Kentik

JUNE 14, 2021

Understanding network performance in your cloud environment is essential for maintaining cloud application performance and reliability. This blog highlights five critical cloud network monitoring imperatives for cloud engineers to put in place to ensure the health of public and hybrid cloud environments.

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ByteByteGo

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Instead you create an endpoint in your application server and provide it as a callback to the external service (such as a payment processor or a shipping vendor) Every time something interesting happens, the external service calls the endpoint and provides the information. API Vs SDK! It defines how software components should interact.

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Kentik

APRIL 16, 2023

One of the great successes of software development in the last ten years has been the relatively decentralized approach to application development made available by containerization, allowing for rapid iteration, service-specific stacks, and (sometimes) elegant deployment and orchestration implementations that piece it all together.

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Kentik

JUNE 7, 2023

Two exciting new capabilities help you quickly answer any question about your multi-cloud network: Kentik Cloud users can now collect, analyze, and visualize flow logs generated on AWS Transit Gateways. Centralized logs from AWS Transit Gateways don’t require access to flow logs for every attached VPC.

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Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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AWS Architecture

AUGUST 7, 2024

Update tenant configuration : SaaS applications store tenant configuration details such as tenant identifier and tier that are required for operation. Create a new identity store and associated application client that the frontend can use; after that, well need a mechanism to migrate users.

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Zynga

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Engineering games involves a deep understanding of multiple technologies, building highly dynamic content, interacting with multiple disciplines and having a constant eye on how the game impacts players in every way. Below are some of the key advantages and experiences one could gain by working on engineering within the games industry.

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Wahl Network

APRIL 25, 2024

In Platform Engineering with Vending Machines, Contracts, and Pipelines , I state that “building a platform capable of scale means planning for scale in the first place.” Platforms need to scale across the Sphere of Key Scaling Components (the core, ring of services, and applications or tenants across the edge).

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Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

With so many network boundaries being navigated (application, service, cloud providers, subnets, SD-WANs , etc.), network operators and engineers cast as wide a net as possible to source their telemetry. With the level of detail that application-level telemetry provides, operators can quickly answer: Is this even a network problem?

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Heroku

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Dive into the latest product innovations and personalized live demos showcasing Heroku and Data Cloud plus how Heroku can integrate with the MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway. Learn how other customers have successfully built and scaled their applications using Heroku. Interested in AWS+Heroku?

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Wahl Network

JANUARY 30, 2024

” Platform Contracts In Lessons Ive Learned Leading a Platform Engineering Team , I talk about “A Sphere of Key Scaling Components.” A bucket used to build artifacts for the application, such as packages or dependencies, with lifecycle rules established. Outputs from the service contract are very useful.

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ByteByteGo

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

📅 Meet your EOY deadlines – faster releases, zero quality compromises (Sponsored) If slow QA processes and flaky tests are a bottleneck for your engineering team, you need QA Wolf. Their AI-native platform , backed by full-time QA engineers, enables their team to create tests 5x faster than anyone else.

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Cloudera Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cloudera’s open data lakehouse, powered by Apache Iceberg, solves the real-world big data challenges mentioned above by providing a unified, curated, shareable, and interoperable data lake that is accessible by a wide array of Iceberg-compatible compute engines and tools.

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DoorDash Engineering

DECEMBER 5, 2023

DoorDash’s Engineering teams revamped Kafka Topic creation by replacing a Terraform/Atlantis based approach with an in-house API, Infra Service. The slowest step in that process was provisioning Kafka Topics, which involved on-call engineer approval and was prone to failure, further increasing the on-call load. Built atop Prometheus.

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CATO Networks

JULY 17, 2021

Gartner has answered that question by describing a SASE architecture as the convergence of multiple WAN edge and network security capabilities, delivered via a global cloud service that enforces a common policy on all enterprise edges : users, locations, and applications.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 14, 2022

It doesnt focus on new cutting-edge features such as addressing emerging threats or improving application performance. Traffic processing engines are at the core of many networking and security products including routers, SD-WAN devices, next generation firewalls, secure web gateways, IPS , CASB/DLP, and ZTNA products.

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Network Engineering

JANUARY 26, 2025

the router's applicable interfaces are: enp3s0 wan interface enp4s0 with static IP 192.168.2.2/24 24 routing table on the router has applicable entries: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 the gateway. routers applicable arp entries Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface 192.168.2.1

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Modern attacks use a growing arsenal of deceptive techniques that bypass traditional secure email gateways (SEGs) and email authentication measures, targeting organizations, employees, and vendors. Phishing is no longer just an email problem its a multi-channel, cross-application threat.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) DDoS attacks are cyber attacks that most often have the purpose of causing application downtime. Application layer. Common application layer attacks include HTTP floods and slowloris. Injection An injection attack is any vector that exploits input vulnerabilities in an application or network.

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Confluent

MAY 22, 2019

Most IoT-based applications (both B2C and B2B) are typically built in the cloud as microservices and have similar characteristics. It is helpful to think about the data created by the devices and the applications in three stages: Stage one is the initial creation, which takes place on the device, and is then sent over the network.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Apache Kafka is the standard for event-driven applications. Organizations that successfully build and run their own Kafka environment must make significant investments in engineering and operations to account for failover and security. All you have to do is write applications. Choose how and where to deploy.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This blog post goes over: The complexities that users will run into when self-managing Apache Kafka on the cloud and how users can benefit from building event streaming applications with a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Key characteristics of a fully managed service that you can trust for production and mission-critical applications.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Converged functionalities include SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), cloud-access security broker (CASB), DLP and secure web gateway (SWG). SASE reduces the risk of cybersecurity breaches and enables global access to applications and systems. These headsets are helping their engineers collaborate.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The Dutch engineering company had built a global wide area network (WAN) out of MPLS and Internet services connecting 17 locations 14 in Europe and 3 in the Asia Pacific with about 800 mobile and field employees. Cloud applications were starved for bandwidth as they were backhauled across a 10 Mbits/s connection to the datacenter.

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Kentik

MARCH 6, 2019

As the complexity of microservice applications continues to grow, it’s becoming extremely difficult to track and manage interactions between services. Understanding the network footprint of applications and services is now essential for delivering fast and reliable services in cloud-native environments.

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Vedcraft

JUNE 16, 2024

Click here to read about the applicability of Generative AI by product companies. This indicates in 2024 and beyond, there will be a surge of technical initiatives to build Generative AI applications meeting diverse business use cases and internal efficiencies.

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CATO Networks

MAY 23, 2024

On May 6 th , 2024, researchers from the Leviathan Security Group published an article detailing a technique to bypass most VPN applications, assigned as CVE-2024-3661 with a High CVSS score of 7.6. The malicious server is configured to use itself as the default gateway.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Convergence enables Cato to collapse multiple security solutions such as a next-generation firewall, secure web gateway, anti-malware, and IPS into a cloud service that enforces a unified policy across all corporate locations, users and data. Other features include WAN traffic protection and Internet traffic protection.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Today, enterprises must be prepared to address a wide variety of attacks including social engineering attacks, Internet-borne malware, and ransomware across all the different attack vectors that exist within modern networks. Additionally, a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine enables contextualization of traffic.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

The PoP is just a connection point a gateway, of sorts where the external world (i.e., It would typically be bound for a SaaS application perhaps one that isnt hosted in the same region or to your own datacenter or another branch office (i.e., Are we able to prioritize our key applications, use cases and workloads into our network?

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2024

However, the rise of SaaS applications, hybrid work, and global operations has created new challenges for MPLS-based networks, as their once-reliable architecture now fails to meet the demands of modern, cloud-centric environments. While SD-WAN eliminates limitations of MPLS, not all SD-WAN solutions are created equal.

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DoorDash Engineering

AUGUST 1, 2023

StatsD was originally developed and released by Etsy to aggregate and summarize application metrics. Community libraries We encouraged service owners and teams to use Prometheus native libraries to generate application metrics rather than using other metric facades. StatsD is a network daemon built in Node.js

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CATO Networks

JUNE 4, 2017

The lack of a global, SLA-backed backbone leaves SD-WANs unable to provide the consistent, predictable transport needed by real-time service and business-critical applications. As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 8, 2020

Theyll be on the network every workday for hours accessing enterprise applications, files, and data. Suddenly 100 engineers couldnt work anymore. Once inside the network, a hacker is only one administrator password away from access to sensitive applications and data. Once the VPN on our primary firewall rebooted.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 2, 2023

Global disconnect – Most manufacturers have global operations, with their HQ, production, engineering, suppliers and sales dispersed across the globe. SASE allows manufacturers to reduce the risk of cybersecurity breaches while delivering reliable, low latency, global access to applications and systems.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications. Visibility -- Historically enterprise networks had a router/firewall connected to the WAN as a gateway. 5G and SDN Capabilities Intersect.

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CATO Networks

JULY 27, 2021

The code, dependencies and artifacts needed for the application comprising the nearly 500MB deployment package must sum up to no more than 256MB (unzipped). Weve used the REST API in the API Gateway service, using GET for the FE Lambda since its input is just a single string entity. It enables up to 2,000 parallel queries.

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