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Network Architect vs Network Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

Should you be a network engineer vs network architect? There are thousands of job opportunities available in the IT industry for network engineers and network architects. Thus, in this article, we will help you by telling you about the difference between network engineer and network architect.

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

On May 27 of this year, Gartner Research Director Sanjit Ganguli released a research note titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Leave Gaps in Cloud Monitoring.” You’d put a few others — I emphasize “few” because these appliances were and are not cheap — at other major choke points in and out of the network.

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 3

Kentik

In particular we’ve learned that speaking or advertising BGP to your service providers and/or peers lets you do two things: Make semi-intelligent routing decisions concerning the best path for a particular route to take outbound from your network (otherwise you would simply set a default route from your border routers into your service providers).

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The Why and How of Interface Classification

Kentik

Classifying Network Interfaces Enhances Engineering and Business Insights. Given that Kentik was founded primarily by network engineers, it’s easy to think of our raison d’etre in terms of addressing the day-to-day challenges of network operations. A great example of this duality is a feature called. BGP, GeoIP, SNMP, etc.)

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Best of…: Classic WTF: The Glitch Who Stole Christmas

The Daily WTF

Every dev down in Devville, the tall and the small, Would log on together, network lights blinking. They’d stand, lan-on-lan. But, since load balancers are robust, there was none to be found. And the devs would start playing! They’d play! And they’d play! And they’d PLAY! Did that stop the old PM?

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