As applications have increased in complexity, so have the queries needed to understand the state and performance of those systems, leading to an explosion in the volume and dimensionality of metrics. Joel Barciauskas outlines how Datadog architected its pipelines, data structures, and storage engines to answer these complex questions, all while scaling to ingest trillions of points per day.

Route servers are a convenience service that exists to lower the barrier to participate at an IXP. In the past, these route servers also distributed leaked routes …

Since the mid-1980s, relational databases have been standard for most applications to store and query structured data. As architectures became more complex, databases generalized to fit a variety of use cases. Simplicity was key: storage, indexing, caching, querying, and transaction management, all under a unified SQL. Alex Silva examines how relational databases overcome these challenges.

At Deutsche Telekom we recently created RQspec as tooling for making full combined use of old style IRR/RPSL and new RPKI/ROA information to evaluate routing polic …