Under the Hood: Kill Bill
It’s a strange part of building a platform, but most customers only hear from you when they sign up or get an invoice.Our team is focused on the second touchpoint, building for a scale of billions of dollars. Happily, we’ve done it before!
The world of tech: a beautiful game.
Alice Sowerby breaks down the two fundamental domains in tech: "The Domain of Experts" and "The Domain of Emergence". Both are challenging in nature, and both are needed.
The Power of Interconnection and a Creative Mind
As a trained classical musician and now professional marketer, I'm on a journey to bring authenticity and curiosity to my work. At Equinix, I've found magic at the intersection of creativity and technology.
Optimizing Your Work with High-Core Count Machines
Server processors from Ampere, AMD, and Intel have increased dramatically in core counts in recent years, and the trend is continuing. What can you do with so many cores, and what are the pitfalls?
The Wind on your Back: On Biking, Clearing the Mind, and Letting Go
Part of a podcast series that spotlights the passions and outside-of-work lives of Metal employees. This week, Linda Hemerik shares a peek into her life.
Inside Our Network: Peering
Years ago, Adam Rothschild published a blog post about “why we peer” at what was then Packet. Since then, peering has become a critical part of our operations at Equinix Metal. Here’s how it works and where we are going.
In the Trenches with VMware and Fabric
Are you an enterprise looking to pair the flexibility of cloud with the benefits of running your own infrastructure? Good news! In this post we’ll dive into trenches with VMware on Equinix Metal, and how a dash of Fabric on top can help you come out on top.
Making Accessibility Fundamental in Design
Designing with accessibility in mind benefits everyone, but is often overlooked, misunderstood, or poorly implemented. Here's how we can build better products that serve everybody by making accessibility a principle in design.
Under the Hood: Unlocking Simplicity with Metros
In this post, we’ll dive into our new Metros feature: what it means, how it works, and why it’s a big shift under the hood that most users may never notice.
Putting Equinix Metal to the Test (Part 1)
How to create an Arista Leaf/ Spine Cloud On-Ramp at Equinix–without ever deploying hardware.
Kitty-boom-bah-kitty-BAH: On Colombian Dance and Heritage
Part of a podcast series that spotlights the passions and outside-of-work lives of Metal employees. This week, Jayson Durango shares a peek into his life.
You May Not Require Kubernetes, But You Do Need Kubernetes
We don’t need no Kubernetes; we don’t need no kubectl.
May the Fourth Be With You
Fans of adventures in a galaxy far, far away unite every May 4 to celebrate Star Wars Day. The punny timing is chosen because May the Fourth sounds a lot like the beginning of the famous Jedi saying, “May the Force Be With You.”
Great Things from Small Beginnings
Our small team deployed over two dozen new Metal locations in less than 12 months. Here’s how it went and what we learned. Plus pictures!
Our Customer Success Toolbox
If there is one constant in life, it is that we’re all on a journey to find the perfect tool - the one to rule them all.In order for us to provide a magical customer experience, our Metal customer success team needs its bows, axes, and swords — and also our blue swords, of course.
Leaping Ahead with OpenBMC
Equinix Metal is venturing into new territory as we look to bring future-forward software practices to the arcane world of BMCs and firmware.
Building Momentum with Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell, the open source and battle tested bare metal provisioner that powers Equinix Metal, is flourishing as an open source project. In addition to inspiring new features for more use cases, transparency has helped ensure we’re challenging existing technical constructs for the better.
It’s Good Stuff: On Biking, Traveling, and Not Being Scared of Sheep
Part of a podcast series that spotlights the passions and outside-of-work lives of Metal employees. This week, Cristina Buendia shares a peek into her life.
Driving Sustainability with Delicious Results
Spring is a season of new beginnings, and for Equinix Metal, new ideas. With the sound of birds in the air and new blossoms budding on the trees, our creative energies naturally veered away from powerpoints and campaigns to more wholesome fare. More on that in a minute!
Breaking Bond
Imagine that you’re a mild-mannered, born-in-the-cloud infrastructure engineer. Suddenly, your world turns upside down and you’re deploying powerful, physical, dedicated bare metal. How can you make the most of your new infrastructure reality? It’s time for breaking bond!