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Explaining the Internet: its technology, its architecture, and its evolution
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This week we’ve posted a reasonably complete draft of our congestion control book, which has reminded us once again what a long and rich history the fi…
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This week we’ve been working on our Congestion Control book, which has required me to read lots of papers and RFCs to get my head around all the differ…
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Another Study in the Importance of Defining Interfaces
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Network verification is starting to have its moment, so I find myself looking back at how important formal models, languages, and verification were in …
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Calls to decentralize the Internet have a compelling ring to them. As we noted previously, there are failure risks in having so much dependency on any …
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The idea that the data plane and control plane are separable is almost as old as networking. In the Internet, the data plane was defined as part of the…
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The idea of decentralization is baked quite firmly into the Internet’s architecture. The definitive paper on the Internet’s original design is David Cl…
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We're currently working on an update to our SDN book that expands the coverage of Network Virtualization to a full chapter. That led to some spirited d…
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Last month, Larry pointed out that service mesh can be thought of as “SDN for Layer 7”, which got me thinking about how service mesh relates to the tra…
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This week we are wading into the discussion around GitOps. One of the topics we have on our queue of potential books to write is cloud operations, and …
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We are keen students of history at Systems Approach, LLC, and this week we look back on some of the biggest transformations in networking, and how thos…
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