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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

Netflix Tech

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. The choice of transport protocols like GRPC, HTTPS & UDP is runtime dependent on characteristics of the instance placement.

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

BGP can enrich network traffic data to visualize traffic per BGP path for peering analytics and also to inject routes that enable DDoS mitigation capabilities such as RTBH and Flowspec. Moreover, each BGP session can be used as the transport to push mitigations , such as RTBH and Flowspec, triggered by alerting from the platform.

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NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2

Kentik

You could take the well-known data types like IPv4 and IPv6 and build a fast path for them. With templates out-of-band, the protocol would also be ‘re-sample-able’ in transport. Most of the data systems that primarily store JSON natively would melt if you tried to do flow analytics with them.