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An Update on the Latest Changes to Metal Functionality

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Sunsetting Equinix Metal
25 November 2024 Operations

Sunsetting Equinix Metal

Recently, Equinix stopped commercial sales of Metal to focus on the solutions our customers have told us drive the most impact on their business, namely colocation, interconnection, and our hyperscale offerings. As such, with this announcement, we’ll move towards an orderly sunsetting of Equinix Metal at the end of June 2026.  
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31 October 2024 Operations

eBPF and How Tech Giants Use It to Uplevel Observability

Its low overhead and efficient data collection minimize the impact of observability on your systems while providing deep visibility into kernel-level events, network packets and system calls.
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15 October 2024 Operations

How to Use BGP Flowspec as Your Network’s Smart DDoS Shield

Flowspec uses BGP as the carrier for DDoS mitigation policies and the upstream service provider's network to enforce them at the edge.
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08 October 2024 Building the cloud

How Dedicated Cloud Differs from Public Cloud

What dedicated cloud is for, what you gain and what you give up when you choose to deploy your workload on single-tenant cloud infrastructure.
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01 October 2024 Operations

What to Know When Devising Your Multiregion Backup Strategy

An introduction to backup architectures and configurations, maintaining data consistency, optimizing recovery time objectives and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
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24 September 2024 Building the cloud

How BGP Selects the Best Route for Your Packets

Knowing how to manipulate BGP attributes enables you to maximize your network’s performance and ultimately improve your applications’ user experience.
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05 September 2024 Developers

How to Choose the Right Tools for Your Internal Developer Platform

An IDP is a product with a unique set of users, your developer team, and the process for selecting the right features isn’t unlike the process for planning a commercial product.
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29 August 2024 Operations

BGP Hijacking and How to Guard Against It

It’s not a new or particularly sophisticated attack method, but it remains quite effective and devastating for the victim.
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27 August 2024 Developers

Learn By Doing: An Observability Best-Practices Tutorial

Instrument a demo app and implement an observability stack with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.
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21 August 2024 Operations

BGP Confederations vs. Route Reflectors and How to Choose the Right One

Each method has its use cases in large networks, but the crucial factor is whether your AS is large or very large.
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13 August 2024 Developers

How to Tune Redis to Handle Big Spikes in Traffic

Configure memory allocation, connection settings, data structure usage and more to optimize your distributed caching layer to withstand wildly fluctuating workloads.
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06 August 2024 Developers

How an Event-Driven Architecture Ensures App Speed and Scalability

What you need to know about this go-to design pattern for distributed real-time apps, including an example of what implementation may look like using Apache Kafka.