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Navigating Infrastructure Outages: Battle Scars and Lessons Learned

I've worked on numerous outages, each teaching me invaluable lessons. Inspired by Rogers' recent outage report, I wrote down some of my lessons learned.

Andree Toonk

8 Jul 2024 • 8 min read

High-Speed Packet Transmission in Go: From net.Dial to AF_XDP

Pushing limits in Go: from net.Dial to syscalls, AF_PACKET, and lightning-fast AF_XDP. Benchmarking packet sending performance..

Andree Toonk

11 Mar 2024 • 10 min read

AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5 Billion

AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion

Andree Toonk

17 Sep 2023 • 5 min read

Diving into AI: An Exploration of Embeddings and Vector Databases

Join me on my journey into AI and learning about embeddings, vectors and vector databases

Andree Toonk

1 May 2023 • 6 min read

IPv4 for sale - WIDE and APNIC selling 43.0.0.0/8

In this article, we'll look at the recent sale of the IPv4 range 43.0.0.0/8 by The Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust (APIDT). We'll look at who bought what and for how much?

Andree Toonk

13 Oct 2021 • 5 min read

The Risks and Dangers of Amplified Routing Loops.

In this article will take a closer look at network loops and how they can be abused as part of DDoS attacks.

Andree Toonk

13 Apr 2021 • 7 min read

Introducing SSH zero trust, Identity aware TCP sockets

In this article, we’ll look at Mysocket’s zero-trust cloud-delivered, authenticating firewall. Allowing you to replace your trusted IP ranges with trusted identities.Last month we introduced our first

Andree Toonk

16 Feb 2021 • 9 min read

Introducing Identity Aware Sockets: Enabling Zero Trust access for your Private services

In this blog post, we’ll introduce an exciting new feature that, with the help of Mysocket, allows you to deploy your own Beyond Corp setup. What is Zero TrustThe

Andree Toonk

14 Jan 2021 • 5 min read

Global load balancing with Kubernetes and Mysocket.io

If you’re in the world of cloud infrastructure, then you’ve heard of Kubernetes. Some of you are experts already, while some of us are just learning or getting

Andree Toonk

22 Dec 2020 • 5 min read

Easy Multi-region load balancing with Mysocket.io

Last week AWS had a major outage in its US-EAST1 region, lasting for most of the day, just before the big black Friday sales! Incidents like this are a great

Andree Toonk

7 Dec 2020 • 5 min read

Static DNS names for your mysocket.io services (and a new gif service)

In my last blog post, I announced the mysocket.io service and demonstrated how to get started quickly. It’s been great to see people signing up and giving it

Andree Toonk

1 Dec 2020 • 5 min read

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

AWS and their Billions in IPv4 addresses

Andree Toonk

20 Oct 2020 • 4 min read

100G networking in AWS, a network performance deep dive

Andree Toonk

15 Oct 2020 • 9 min read

Building a global anycast service in under a minute

Andree Toonk

21 Jun 2020 • 4 min read

Building an XDP (eXpress Data Path) based BGP peering router

Andree Toonk

19 Apr 2020 • 9 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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