<p style="text-align: justify;">The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable we mostly take it for granted, but behind the scenes it represents one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements. Today’s internet is also dramatically more complex and capable than in its early years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://x.com/_eseidel">Erik Seidel</a> is a Network Engineer at <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/">Cloudflare</a>, where he focuses on automating global network infrastructure. He joins the show to discuss his unique journey into tech, the fundamentals of how the internet works, the Border Gateway Protocol, peering versus transit, Cloudflare’s architecture, networking in China, and much more.</p>
<div><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Gregor-Vand.jpeg"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-15613 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Gregor-Vand.jpeg?resize=218%2C258&#038;ssl=1" alt="" width="218" height="258" /><img class="" alt="" width="" height="" /></a>Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.</span></div>
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