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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 100 posts.

2016
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How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN

This post is the first in a series detailing the evolution of network software at Fastly. We’re unique amongst our peers in that from inception, we’ve always viewed networking as an integral part of our product rather than a cost center. We rarely share what we do with the wider networking community however, in part…

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IAB Statement on IPv6

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), following discussions in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), advises its partner Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and organizations that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses has been exhausted, and as a result we are seeing an increase in both dual-stack (that…

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HTTPS Adoption doubled this year

Despite having been around for over 20 years, HTTPS always remained very lightly adopted – until 2016. Data from two independent sources shows that HTTPS adoption more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. Snyk CEO Guy Podjarny digs into this data.

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Social media shutdown in Turkey

The TurkeyBlocks monitoring network has detected restrictions on access to multiple social media services Facebook, Twitter and YouTube throughout Turkey beginning Friday Nov 04 2016 1:20AM local time, ongoing through into Friday ...