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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

Performance, reliability, and security were core concerns and some of the key reasons why we chose to develop ksynth in Rust. Ksynth uses raw sockets for ping and traceroutes, and supports both IPv4 and IPv6, which adds a considerable amount of complexity. Managing agents in Kentik Synthetic Monitoring.

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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. Upgraded interface and server logs.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. Network and development teams frequently use it, so knowing how to configure and use BIND will prove a necessary skill in either job. Why is BIND Valuable to Understand?

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Many companies are building platform engineering teams as a means of making software developers more effective. Astro is yet another open source web framework that’s designed for high performance and ease of development. Patches for Linux have been released. Here are some ideas about getting started with platform engineering.

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

Apps Associates

Price reductions on Amazon EC2 instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) OS – Starting May 28 th , 2022 there will be a price reduction on SLES On-Demand EC2 instances which can result in savings of up to 24% vs. the current On-Demand rates. Before today, customers could add up to 5 IPv4 CIDR blocks and 1 IPv6 block.

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

Costas started off by giving a short introduction to how Kentik uses BGP, in order to develop the technical requirements, which include: Kentik peers with customers, preferably with every BGP-speaking device that sends flows to our platform. we never initiate connections to the customers) on servers running Debian GNU/Linux.

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