I left my job in September and I am about to start a new one in January. The last few months I’ve spent most of my time wrangling a toddler, riding bicycles and taking care of household chores and projects. Important work but not geared towards thinking about how a packet gets from place to place in a correct, fault-tolerant and performant way. With a few weeks to go I have given myself an assignment of doing some reading to hopefully learn something new, learn more about the tech my soon-to-be employer has built and generally get the juices flowing. A self-directed “warm up” before the “race” if you will. What follows is that list; some of this is a refresher course and some is purely curiosity. Other parts are to learn something about a self-preceived weak spot in my knowledge (ahem … notice all those MPLS links at the bottom). Wish me luck! We’ll see how far I get during nap time and between diapers.
Fastly
- Turning a Fast Network into a Smart Network with Autopilot
- How Fastly Protects its customers from Massive DDoS threats including the novel Rapid Reset attack
- Fastly’s Fast Path Failover Technology Improves Deliverability
- Staying Alive: Connection Path Reselection at the Edge
- Building and Scaling the Fastly Network, Part 1: Fighting the FIB
- Building and Scaling the Fastly Network, Part 2: Balancing Requests
IPv6
- DHCPv6 Relay
- Why is a /48 the recommended minimum prefix size for routing?
- IPv6 extension headers revisited
- Behavioural differences of IPv6 subnet-router anycast address implementations
- IPv6, the DNS and Happy Eyeballs
DNS
- DNS at IETF 118
- Use of HTTPS Resource Records
- Service Binding and Parameter Specification via the DNS (SVCB and HTTPS Resource Records) RFC 9460
- A First Look at SVCB and HTTPS DNS Resource Records in the Wild
- How Ready Is DNS for an IPv6-Only World?
BGP, routing, anycast
- Improving the Agility of BGP Routing
- SCION - A Novel Internet Architecture
- Understanding BGP Labeled Unicast
- Three Dimensions of BGP Address Family Nerd Knobs
- Anycast In context: a tale of two systems
Security
- Security Control Changes Due to TLS Encrypted ClientHello
- Peering into the Darkness: The Use of UTRS in Combating DDoS Attacks
- A path forward: Improving Internet routing security by enabling zones of trust
- Introducing Packet-Level Analysis in Programmable Data Planes to Advance Network Intrusion Detection
- Measuring CDNs susceptible to Domain Fronting
Performance, congestion, etc
- The quiet plan to make the internet feel faster
- Achieving High Utilization with Software-Driven WAN
- Examination of WAN traffic characteristics in a large-scale data center network
- AuTO: scaling deep reinforcement learning for datacenter-scale automatic traffic optimization
- ECN or Delay: Lessons Learnt from Analysis of DCQCN and TIMELY
- Starvation in end-to-end congestion control
- AnyOpt: predicting and optimizing IP Anycast performance
Automation, configuration, verification and correctness
- Towards Equitable Peering: A Proposal for a Fair Peering Fee Between ISPs and Content Providers
- Zero-Touch Networks: Towards Next-Generation Network Automation
- LIGHTYEAR: Using Modularity to Scale BGP Control Plane Verification
- BGP Typo: A Longitudinal Study and Remedies
- CDN Slicing over a Multi-Domain Edge Cloud
Monitoring and measurement
- Packed to the Brim: Investigating the Impact of Highly Responsive Prefixes on Internet-wide Measurement Campaigns
- Old but Gold: Prospecting TCP to Engineer and Live Monitor DNS Anycast
Load balacing
- Unimog - Cloudflare’s edge load balancer
- Open-sourcing Katran, a scalable network load balancer
- Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer
- Sailfish: accelerating cloud-scale multi-tenant multi-service gateways with programmable switches
- Hashing Design in Modern Networks: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques
MPLS
Joe Williams
williams.joe@gmail.com
