mysocket Introducing Mysocket.io Mysocket is a service that provides users with fast and secure TCP sockets for services that aren’t normally directly reachable from the Internet. Using a simple client, we connect your local services to the Internet. Andree Toonk 23 Nov 2020 • 4 min read
terraform 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
aws 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
terraform 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
anycast 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
