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Virtual Network Functions in VPC and Integration With Event Notifications in IBM Cloud

DZone

What Are Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)? In IBM Cloud, we have proprietary hardware like the FortiGate firewall that resides inside IBM Cloud data centers today. VNFs are virtualized network services that are packaged as virtual machines (VMs) on commodity hardware.

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Software-Defined Networking in Distributed Systems: Transforming Data Centers and Cloud Computing Environments

DZone

In the changing world of data centers and cloud computing, the desire for efficient, flexible, and scalable networking solutions has resulted in the broad use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Traditional networking models have a tightly integrated control plane and data plane within network devices.

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How AI and observability help to safeguard government networks from new threats

Dynatrace

Today’s applications are cloud-native, microservices-based, and extend across both the cloud and on-premises servers. In complex, distributed cloud-native environments, observability is powerful, as it shows teams exactly when problems occur and how to proactively solve them. There are no more unknown unknowns.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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Reducing Network Latency and Improving Read Performance With CockroachDB and PolyScale.ai

DZone

As of this writing, we support the most popular regions in GCP and AWS; some regions are not exposed in the cloud console but are available via support ticket. PolyScale operates a global network of PoPs (Points of Presence). The network of PoPs spans multiple cloud providers , thereby bridging the gap between cloud providers.

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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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Dynatrace strengthens container security across popular cloud-based registries

Dynatrace

Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines and build processes often expose Kubernetes to attack vectors via internet-sourced container images. Compliance : Adhering to stringent security standards helps meet regulatory and compliance requirements for cloud-native environments.

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