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Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 2: How Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media Are Supporting Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

Last week Kentik hosted its second virtual panel on scaling networks and services during COVID-19. As our moderator, Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman was joined by network leaders from Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media, namely: Christian Kaufmann, VP of Network Technology, Akamai.

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Threads has entered the fediverse

Engineering at Meta

As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from the fediverse.

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Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe

Engineering at Meta

Meta servers push messages to connected clients over a persistent connection. Third-party servers are responsible for hosting any media files their client applications send to Meta clients (such as image or video files).

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Included in the withdrawn prefixes were the IP addresses of Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers, rendering them unreachable. So what happened? which is routed as 129.134.30.0/24 24 and 129.134.30.0/23.

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The New Normals of Network Operations in the Year Ahead

Kentik

In the following blog post, I summarize what I presented in my PTC panel entitled Strategies to Meet Network Needs. New Normals of Network Operations in the Year Ahead. Acquiring servers was a big problem in the beginning of the pandemic - fans from one country, motherboards from another, hard disks from yet another.

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Ukraine’s Wartime Internet from the Inside

Kentik

Ark consists of servers located around the world continuously performing traceroutes to randomly selected IP addresses. One of those Ark servers is located in Kyiv. CAIDA graciously provided the data generated from this server to Kentik for the following analysis. 185.64.45.207 Miranda-Media Ltd 201776 76.742 9.

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Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure

Engineering at Meta

We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extract high throughput and reliability for various AI workloads. Network At Meta, we handle hundreds of trillions of AI model executions per day. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training.