aws 100G networking in AWS, a network performance deep dive Loyal readers of my blog will have noticed a theme, I’m interested in the continued move to virtualized network functions, and the need for faster networking options on cloud Andree Toonk 15 Oct 2020 • 9 min read
networking Building a global anycast service in under a minute This weekend I decided to take another look at Stackpath and their workload edge compute features. This is a relatively new feature, in fact, I wrote about it in Feb Andree Toonk 21 Jun 2020 • 4 min read
networking Building an XDP (eXpress Data Path) based BGP peering router Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increase in projects and initiatives to speed up networking in Linux. Because the Linux kernel is slow when it comes to Andree Toonk 19 Apr 2020 • 9 min read
networking Kernel bypass networking with FD.io and VPP. In this blog, we’ll look at VPP, a fast, flexible, and open-source network forwarding plane. I think you will be blown away by the performance numbers. Andree Toonk 5 Apr 2020 • 6 min read
networking Linux Kernel and Measuring network throughput. can Linux route at line-rate between two network interfaces? That’s the question we will try to answer in the next few minutes. Andree Toonk 29 Mar 2020 • 6 min read
networking Building a high performance - Linux Based Traffic generator with DPDK Often in my, now 20 years, networking career, I had to do some form of network performance testing. Use-cases varied, from troubleshooting a customer problem to testing new network hardware, Andree Toonk 18 Mar 2020 • 10 min read
networking TCP BBR - Exploring TCP congestion control One of the oldest protocols and possibly the most used protocol on the Internet today is TCP. You likely send and receive hundreds of thousands or even over a million Andree Toonk 15 Feb 2020 • 7 min read
networking Building A Smarter AWS Global Accelerator In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how we could build our own global accelerator. I’ve been thinking a lot about Global Accelerator and while it provides a powerful data plane, I think it would benefit from a smarter control plane. Andree Toonk 1 Dec 2019 • 7 min read
networking Building a high available Anycast service using AWS Global Accelerator In my last two blogs, I wrote about building highly available applications using anycast on Packet and Stackpath. Today we’ll look at how to do this on AWS using its recently released service: Global Accelerator. Andree Toonk 2 Sep 2019 • 7 min read
networking Building a high available Anycast application in 5 minutes on Packet As the demand on our applications and infrastructure grow, it becomes more important to be able to quickly deploy your applications and supporting infrastructure in a safe, fast and scalable way. Luckily the tooling and various cloud providers are catching up and making this a lot easier for us. Andree Toonk 24 Feb 2019 • 7 min read
terraform Experimenting with StackPath Edge Computing and Anycast I love tinkering with new tech, and since it was a cold and snowy weekend here in Vancouver, I figured I’d explore Edge Containers from Stackpath. Earlier this week Andree Toonk 11 Feb 2019 • 6 min read
