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Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures
Slack migrated most of the critical user-facing services from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. The move was triggered by the impact of networking outages affecting a single availability zone, causing user-impacting service degradation. The new architecture allows incrementally draining all the traffic away from the affected availability zone within 5 minutes.
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Google Eliminates Exit Fees and Advocates against Restrictive Cloud Licensing
Google recently announced that it will eliminate exit fees for customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises.
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Amazon Route 53 Resolver Introduces DNS over HTTPS Support for Enhanced Security and Compliance
AWS recently announced that Amazon Route 53 Resolver will support using the Domain Name System (DNS) over HTTPS (DoH) protocol for both inbound and outbound Resolver endpoints.
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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%
LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.
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Cloudflare Claims Migration to Their Services Can Reduce Network Carbon Emissions by 78-96%
A study conducted by the consultancy firm Analysys Mason suggests that shifting networking and security workloads to Cloudflare can significantly reduce network carbon emissions. According to the report, Cloudflare’s networking products can help companies lower their carbon emissions and meet sustainability objectives.
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Cross-Cloud Network: Google Introduces Platform to Connect Applications across Clouds
During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, the cloud provider announced Cross-Cloud Network, a solution to connect applications across different clouds. The new platform aims to simplify multi-cloud networking with a focus on speed and security.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Application Gateway for Containers - a new application (layer 7) load balancing and dynamic traffic management product for workloads running in a Kubernetes cluster. It extends Azure's Application Load Balancing portfolio and is a new offering under the Application Gateway product family.
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Microsoft Azure Cross-Region (Global) Load Balancer Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure cross-region (Global) Load Balancer in all Azure public and national cloud regions.
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EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint Enables Secure Connectivity between Public and Private Networks
AWS recently announced Amazon EC2 Instance Connect (EIC) Endpoint, a new feature that allows users to connect securely to their instances and other Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources from the Internet.
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Tweaking Network Latency for Search with HTTP/3 at Dropbox
Dropbox recently experimented with HTTP/3 to improve network latency. Harnessing the enhanced head-of-line blocking in HTTP/3, the team at Dropbox observed a notable reduction in latency, particularly at the 90th percentile (p90) and higher.
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Google Cloud Expands Cloud Interconnect Portfolio and Enhances Networking Capabilities
Recently Google Cloud announced a significant expansion of its Cloud Interconnect portfolio by unveiling Cross-Cloud Interconnect. The new offering enables organizations to connect any public cloud with Google Cloud securely and efficiently, allowing seamless application deployment across multiple clouds and simplified SaaS networking in a multicloud environment.
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Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity
Announced in preview at the latest re:Invent conference, Amazon VPC Lattice is now generally available, with new capabilities for service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring. The pricing model raised some concerns in the community.
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Computer Networks: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries - Radia Perlman at QCon London
Radia Perlman, EMC Fellow and one of the pioneers of early network design, presented a keynote at QCon London that explored how networking protocols and technologies have evolved to become today’s Internet. In her talk, she responded to some of the common questions (e.g. Why do we need both Ethernet and IP?) and explored how things might have looked if they were designed today.
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Server-Side Swift Gets Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1 Packages
The Swift team has just released two new server-side packages that aim to provide developers with a faster and safer implementation of X.509 certificates, including their underlying ASN.1 DER encoding/decoding mechanism.
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Open-Source Package ngrok-go Aims to Make it Easier to Embed Ingress into Go Apps
Ngrok-go is an idiomatic Go package that enables Go applications to securely receive network requests through ngrok's ingress-as-a-service platform as if they were listening on a local port.