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by imnitishng 1820 days ago
IDK about OP but this is exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have some good books/courses for the same?
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news_hacker 1820 days ago
I was also interested in this, instead of all the TCP/IP resources mentioned here. You may find the Interconnect section of this book helpful: https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/

It covers:

- DNS

- Load Balancing

- Demand Control

- Network Routing

- Discovering Services

- Migratory Virtual IP Addresses

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tootie 1820 days ago
I've never been much for following courses and really the best way to learn is practice. Working with a cloud stack like AWS is a great start. Try to setup a an app server behind a load balancer, CDN (Cloudfront) and DNS (Route53). Read up on VPCs, what a CIDR block denotes. The core functions of these kinds of appliances is actually really simple. Just routing, caching and occasionally transforming requests. The ins and outs of specific products (ie CloudFront vs Cloudflare) is going to most useful and you get that from reading product docs. That and learning to use command-line tools like curl, dig and maybe tracert if you're feeling fancy.
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