In the early days of data processing, batch-oriented data infrastructure worked as a great way to process and output data, but now as networks move to mobile, where real-time analytics are required to keep up with network demands and functionality,
Having the right monitoring tools is key to assisting your network performance. Monitoring tools will help with a variety of issues, most importantly to resolve network problems that might impede daily operations. Currently, there are several open source monitoring tools available on the
The Onion Network, otherwise known as Tor, is a free, open network browser that specializes in letting you surf the Internet without any form of network surveillance. It gets its name because of the way it routes traffic is like
Backbone.js vs. Angular.js Both Backbone.js and Angular.js are similar frameworks that address the same problem–how to simplify the creation of a single page web application. They both have a lot in common, built with open sourced software released under the
The ELK Stack is a new system that offers a way to take data from any source on your network, analyze it and visualize it for your convenience, all in realtime. Recently, it’s been gaining traction as a new leader
When most people hear the term “networking,” they think of cables, routers and switches. Every CDN out there does networking, building out their infrastructure to build out their network. But with Fastly, they do a different kind of networking, and
The Mantis shrimp is an oxymoron in its own right. It’s a small, yet immensely strong and powerful shrimp, able to support weight far greater than their body size might make you think, but above all else it has incredible
There’s no doubt that Netflix is at the top of their game, serving over 75 million global members. But the remarkable thing for the streaming industry is that they built the foundation of their site using open source code. This
On February 25, Fastly shared the first part of their speaker series on security with Alex Pinto, Chief Data Scientist of Niddel and leader of the MLSec Project. The topic of his presentation was data science machine learning and security.
Previously, we talked with founder of Varnish, Per Buer about the advancements Varnish has made over the past couple years and how they continue to grow in the market of open source caching. But one topic that came up was
Over the past couple years, video streaming, gaming, photo sharing and other forms of high-data usage media consumption have exploded across network platforms. More and more people are online, requesting more and more content, and at the crux of this
Akamai, the CDN industry juggernaut, has been the dominant CDN for years now, with almost two decades of experience under their belt. And in that time they developed a markup language Edge Side Includes (ESI) to help with the issue
Integral to optimizing your network performance is having the right monitoring tools, which will help you to resolve internal network problems that may occur during day-to-day operations. Currently, there are several open source monitoring tools available to install on your
Skyhigh Networks Partners with Zscaler The cloud access security broker, Skyhigh networks, announced that they have begun a partnership with Zscaler, a cloud security company, which will focus on securing cloud services. The two companies have stated they will be
When it comes to Internet protocols, TCP has been the dominant protocol used across the web to form connections. TCP helps computers communicate by breaking large data sets into individual packets, transmitting them, and then reforming the packet in the
