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31 October 2024
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.
15 October 2024
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.
01 October 2024
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.
29 August 2024
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.
21 August 2024
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.
15 May 2024
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.
20 March 2024
The Tools for Controlling Cloud Cost and Their Limits
While there are best practices for keeping cloud costs under control, they only get you so far. But there is a way to go further.
14 February 2024
How the Different Data Platforms Differ
Many things are referred to as a “data platform.” Here’s a handy primer for those who are new to the space.
11 January 2024
Cloud or On Prem? In Genomics, It’s Good to Have Both
A hybrid cloud architecture we recently tested for genomic sequence data analysis can unlock the cloud’s power for life sciences.
19 December 2023
Comparing Platforms That Manage All the Clouds
Using more than one cloud gives you more options but adds a lot of management complexity. These tools are designed to help.
12 December 2023
On or Off the Cloud: a Checklist
What basic questions to ask when faced with the daunting task of an application infrastructure rethink.
15 November 2023
Why and When Dedicated Cloud Is the Way
More than the raw performance of bare metal, it provides the advantages of public clouds without the drawbacks of shared, general-purpose infrastructure.
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