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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn By Doing: An Observability Best-Practices Tutorial
Instrument a demo app and implement an observability stack with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
