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AWS Summit London & NYC: what engineers want

Across two AWS Summit events in London and New York City, we had the chance to speak with more than 1,000 engineers. They came from startups building their first production stack, and enterprises managing large AWS and multi-cloud deployments. The energy was exactly what you'd expect: major AWS launches, dozens of new service announcements, wall-to-wall cloud conversations. And HAProxy right in the middle of it.

KWhy? MSP Webinar

Most MSPs are sitting on a goldmine of data across their tools. The problem isn’t access, it’s knowing what *actually* matters… and how to use it to drive better outcomes. Join Amanda Doucette-Lachapelle and Kyle Christensen (Empath) as they walk through how to use KPIs to make smarter, more confident decisions, with real examples you can apply right away.

Tapirs, Trainings, and Team Dinners: My First Kentik Meetup

Gavin joined Kentik’s People Ops team less than a year ago, so when April brought his first team offsite and his first HR conference in San Diego, it was a lot of firsts at once. He writes about meeting his colleagues face to face for the first time, what he took away from HRA 26, and his new appreciation for tapirs.

What Is Coherent Routing?

Coherent routing, Routed Optical Networking, Converged Optical Routing Architecture (CORA), are all names for the same concept: an advanced network architecture which integrates coherent optical transceivers directly into IP routers. This convergence of layers creates a simplified and highly efficient IP-over-DWDM (IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) network.

Why Does Network Topology Decide How Fast Your Network Recovers?

In this video, learn why network topology plays a critical role in network resilience, troubleshooting, and recovery. Discover how understanding network dependencies, eliminating single points of failure, and maintaining clear visibility can help IT teams reduce downtime and accelerate incident response. In this video, you'll learn.

When Local Blocks Go Global: The India-Telegram BGP Incident

Yesterday’s leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental — a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom’s infamous hijack of YouTube in 2008, in which a domestic block escaped containment and disrupted the service worldwide.

AI is only one of four things driving the data center boom

Tony Rossabi, aka the Godfather, has spent 30 years in this industry. Car washes to Telx to building data centers. He sat down with our CEO Michael Reid to break down what’s actually happening underneath the AI headlines, from where the real demand is coming from, to why a single megawatt of power is so hard to find, and how a team of eight is building 19 ten-megawatt facilities across two continents in 24 months.