infrastructure
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Finals week in an independent school is a strange mixture of exhaustion, ceremony, logistics, and controlled chaos. Between AP exams, commencement events, MacBook collections, foundation repairs at home, and a neighborhood power grid apparently held together with dental floss and a prayer, this week has felt like an extended exercise in keeping systems, and myself,…
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Historically, we have rarely talked about how our servers fetch the content from the Internet. In this blog we’re going to cover this gap. We’ll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of…
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Montgomery has launched free 1-gigabyte Wi-Fi through the central part of downtown, and bigger changes are on the way. Plans include street cameras, a fiber network, 22,000 new LED lights and “smart parking” through an app, all part of a wider effort to create a “Smart City Living Lab” in the heart of the city.The free…