Why gigabit fiber in your apartment still comes with a latency penalty if your city lacks an active Internet Exchange Point.
Mapping global Internet infrastructure and routing dominance over time
For the past few years, I’ve been trying to make the physical reality of the Internet visible with my Internet Infrastructure Map. This map shows the network of undersea fiber-optic cables along with peering...
Building the foundation with HTTP/0.9
Welcome to the first installment of our “HTTP from Scratch” blog series! In this series, we’ll embark on a journey through the evolution of the Hypertext...
gRPC isn't perfect but who is?
gRPC, the high-performance RPC framework, has been super successful (if you work for Google) and has drastically changed the way we all deploy APIs (if you...
A collection of projects visualizing and explaining the global routing and physical infrastructure of the Internet: map.kmcd.dev (cables & peering map), livemap.kmcd.dev (real-time routing updates stream), and bgp.kmcd.dev (interactive BGP explainer).
A protoc plugin that generates OpenAPI 3 definitions from Connect and gRPC service definitions, enabling seamless integration with OpenAPI-based tools.
A tool that generates fake gRPC and Connect servers based on your Protobuf definitions. It produces realistic, randomized data that adheres to your service's constraints.
A protobuf-first documentation browser for APIs that deserve better than ugly generated docs.
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