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BGP for builders: a practical primer

BGP is not just for ISPs. Every infrastructure engineer should understand how routes propagate and how prefix hijacks happen.

Marcus Lee · 1 min read
BGP for builders: a practical primer

BGP is not just for ISPs. Every infrastructure engineer should understand how routes propagate and how prefix hijacks happen.

Marcus Lee
WRITTEN BY Marcus Lee Co-founder & CEO · Platform

Marcus co-founded Stratum to make planet-scale infrastructure feel like a single machine. He writes about developer tooling, product strategy and the long road from prototype to platform.

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