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Peering: How Local Is Local?

Optimize network performance by ensuring both you and your peers are locally connected. When it comes to Internet Exchanges (IXs), there are two types of peering: local peering and remote peering. And depending on your network setup and goals, the type you use can have a significant impact on your network performance. While remote peering has valuable use cases, we often see customers using it in scenarios where it is actually doing more harm than good to their network performance.

Extend ilert Capabilities with "Make" Integrations

ilert offers over 100 out-of-the-box integrations commonly used in IT operations. From monitoring and observability platforms to ITSM solutions, chat and collaboration apps, fleet management, and IoT tools—these and many others are used daily by engineers worldwide to achieve operational excellence. However, there are also tools outside the developer's usual scope that can prove helpful during incidents.

15 Essential Kali Linux Commands Ethical Hackers Need to Know

As ethical hacking continues to grow in importance, professionals require a reliable operating system to assist them in their tasks. A Debian-based distribution, Kali Linux is the go-to OS for ethical hackers and penetration testers. But why has it become the industry standard? This post will explore what makes Kali Linux essential and dive into the key commands every ethical hacker should know.

Google Cloud Monitoring Guide: Best Practices And Tools To Use

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a great alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. If you use Google Products extensively at work, such as Google Workspace, moving to GCP may be a natural choice. Perhaps you already use GCP with AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider as part of your hybrid cloud strategy. But maybe you struggle to manage GCP costs, monitor security and compliance, and observe performance.

Leveraging AI Features for Enhanced Sales Productivity

In hindsight, the major milestones of social and cultural progress are clear. In recent decades, the popularization of personal computers, the invention of the internet, and the rise and spread of digital social media platforms have clearly stood out. While it wasn't immediately obvious at the time of their emergence just how impactful they would later become, we now recognize their significant role in driving change.

Vehicle Wrap Design Software: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Eye-Catching Wraps

In today's competitive world of advertising, vehicle wraps offer businesses a unique way to stand out. Whether you're looking to promote a brand, express creativity, or create a memorable visual impact, vehicle wraps turn any vehicle into a mobile billboard. Unlike traditional forms of advertising, vehicle wraps are versatile and attention-grabbing, able to convey bold messages to a wide audience. However, creating a flawless and visually appealing wrap requires more than just creativity-it requires the right design tools and a clear understanding of how to use them.

How to Centralize Workforce Management for Multiple Office Support

Managing multiple office locations can be an overwhelming task for any organization, particularly when it comes to ensuring smooth operations, effective communication, and streamlined workflows across teams. Without a centralized system, managing workforce tasks, supporting employee needs, and tracking performance can become a chaotic and inefficient process.

5 Tips on Supporting Faculty in Education With School Administration

Supporting faculty members effectively is one of the most important roles of school administration. Teachers and professors are responsible for shaping the next generation of learners, and to do that well, they need a solid foundation of support from their school’s leadership team.

Supporting Sales with Sales Engineering: 3 Tips for Efficiency and Driving Revenue

Sales engineering has become a critical function in modern businesses, bridging the gap between technical product knowledge and the sales team’s ability to close deals. However, the role of sales engineers (SEs) extends far beyond pre-sales support; they play an essential role in driving revenue growth, supporting the sales process with technical expertise, and ensuring smooth handovers from sales to customer success teams.

Golang Wrapper: Dependency Wrapping, in Go

All but the simplest applications borrow code. You could write everything yourself from just core language features but who has time for that? Instead you take on dependencies, pieces of code written by others that usually give us 80% or more of what we need with 20% of the effort. Sometimes these dependencies are made to interact with a specific technology like a database, or perhaps it’s just a library providing some feature that would be onerous to write yourself.