CloudFaire

JANUARY 2, 2025

So lets talk about Stream Lives design, and how it leverages the distributed nature of Cloudflares network, rather than centralized locations as many other live services do. When the media content arrives at the Cloudflare server servicing the connection, it is first handled by a Spectrum application.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. Architecture.

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DCNN Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

Cost-effective backup ActiveProtect has been designed to protect everything in a single platform from devices, to Software-as-a-Service programmes, file servers and virtual machines. That is the rule that recommends having three copies of data, two different media and one off-site copy.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 9, 2022

Covid-19 and the transition to remote work, high-profile cyber security attacks and massive geo-political shifts have enhanced and intensified the need for new networking solutions, and vendors are quick to respond with new networking point solutions which address the problems de jour. Jeff Tantsura [link] Jeff is a Sr.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We are working toward making Threads compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we believe can shape the future of the internet – where peoples’ content exists in the fediverse and is platform-agnostic. But you can’t do that today on social media. But Threads is still evolving.

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CloudFaire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Websockets operate over a single, persistent TCP connection established between a client and server. Cloudflare has extensive support for Websockets across our network as well as in our AI Gateway. Instead, the client and the server establish a persistent, long-running connection to send and receive messages.

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Engineering at Meta

JULY 17, 2023

From a product perspective, we need to ensure that HDR is correctly preserved through our entire media pipeline to provide a quality user experience all the way from the creator’s device through our server-side video processing/storage and, ultimately, view-side delivery and playback. On Android the story was a bit different.

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Engineering at Meta

JUNE 12, 2024

In addition to wider use of traditional AI for things like ad targeting, we have also seen increasing numbers of large generative AI models that mimic almost-human intelligence in everything from human verbal interaction to the creation of pictures and other media. This transition has not been without its challenges.

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Kentik

JANUARY 24, 2022

Back in the 1990s, NetFlow was introduced on Cisco routers as a means to collect information about IP network traffic as it enters or exits an interface. Since then, network flows have been one of the best ways to gain insight into traffic. At most companies, there are multiple DNS servers to collect from and hundreds of routers.

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Kentik

AUGUST 22, 2016

The rise of the MP3 marked a transitional phase in which media players covered the dual roles of audio player and portable file storage. Now, from a music point of view, the smartphone or streaming media player is essentially just a network-connected audio converter.

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Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In its simplest form, we have three systems to support Facebook video delivery: ranking, server, and mobile: Ranking (RecSys) Recommends content that fulfills peoples interests (i.e., Previously, we had various user experiences, mobile client layers, server layers, and ranking layers for Watch and Reels.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Often, when speaking with network managers responsible for infrastructure within a multinational or global enterprise, I hear first-hand accounts of the impact of sluggish network performance. Similarly, slow networks can lead to painfully slow file transfers for large media files or CAD (computer-aided design).

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 20, 2024

But, as we’ve implemented AV1 for mobile RTC , we’ve also had to address a number of challenges including scaling, improving video quality for low-bandwidth users as well as high-end networks, CPU and battery usage, and maintaining quality stability. Back in 2018, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) standardized the AV1 video codec.

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Scott's Weblog

JANUARY 10, 2025

Networking Rasika Nayanajith has a detailed overview of Wi-Fi 7. posted a write-up on using Vault to provision TLS certificates onto a network appliance. Federico’s blog is another one I only recently discovered; there’s lots of great networking content here. Enough of that, though—on to the content!

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NW Kings

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Understanding TCP ports is essential for managing network traffic and ensuring effective communication. This blog will delve into what a TCP port is, how it works, its significance in networking, and the different types of ports, including well-known and dynamic ports. But what is a TCP port? Let us learn it in detail.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests. First, we deployed the storage engine across multiple storage media — currently RAM and flash disk.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A recent high severity Apache server vulnerability kicked off a frenzy of activity as security teams raced to patch their web servers. Every network needs the protection of an IPS. Network-based threats have become more widespread and an IPS is the right defensive mechanism to stop them.

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Rule 11

JULY 12, 2024

The gang’s time from initial access to draining data out of a Veeam server is shockingly fast; after which the attackers went on to deploy actual ransomware in less than a day. percent of fixed network traffic is carried on networks that employ it. percent of mobile traffic plus 21.21

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Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Our features have to work reliably and fail infrequently no matter what kind of phone someone is using, or how much memory their phone has, or whether theyre using Threads somewhere that has robust cellular coverage or a network that keeps dropping out. This is all measured in something we call TTNC, or time-to-network content.

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Kentik

MAY 24, 2017

This week in networking news, GE, HPE and LinkedIn are just a few of the companies pushing for open data center designs via the launch of a new nonprofit. Team Creates High-Speed Internet Lane for Emergency Situations (Phys.org) Emergency situations and natural disasters can disrupt networks with huge spikes of traffic.

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Kentik

JANUARY 19, 2018

This week Verizon invested in an Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) platinum membership. Here are those headlines and more: Verizon joins ONAP (SDxCentral) Verizon is the newest platnium member of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team. Carnegie Mellon is home to a $27.5M

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Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 14, 2024

For example, we have since migrated all of our media inference from TorchScript to use a PyTorch 2.0-based We started by looking at the data for previous traffic on our AI-generated media both at their launches and over time. While these optimizations were critical for our initial launch, we have continued to push the boundaries.

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Juniper

JANUARY 9, 2025

Official Juniper Networks Blogs Juniper-Konferenz: Fhrende IT-Expert:innen aus dem Hochschulbereich haben sich ausgetauscht Krzlich war Juniper Gastgeber eines hochkartig besetzten Treffens zum Thema Netzwerkbetrieb im Hochschulbereich. Dabei bekamen sie Fehlermeldungen, deren Ursprung sie nicht fanden.

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Akins IT

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

What is a Virtual Private Network? A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. A VP N creates a virtualized network between two physically separate networks. One of the core reasons that people use VPN's is to secure their network, while increasing their privacy. Do You Need Secure Access to Your Home Network?

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Kentik

JUNE 4, 2019

By the end of this post you should have a pretty good idea of how True Origin helps network operations and engineering, particularly for Internet Service Providers. The content comes into the ISP network from various sources via various paths with varying cost and performance. Is it linked to a specific content provider?

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

All too many vendors like to trumpet the promise of network functions virtualization (NFV). The resulting network is rapidly scalable, flexible, and benefits from dynamic resource allocation. The resulting network is rapidly scalable, flexible, and benefits from dynamic resource allocation. Why and what are the problems?

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Akins IT

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

With the advent of the Cloud, mobile applications, social media, the Internet of Things, and the latest and greatest emerging technologies, it can be challenging to find the correct entry point to better security. AkinsIT leverages the many components necessary to ensure a successful, accurate, and comprehensive network-wide audit.

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Rule 11

MAY 31, 2024

The company recently unveiled the next generation of custom-made chips to help power AI-driven rankings and recommendation ads on social media platforms. Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, also now is in the AI-focused processor game. Microsoft has a lot more than AI riding on Copilot+ PCs.

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Akins IT

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

For an example, a computer with a 500GB hard drive has a storage capacity of 500 gigabytes A network server with four 1TB drives, has a storage capacity of 4 terabytes. Storage capacity refers to how much disk space one or more storage devices provides. It measures how much data a computer system may contain.

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Confluent

AUGUST 20, 2019

Requests to the HTTP API could be received twice due to network issues. One possibility is to add an additional HTTP header to requests by which the HTTP server can identify whether a request was sent twice. Anything goes, as long as the client and the server agree. Idempotent event processing.

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Akins IT

MAY 18, 2020

Human error, for example, is the number one cause of service interruption, with server failure, storage failure, and power failure following it. Restoring from private cloud to on-prem is much faster than attempting to restore from public cloud to on-prem, as the files are already accessible in your network.

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Scott's Weblog

AUGUST 16, 2024

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. Servers/Hardware Permanent damage? Geoff Huston discusses DNS and UDP truncation.

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Heroku

AUGUST 14, 2024

Users send a flurry of one-click reactions to social media posts. For example: a web server, or a POS system, or a wearable fitness monitor. Modern applications have an unceasing buzz of user activity and data flows. Wearable tech and other IoT sensors work nonstop to transmit event data from their environments.

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Confluent

MARCH 4, 2019

We need something that can handle large amounts of data, something that can handle unstructured data coming from logs and social media, and data in their native form. The first layer would abstract infrastructure details such as compute, network, firewalls, and storage—and they used Terraform to implement that. CTO of CloudBank.

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Scott's Weblog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

I have a slightly bulkier list of links for you today, bolstered by some recent additions to my RSS feeds and supplemented by some articles I found through social media. Networking New to network automation? Ivan Pepelnjak has made publicly available the materials from his Network Automation 101 course.

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Akins IT

APRIL 26, 2022

Use letters, websites, toll-free numbers, public relations campaigns, or news media to disseminate information. Regular Risk Assessments Conduct network safety testing from outside sources. Clear Separation Between Network Components Verify that there is a separate network between servers.

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