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08 October 2024
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.
24 September 2024
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.
25 July 2024
How Load Balancing Algorithms Work, and How to Choose the Right One
An introduction to the most widely used algorithms and use cases where they excel.
23 July 2024
The Many Content Caching Strategies and How to Use Them
A comprehensive introduction to content caching and implementation of caching strategies for fast and efficient content delivery at any scale.
18 July 2024
How Load Balancers Differ From Reverse Proxies, and When to Use Each
While reverse proxies do balance loads, they do a lot more than that, and there are often good reasons to use both.
11 July 2024
How to Speed Up and Secure Your Apps Using DNS Load Balancing
It’s a low-cost way to improve scalability of web apps that requires no additional hardware and can be effective for orgs of all sizes.
05 July 2024
How to Use Immutable Backups to Protect Your Data
Learn why immutable backups are vital for robust data protection and DR by examining their mechanism and explore best practices for integrating them into your resilience strategy.
18 June 2024
What Load Balancers Do at Three Different Layers of the OSI Stack
Understand load balancing methods at each of the layers and what to keep in mind when deciding which type of load balancer to deploy for your infrastructure.
06 June 2024
How API Gateways Differ from Load Balancers, and Which to Use
Get a deeper understanding of what these essential technologies behind web services do, and how and when they can be used together.
04 June 2024
There’s More to Your Cloud Backup Bill Than the Cost of Storage
The storage infrastructure itself is just the beginning.
09 May 2024
What to Know When Planning a Hybrid Cloud
A comprehensive look at all the questions you have to ask—and answer!—as you design an architecture that combines public clouds and dedicated infrastructure.
30 April 2024
How to Build Network Services in the User Space
Why we decided to process packets outside the OS kernel and what we’ve learned doing it.
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