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If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I love tinkering with packets and making them go fast in software. Today I'm releasing a new tool called wireblast , a blazingly fast network packet generator. A few weeks ago, I wrote about go-afxdp , a small Go library I've
If you've been following my blog for a while, you know I have a soft spot for making packets go fast in software. I'm a network guy at heart, raised on routing and switching, but these days most of that love is written in Go. Every few years I circle
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.
Pushing limits in Go: from net.Dial to syscalls, AF_PACKET, and lightning-fast AF_XDP. Benchmarking packet sending performance..
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
Join me on my journey into AI and learning about embeddings, vectors and vector databases
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?
In this article will take a closer look at network loops and how they can be abused as part of DDoS attacks.
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 zero trust features by introducing the concept of Identity Aware Sockets . It’s been great to see folks giving this
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 Trust The main concept behind Zero Trust is that users shouldn’t just be trusted because they are on your network.
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 started. In this blog, we’ll introduce a mysocket controller for Kubernetes and demonstrate how easy it is to use
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 reminder of the importance of multi-region or even multi-cloud deployments for your services. Depending on your “cloud maturity” and your
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 a spin! Your feedback has been great, motivating, and has helped make the service better already. Most users that gave
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.
Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json . When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset