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EP141: How to Ace System Design Interviews Like a Boss?

ByteByteGo

Focus on attributes like the number of users, traffic, storage/memory needs, and compute and networking requirements. Unicast vs Broadcast vs Multicast vs Anycast These are 4 network communication methods you must know. Used in Address Resolution Protocol, DHCP, and NTP Multicast Sender to a specific group of devices in a network.

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The Recap: Kentik at Networking Field Day 19

Kentik

On Friday we presented at Networking Field Day 19. This is an event we love because, well, NFD delegate Ethan Banks of Packet Pushers summarized it nicely: So What’s New at Kentik? Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman kicked off NFD 19 with his take on how networks are changing. Watch the segment. Varied security threats.

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Weekend Reads 071924

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On the other hand, these same minimal overheads imply that DNS over UDP cannot perform prompt detection of packet loss and cannot efficiently defend itself against various approaches to tampering with the DNS, such as source address spoofing, payload alteration and third-party packet injection.

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Technology Short Take 181

Scott's Weblog

From networking to security and from hardware to the cloud, there’s something in here for just about everyone. Networking Leon Adato has a great piece on transitioning from being a network engineer to being a cloud engineer. Geoff Huston discusses DNS and UDP truncation. Servers/Hardware Permanent damage?

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Automate Remotely Triggered Black Hole DDoS Protection in Under an Hour

Kentik

In the wake of the recent takedown of DNS provider Dyn, it’s common knowledge that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious and growing threat to the Internet and its component networks. A common fallback is to rely on manually defending your network with Remote Triggered Black Hole (RTBH).

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The Future of DDoS Protection in an IoT World

Kentik

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a massive threat to network infrastructure as already seen in widely publicized IoT-based DDoS attacks. Another Mirai botnet variant was used in extortion attacks against a number of banks and Internet service providers in the United Kingdom and Germany.

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How to Monitor Packet Loss and Latency in the Cloud

Kentik

Or standing in line at the bank or a department store and when the clerk says, “The system is really slow today.” You have to remember that ping rides on top of ICMP, and in a congested network it is one of the first protocols to get dropped by a busy router. These packet retransmits introduce latency.

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