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Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

Linux Academy

I’m happy to announce that Cloud Playground is now available on Linux Academy! Seven years ago we launched our first Cloud Servers interface providing the ability for Linux Academy students to spin up virtual machines on demand as part of their membership. Major Upgrades Brought by Cloud Playground.

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DNS Resolution: A Primer

taos

So from the top, “I’m on a Linux system. On Linux specifically, the browser will call getaddrinfo()² to spark up the system’s internal resolver. 2] Note this used to be gethostbyname(), and became getaddrinfo() due to the need for IPv6 support. I punch taos.wpengine.com into a web browser¹ and press enter.

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RouterFreak on Kentik Network Performance Monitoring

Kentik

Recently we reviewed Kentik Detect , a very customizable, flexible and scalable cloud based NetFlow collector. Kentik’s NPM solution goes beyond typical NetFlow traffic analysis in that it is enabled through the installation of an nProbe application on Linux based servers. Last but not least, both IPv4 and IPv6 are available.

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New Features and Benefits with AWS – Quarterly Update – Q2– 2022

Apps Associates

Apps Associates prides itself on being a trusted partner for the management of critical business needs, providing strategic consulting and managed services for Oracle, Salesforce, integration , analytics and multi-cloud infrastructure. GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 This provides you with more options in addition to the db.t2.micro

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

Last month at DENOG11 in Germany, Kentik Site Reliability Engineer Costas Drogos talked about the SRE team’s journey during the last four years of growing Kentik’s infrastructure to support thousands of BGP sessions with customer devices on Kentik’s multi-tenant SaaS (cloud) platform. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node.

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