aoc, ai networking, and blockchain skepticism (20220911)

links, etc

• AOC on the Fight for Abortion Rights and Whether She’ll Ever Be President | GQ

  just a straight up solid interview. i’m a fan.

• Research talk: Cloud networking for a post-Moore’s Law era - Microsoft Research

  this disgorged itself from my reading/watch queue. there’s some interesting tidbits in this video. in case you missed the memo from the past couple of week’s SIGCOMM paper releases. optics and direct connection are the new hotness, particularly for AI workloads. oh, so are straight-up big-ass fabrics.

• When SDN and blockchain shake hands | Communications of the ACM

  i tried really, really hard to wade through this with an open mind. i followed the more promising links referenced and i still don’t see how things get better with a blockchain bolted on. all of the issues we have with SDN and trusted controllers just get worse and who are these people allowing untrusted applications running on their controllers?

  publish or perish, i guess?