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

DZone

What Are Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)? Previously, proprietary hardware performed functions like routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc. In IBM Cloud, we have proprietary hardware like the FortiGate firewall that resides inside IBM Cloud data centers today.

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Network performance monitoring top of mind for CloudOps teams

Dynatrace

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. If the network is sluggish, an application may also be slow, frustrating users. Worse, a malicious attacker may gain access to the network, compromising sensitive application data.

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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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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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Distributed Cloud Architecture for Resilient Systems

DZone

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly.

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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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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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