Remove Hardware Remove Infrastructure Remove Load Balancer Remove WAN
article thumbnail

Network Architect vs Network Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

And they feel confident to work with LAN, WAN, and also the cloud networks. Their primary role is to ensure and design the secure network design and infrastructure that fulfills its goal. And they are responsible for building the infrastructure as per the design that the company approves. Who is Network Engineer?

Network 147
article thumbnail

Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure

Kentik

Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. Being able to leverage cloud services positions companies to scale in cost and time-prohibitive ways without the infrastructure, distribution, and services of cloud providers.

Network 97
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

Highly available networks are resistant to failures or interruptions that lead to downtime and can be achieved via various strategies, including redundancy, savvy configuration, and architectural services like load balancing. No matter how you slice it, additional instances, hardware, etc., Resiliency.

Network 104
article thumbnail

eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Kentik

Since the kernel is basically the software layer between the applications you’re running and the underlying hardware, eBPF operates just about as close as you can get to the line-rate activity of a host. Typical application, network, or infrastructure monitoring can’t easily capture the information we want from containers.

article thumbnail

Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product

Kentik

Cloud providers have done such a good job of building resilient networks, with layers of amazing virtualization on top, that network hardware failures rarely become the problem of the network engineer. The SD-WAN systems, the DDoS scrubbers, and the intrusion detection appliances. People Think That the Network Matters Less.

Network 52