O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JULY 13, 2021
IPv4 desperately needs to be replaced (and IPv6 has been around since 1995), but IPv6 has been “5 years in the future” for two decades now. Programming is ultimately about gluing things together, whether they’re microservices or programming libraries. Nor does standardization really solve the problem of new services.
Xebia
AUGUST 29, 2023
VPC Lattice offers a new mechanism to connect microservices across AWS accounts and across VPCs in a developer-friendly way. The developers creating the microservices typically don’t like to spend time on network configurations and look for network specialists to set up connectivity. However, it does have consequences.
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Netflix Tech
JUNE 7, 2021
Flow Exporter The Flow Exporter is a sidecar that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time on instances that power the Netflix microservices architecture. Sonar is an IPv6 and IPv4 address identity tracking service. What is BPF? We use Sonar to attribute an IP address to a specific application at a particular time.
Apps Associates
JUNE 22, 2022
Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) – Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on new and existing RDS instances. This provides you with more options in addition to the db.t2.micro
Netflix Tech
APRIL 8, 2025
The eBPF flow logs provide a comprehensive view of service topology and network health across Netflixs extensive microservices fleet, regardless of the programming language, RPC mechanism, or application-layer protocol used by individual workloads. Another challenge was to accommodate Netflixs IPv6 to IPv4 translation mechanism on Titus.
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