FIELD NOTES

Thinking through
the network.

Short perspectives on routing, infrastructure and running distributed services.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

Traffic steering is a service decision.

A route can be valid while the experience behind it is poor. Start with the service you need to deliver.

DISTRIBUTED INFERENCE

The nearest GPU is one input to a routing decision. Queueing, model readiness and serving behavior also matter.

NETWORK RESILIENCE

A healthy utilization chart describes today. A useful capacity plan also describes what happens when something disappears.