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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Pingball
You know that Netflix, Spotify, Meta, YouTube and so on all have data centers storing content. You know that “cloud” is a thing. (Perhaps you even deploy and run applications in the cloud!) But how does a video that lives in a cloud data center somewhere in the middle of the high desert in Oregon end up on your phone in Oakland? How does it get there so fast? Pingball is a journey through the vast, endlessly fascinating physical infrastructure that’s become a vital organ of our entire civilization.
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.
Latency and Throughput, Your Network’s Vital Signs
Analyzing these two metrics is the first step in making sure you’re using all the bandwidth that’s available to you.
