blamethenetwork

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   by blamethenetwork 2y ago

   Even more detail: YouTube continued building their own POPs AND network for ~18 months AFTER the google acquisition. Google did not have the network capacity to carry it. (Fun fact: YT had 25 datacenter contracts, and opened them at the
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   by blamethenetwork 5y ago

   I was there and saw some of this during my time at Netflix. I've also been in the industry long enough to get my own sense of what is / what is not reasonable. The first thing, Netflix wise, is to understand their culture deck at
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   by blamethenetwork 5y ago

   At a routing and peering level. Once you have an announcement for your netblock out there, traffic will start to head towards it. A lot of this is due to the BGP Path Selection Algorithm. You can try and influence how traffic arrives, by