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Thinking About Glue

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

IPv4 desperately needs to be replaced (and IPv6 has been around since 1995), but IPv6 has been “5 years in the future” for two decades now. Programming is ultimately about gluing things together, whether they’re microservices or programming libraries. Glue development is software development.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

Netflix Tech

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Sonar is an IPv6 and IPv4 address identity tracking service. What is BPF?

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Can VPC Lattice replace AWS Transit Gateway?

Xebia

VPC Lattice offers a new mechanism to connect microservices across AWS accounts and across VPCs in a developer-friendly way. The developers creating the microservices typically don’t like to spend time on network configurations and look for network specialists to set up connectivity. The answer is: maybe.

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

Apps Associates

Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) – Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on new and existing RDS instances. This provides you with more options in addition to the db.t2.micro

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