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Why You Need to Monitor BGP

Kentik

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a fundamental part of sending data over the internet. Without BGP, there would be no way to scale the internet or even make it work at all. In this case, you want to be sure that your routes are correctly advertised and reachable following the change. Proactive Monitoring. What Can Go Wrong?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 26th, 2019

High Scalability

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). billion : FTC Facebook fine; 1.56 Eduards Sizovs : Be the company that says: we are hiring mentoring. ??? You know the drill.

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Mind Your MANRS: A Safer Internet Through Secure Global Routing

Kentik

MANRS, or the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security, is an initiative of the Internet Society to help secure internet peering relationships and ultimately help secure global routing. MANRS outlines simple, concrete actions organizations can take, tailored to their role on the Internet….”

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Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

CloudFaire

The Internet is designed to provide multiple paths between two endpoints. Attempts to exploit multi-path opportunities are almost as old as the Internet, culminating in RFCs documenting some of the challenges. As a result, Internet devices usually use a single path and let the routers handle the path selection. 4321 hmac 0x.,nop,nop],

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

We’re sharing our latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns targeting businesses across the internet, including threat indicators to help raise our industry’s collective defenses across the internet. For more security tips, visit our Newsroom.

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Network AF, Episode 2: Backbone engineering and interconnection with Nina Bargisen

Kentik

Eventually this took her to the internet division of TDC where she worked on products for enterprises looking to host video advertising, shared hosting of video files, and eventually livestreaming services. And overall, Nina is optimistic about the edge because of how much the cloud has changed the internet.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 1

Kentik

Designed before the dawn of the commercial Internet, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a policy-based routing protocol that has long been an established part of the Internet infrastructure. Why is an understanding of BGP helpful in understanding Internet connectivity and interconnectivity? Introducing BGP.