sub-module. Terraform Kubernetes Addons - If your project can run in any Kubernetes environment running on Equinix Metal and has Equinix resource requirements, submit your project as an add-on here so others can take advantage of your integration. Do you have another location in mind? Let us know. 🦺 Pass Inspection As the hosts of the event, we believe the value of any particular product can be demonstrated through open integrations. Our particular focus is on the capability to integrate with Equinix in a user demonstrable and reproducible way, along with the capabilities unlocked through those integrations. The review panel will process CFPs with these considerations. Keep in mind, other CFPs will target common user scenarios especially on network Infrastructure and edge compute automation. While event presentations are not in a product competition, for the purposes of the CFP review, there is a competition of compelling stories. The more engaging we believe those stories fit our user and engineering audience, the more they demonstrate the themes of integrations with Equinix in repeatable ways, the better the chance will be for the CFP to be accepted. The best presentations will be ones where the practitioner viewer is compelled to pull down the discussed project and start experimenting with it to deliver their projects. The presentation, including demos or integrations, does not need to be ready at the time the CFP is submitted. A CFP may be tentatively accepted with the recommendation for a different format or criteria for improving the fit. We will be considering alternate presentation formats for CFPs including panels, lightning talks, and workshops. Tentative acceptance communications will start on May 10th with final acceptance communicated on May 12th. 🧱 Build Your Story Once accepted, we want to have the opportunity to field test your work and storytelling in an advocacy stream or a recorded solution demo. The advocacy live stream is the perfect environment for an early, rough-edges, walkthrough. For demo day, we encourage (but do not require) ironed presentation videos to be submitted no later than two weeks ahead of the event. This will help to avoid any on-air mishaps such as a missed step, flakey builds or runs, and network or availability issues. Presentation windows should leave space for discussion during and after. Another format we can explore is to have the recording voiced over live by the presenter with an event host providing real-time feedback. In this case, the sooner pre-recordings can be offered the better. 🏗️ More Opportunities There are more opportunities for collaboration through presentations and demos on Equinix. This includes streams on Equinix Labs Live and recordings targeted at our solution teams. Future events may provide a better audience for talks and demos that we can't fit into this event. 🚧Demo Site The event page for Demo Day 2023 (equinix.com) is up. As the event nears, we'll be reaching out to CFP submitters with more details on preparation and ways to spread the word. If you haven't already, subscribe to the Equinix Developers YouTube channelwhere you can find playlists of our previous live streamed events: Uncensored GIFEE Day Proximity Dates to remember: CFP Closes: May 5, 2023 Tentative Acceptance: May 10, 2023 Acceptance: May 12, 2023 Pre-recordings submitted: June 7, 2023 Live Streaming: June 21, 2023. See you there! Participants must agree to follow a code of conduct.5.5KViews3likes0CommentsAnsible, Terraform, both?
Hi Community, I wanted to start a chat around some dev ops tools that we know many of our customers use. I'll throw a few questions below to get us started but feel free to go off topic if you want to discuss something outside of these questions. Does your organization use Ansible, Terraform, or both? Are there other automation tools that you use or prefer? What do you like/dislike about each of these tools? How can we improve the user experience when using these tools with Platform Equinix?5.2KViews2likes0CommentsNew Podcast | Traceroute - Check it out!
The Podcast for digital pioneers Traceroute is a fascinating look into the inner workings of our digital world. Technical Storyteller, Grace Andrews, examines the real people, the social changes, and the hardware innovations that built and scaled the internet. Listen on:Apple| Spotify| RSS Community Posts: Episode 1: Interconnection Episode 2: Silicon Episode 3: Networks Episode 4: Wireless Episode 5: Open Source Episode 6: Sustainability Episode 7: Compute5.1KViews1like0CommentsFail to get locations from Work Visit API
Hi all, this is the error I'm getting when calling /v1/orders/workvisit/locations { "errors": [ { "code": "EQX-161-500", "message": "The system had encountered an unexpected problem and we are tracking it with error code." } ], "ticketId": "201023052138751" } Any ideas?5.1KViews0likes7CommentsCould our mistakes be as important to technological development as our ideas?
No matter the layers in your stack there’s one inevitability about all of our systems: errors. Misunderstandings, miscalculations, and mishaps are so much a part of the human experience, they can’t help but get baked into the increasingly complex socio-technical systems that we create. Historically we’ve always aimed to reduce our bug counts or have fewer incidents, but what if we instead, thought of these errors as opportunities to better refine our understandings of how our systems interact with the world around them? Maybe, in fact, our mistakes are at least as important to technological development as our innovative ideas? In this fascinating episode of Traceroute, we start back in 1968, when “The Mother of All Demos” was supposed to change the face of personal computing…before the errors started. We’re then joined by Andrew Clay Shafer, a DevOps pioneer who has seen the evolution of “errors” to “incidents” through practices like Scrum, Agile, and Chaos Engineering. We also speak with Courtney Nash, a Cognitive Neuroscientist and Researcher whose Verica Open Incident Directory (VOID) has changed the way we look at incident reporting.5KViews2likes1CommentFilter "portName" on connection list not working
Hello, for theendpoint GET https://api.equinix.com/ecx/v3/l2/seller/connections I use it with the profileId filter and I get back many results.I go from page to page to list the connection I have on one specific port. I would like to reduce those calls using the filter portName.However the result is always empty : { "isFirstPage": true, "isLastPage": true, "totalCount": 0, "pageSize": 20, "content": [], "pageNumber": 0 } Have anyone succeeded in getting this to work ? Best regards,5KViews0likes7CommentsHow have your cloud migrations gone historically? Share your story!
We recently published a blog (here) called "How Did My Cloud Bill Get So High?" which focused on choosing the best workload placement based on business value, cost and risks. How have your cloud migrations gone historically? Did you migrate from colocation or something else? What were the best (or worst) parts of your migration? Let us know your stories in the comments!4.7KViews1like0Comments