BGP for People Who Build Apps

Most application engineers I work with treat the network as a black box that either delivers their packets or does not. That works until the day it doesn't — a regional outage, a noisy neighbor, a route leak — and suddenly the entire team is reading postmortems about BGP for the first time.

The primer I wish I had

Enough BGP to read a status page, ask sharper questions, and choose better CDNs.