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On October 20 and again on November 18, the internet blinked. A lot of companies found out the hard way that their revenue was riding on a single region and a single vendor on its worst day. In my new Forbes article, I break down 5 practical ways to design for resilience: from keeping your "front door" neutral with anycast to standardizing telemetry and making your cloud integrations reusable. If your business would feel an 8 to 12 hour outage in the quarterly numbers, this is for you. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gg3zk7Nm

Our Director of Interconnection, Katherine G., made a last minute decision to attend Autocon in Austin, TX and was NOT disappointed! Get the event recap with thoughts on the hallway track and sessions attended. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ecqtxHQq Dinesh Dutt, Cat Gurinsky, Srividya Iyer #AutoCon4 #Automation #NetworkAutomation #NetActuate

On Nov 18, Cloudflare experienced its largest outage since 2019—impacting global apps like ChatGPT, Uber, Spotify, and more. While not caused by a cyberattack, the incident was a reminder that even small internal changes can ripple across massive, distributed networks. Cloudflare demonstrated transparency and accountability in their detailed postmortem. It’s a teachable moment for all of us building and operating global infrastructure. At NetActuate, we’ve spent decades engineering for resilience—leveraging Anycast, automated failover, and smart routing across 45+ locations worldwide. If your app was affected or you're rethinking your architecture, check out our latest blog post from Mark Mahle on what the outage taught us—and how we help teams architect for resilience and performance: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eveDqyCx We’re hosting a webinar on Dec 9 “Apply Anycast Best Practices for Resilient & Performant Global Applications” Join us: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eCpU8ruF #Cloudflare #Outage #Resiliency #Infrastructure #Anycast #NetActuate #APITesting #SoftwareEngineering

Global applications depend on network-layer resilience and performance — as the recent spate of DNS-related cloud outages place in sharp relief. Anycast remains one of the most powerful methods to achieve both. But deploying Anycast correctly takes more than announcing prefixes from multiple POPs. BGP is based upon policies—not physical locations—and regional politics, upstream carrier outages, and network congestion can impact performance. What’s more, monitoring Anycast traffic outside your network is difficult. Join our Webinar “Apply Anycast Best Practices for Resilient & Performant Global Applications” on December 9th, 2:00 PM EST, where Mark Mahle, CEO and Chief Plumber at NetActuate, will break down the operational patterns, community controls, and design frameworks that make Anycast-based services both performant and fault-tolerant at scale. From global DNS and CDN deployment to DDoS mitigation, BYOIP strategies, and BGP community engineering, this session explores the real-world lessons learned from managing a global Anycast network with 45+ PoPs that handles more than 25 billion transactions per day. You’ll learn how to: * Design an address/ASN strategy that supports tiered services, regional controls, and IPv6 parity * Architect applications to be Anycast-ready—including health signaling, session behavior, and graceful maintenance * Use BGP communities to perform precise traffic engineering, blackholing, and route dampening across hybrid and multi-cloud networks * Implement observability, route hygiene, and GitOps-driven automation for continuous verification and change safety. * Combine cloud edges (AWS, Google, Cloudflare) with your own Anycast footprint for visibility, control, and compliance. Whether you’re running a DNS platform, web application firewall, or secure access VPN, you’ll leave with actionable insights and a practitioner’s checklist for building and operating resilient global networks. REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/eCpU8ruF #NetActuate #BGP #Anycast #DNS #Networking #Resiliency #Performance #CDN #DDOS #BYOIP #ASN #IPv6 #AWS #Google #Cloudflare #Compliance #CloudComputing #MultiCloud #HybridCloud

Recent cloud and network outages have spurred enterprises to better understand network resiliency and what they can do to mitigate their exposure. In this third installment of Networking at the Global Edge, NetActuate Director of Interconnection, Katherine G., answers common questions about network outages, redundancy, and resiliency.  * What are some of the primary causes of network disruptions today? * What's an example of a recent major network disruption you worked on? * What insights did your disruption analysis reveal?  * What are some ways to build redundancy and resiliency into networks? Video: https://lnkd.in/eXWs-_eN Learn more about networking with BGP Anycast here: https://anycast.com/ #Networking #Outages #Redundancy #Resiliency #FiberCuts #DDOS #IberianOutage #DNS #Anycast #NetActuate

NetActuate is thrilled to announce new POPs in Bogotá and Barranquilla, Colombia! 🇨🇴 🚀 Colombia’s technology sector has become one of the region’s fastest-growing markets and the country boasts the highest number of subsea cable landings in Latin America. “We’re thrilled to strengthen our presence in South America with new deployments in Colombia,” said Mark Mahle, CEO of NetActuate. “Together with our sites in Santiago and São Paulo, these POPs extend our reach across key Latin American markets. Most importantly, they help our customers deliver faster, more reliable digital experiences with direct access to our global edge network.” 🔗 Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/ekDWRkcE #NetActuate #Colombia #Bogota #Barranquilla #SouthAmerica #Infrastructure #CloudComputing #EdgeComputing #Anycast #BGPAnycast #DataCenter #AIInfrastructure #Equinx #Vtal #ZonaFranca #TAM1 #Telxius #SubseaCable 

Q: How can DevOps tooling help with Anycast deployments? A: Playbooks leveraging NetBox configure Anycast services change routes automatically as it deploys to new regions. For instance, when a node in Raleigh, NC is shut down, Anycast routes the service automatically to the next closest node in Ashburn, VA. In this short video from All Things Open 2025, Craig Jackson, DevOps Engineer at NetActuate, gives an overview, covering: Data Centers and Infrastructure, Automated Scripts and Playbooks, NetActuate’s Customer Portal, NetBox Single Source of Truth Orchestration, and the Power of Anycast. https://lnkd.in/ew8ZctPG #NetActuate #Anycast #BGP #DevOps #NetBox #SST #Orchestration #EdgeComputing #AllThingsOpen 

Was that a dial-up modem I just heard? Yes! In case you missed the NetActuate booth “From Dial-up to DevOps” at All Things Open, here’s the hands on dial-up demo on vintage hardware from The Serial Port that had the show buzzing. Learning where tech has evolved from offers a deeper understanding of the fundamentals driving technology forward today. Check out the demo and let us know what kinds of vintage tech you’d like to see the Serial Port to cover next. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eN57B4DS #TheSerialPort #NetActuate #VintageTech #DialupToDevOps #AllThingsOpen

🗞️ Exciting News! We've now revamped, rebranded, and relaunched our industry resource hub for all things Anycast! Learn how BGP Anycast can improve your infrastructure's performance, resiliency, and security at the network level with resources, FAQs, tooling, and a closer look at several top Anycast use cases. Check out the new site and stay tuned for more Anycast resources and use cases: 🔗 https://www.anycast.com/ #Anycast #BGPAnycast #DisasterRecovery #Security #IPv6 #DNS #RecursiveDNS #AuthoritativeDNS #HybridCloud #MultiCloud #Overlays #CDN #Perfomance #HA #AnycastasaService #NetActuate

NetActuate’s Director of Interconnection, Katherine G. is back from Texas 🤠 with a recap of last week’s NANOG 95 and ARIN 56 events. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eWFXgxEz Congratulations to the organizers on another successful event and we’ll see you in San Francisco for NANOG 96! #NANOG95 #NANOG #NetworkingCommunity #TechEvents  #EdgeConnectivity #ARIN #ARIN56 #DNS #loveDNS #ItsAlwaysDNS #BGP #SASE #NetworkAutomation #QUIC #ISP #LIR #Arlington #Texas