Meetup - Infra[edit | edit source]

2023-10-09m (summary) Meetup/Infra

Introductions[edit | edit source]

[name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]
Doug - getting some infrastructure set up in a data center,
Steven - came expecting other infrastructure, work for Zayo B2B ISP,
Loren - background in software engineering & devops, hosting meetup to have conversations with other peope in
Carl - from Berlin, interested in infra and worked previously at Nextcloud. Hosting a lemmy instance
Alex - landed here two days ago, London. Some touching of servers. Hosting LLMs with friends, and past cryptocurrency projects.
Dave -

Lesson or Demo[edit | edit source]

Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37803466

https://bgp.he.net/AS14593

PeeringDB: "We believe in, and rely on the community to grow and improve the PeeringDB database. The volunteers who run the database are passionate about security, privacy, integrity, and validation of the data in the database. Even though PeeringDB is a freely available and public tool, users strictly adhere to the acceptable use policy, which prevents the database being used for commercial purposes and discourages unsolicited communications. This is largely policed by the community and has been very effective since PeeringDB was launched." Duly noted!

questions about cassandra, bad sharding go-dns resolution - non-determinism.

load balancing meta-stability random, best of 2,

google sre book.

networking cost growth.

youtube, over years https://sumanrs.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/youtube-yearly-costs-for-storagenetworking-estimate/

photonics west - conference yearly. 44 Tb/s = max theoretical limit of fiber

https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation

doug - story about project laying fiber down market street.

network, mesh backbone - failed startup sf. ML to solve routing

https://www.nycmesh.net/

https://github.com/pluspeople/pesaPi - mpesa https://www.benkuhn.net/emco/

https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf