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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 4

Kentik

Further Thoughts on Advertising Your Routes with BGP. That leaves only one really valid reason for single-homed networks to use BGP, which is to have more control in advertising routes. Advertising a route and then withdrawing that route is referred to as “flapping.”. One downside of flapping is that it’s contagious.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She has held a variety of positions, VP, Tech Lead and senior engineer working in online advertising, digital agencies, e-commerce, an art start-up, government digital service and infrastructure tooling at docker inc. Adi Polak is an experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the big data industry.

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Kentik CEO Avi Freedman with PacketPushers on NPM & DDoS

Kentik

So that if you see a problem, and you see that it looks like it’s a network, you can actually see, oh, is it the data center, is it my immediate upstream provider, or is it off in the middle? We’ve got an advertising technology customer, and ad tech is a really interesting space for network sophistication. Absolutely, it is.