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Antoine Fressancourt

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Kumori: an overlay to reinforce inter-datacenter connections resiliency

Networking: an essential aspect of cloud computing infrastructures

If you landed on this technical blog, it shouldn’t be a surprise to you if I tell you that cloud computing is the major trend that has shaped the IT world since its appearance in the form of Amazon’s “pay as you go” computing platform offerings. From then on, Cloud computing delivers its users and customers flexibility and adaptability to demand. Cloud services providers also promise a better resilience in the event of a failure, arguing that as their platform exists in datacenters distributed all around the world, their infrastructure can cope with large failures in a better way than a standalone computing rack that companies’ IT departments might run on their premises.

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On the (in)security of Internet routing

How is routing done in the Internet today?

Today, we live a connected life, and we often take the Internet for granted. But if you think twice about it, Internet is a kind of little miracle. Indeed, for the Internet to work properly, thousands of networks need to cooperate. Those networks are built and administrated by different companies, universities or individuals. Yet, their loose cooperation is needed in order for you to be able to see the cat GIF image that someone else has posted on a website.

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