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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

We recently launched Kentik Synthetic Monitoring , a major new product feature that combines synthetic network testing with real-time traffic monitoring to provide thorough insight into network performance and reliability. IPv4 raw sockets are able to send the full packet starting with the IP header.

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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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RouterFreak on Kentik Network Performance Monitoring

Kentik

We really respected their thoroughness and the fact that they are practicing network engineers, so as we’ve come up with cool new gizmos in our product, we’ve asked them to extend their review. Following here, from their latest review, are some excerpts that focus on Kentik NPM, our enhanced network performance monitoring solution.

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Fascinating Facts from Kentik

Kentik

It’s also just one of the many interesting statistics that we run across as we operate our SaaS platform for network traffic analytics. Network Devices: Which Brands are Trending? Cisco Systems is by far the market leader in the overall IT Networking sector. Google maintains Internet-wide stats on the overall IPv6 adoption rate.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

For small or uncomplicated networks, BIND by itself is well suited to provide all DNS-related service functions. Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. Who Uses BIND? Benefits of Using BIND. BIND is customizable.

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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.

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Security Proof-of-work makes it to the Tor network. Patches for Linux have been released. Among other things, this change is intended to accelerate IPv6 adoption. It has a museum… And Flash games will run in a modern browser using Ruffle , a Flash Player emulator that is written in WebAssembly. Could it displace ARM ?

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