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BGP Knowledge for Indie Hackers: Is It Really Necessary?
I examine how important BGP truly is for indie hackers, when it's an unnecessary detail, and what you should focus on instead.
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BGP Route Flap Management: Effective Prevention in 3 Steps
A practical guide to understanding, diagnosing, and effectively managing BGP route flap issues in 3 steps.
Technology
Edge Service Design with BGP Anycast: DNS and DDoS Resilience
A practical edge design guide that addresses routing, health signals, capacity, and attack scenarios together to see Anycast's real benefits.
Technology
Preventing Edge Outages with BGP Max-Prefix Limits
Designing, monitoring, and writing an incident runbook for the max-prefix guardrail that protects edge routers during route leaks and bad-prefix waves.
Technology
DDoS Scrubbing Center Design: GRE, BGP, and Failover
GRE tunnels, BGP signaling, capacity, and an operational runbook to keep the service up by diverting traffic to scrubbing during an attack.
Technology
BGP Traffic Engineering Runbook for the Enterprise Edge
A practical runbook for steering traffic with localpref, community, prepend, and MED in multi-ISP and multi-POP environments — measurable and reversible.
Technology
Route Analytics with BGP BMP: Visibility and Incident Triage
Bring route leak, flap, and blackhole events down to minutes by combining BMP telemetry, route analytics, and an alarm model in a practical approach.
Technology
Enterprise Edge Resolver Architecture with Anycast DNS
An approach for placing the in-house DNS resolver tier near the POP/branch using Anycast — cutting latency while improving operability.
Technology
Reducing Outage Impact in Planned Maintenance with BGP Graceful…
Graceful restart logic, risks, verification steps, and a rollback standard for doing BGP maintenance without 'dropping routes'.
Technology
DDoS Response Runbook with BGP RTBH and FlowSpec
A controlled approach to reducing DDoS impact during operations using an RTBH/FlowSpec decision tree, verification steps, and a rollback plan.
Tutorials
Fast Failover with BFD on FRR: A Practical Guide
An approach to enabling BFD with FRR (BGP/OSPF) to generate fast signals when the link looks up but traffic isn't flowing (blackhole).
Technology
RPKI-Based BGP Trust Chain in Enterprise Networks
An architectural approach to building an RPKI-based trust chain in enterprise networks to reduce BGP route leak and forged origin risks.
Tutorials
Designing a Route Reflector Lab with Bird 2
Building a Bird 2-based route reflector laboratory to safely experiment with internal BGP topologies.
Technology
BGP EVPN Segmentation Strategy in Enterprise Networks
An architectural framework for the BGP EVPN approach that makes segmentation more scalable in data center and campus networks.
Technology
Migration Strategy to an L3 Clos Fabric in Enterprise Networks
An architectural roadmap for moving from layered bottleneck designs to an L3 Clos fabric in growing data center networks.
Tutorials
BGP Failover Lab Guide with FRRouting
Steps for validating BGP failover behavior in a lab for servers or edge environments using dual uplinks.