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How do you decide which parts of a system to test with chaos engineering? How do you measure success when straining a system? I'm interested to hear your thoughts!

We're always looking for ways to improve the value our products provide and the user experience.  What is your #1 challenge when using Equinix Fabric?

Helo,We are trying to automate creating work visit requests in Equinox portal using rest API's.Following the documentation , i was able to generate client creds etc and use to generate bearer token.when i used the same to submit a work visit request, i get invalid token used error.Anyone faced this ??? Any recommendations ??Thanks in Advance

Connect Using Service Token - Equinix APIs use OAuth 2.0 protocol to authenticate the requests you make to API endpoints. In order to interact with Equinix APIs, you need a bearer acess token. Bearer determines the type of authentication scheme and is a part of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. https://developer.equinix.com/docs

Equinix Fabric now supports 20 & 50 Gbps virtual connections to Google Cloud. What kinds of applications or technologies do you believe will benefit with access to these larger capacity connections?

How can we get the correct Final A-Side System Name using the API as displayed in the Install Base Download for Metro-connects or inter-IBX cross-connects? This is what we see when getting the asset details with the API https://api.equinix.com/v1/assets/ { "key": "SYSTEM_NAME", "value": "CH2:02155:EQUINIX", "tag": "A_SIDE_INFORMATION" } But when we download the Install Base we see that information displayed as the Legacy System Name in the Cross-connect Z-side report.Final A-side System Name: CH1:05:XXXXXX:Some Other Broadband Legacy System Name: CH2:02155:EQUINIX

You might be deploying on Network Edge today to run through @Charles_Randall's tutorial. While reading up on Network Edge at Developer Platform, then perhaps you're thinking "what's the difference between Playground, Sandbox, and Production?". In short: Playground is a test environment to test Equinix APIs, using static data without integrating within the actual API. Sandbox is a mock test environment to test Equinix APIs, using synthetic data (not production data) to integrate with Equinix APIs before moving to Production. Production is the live environment.

Studies show that technology is progressing at such a rapid pace that up to 85% of the jobs that will be available in 2040 have not been created yet. Will AI, ML, and hardware advancements create a society where careers we take for granted today won’t exist in the future? In the Traceroute Podcast episode 9 “The Kids are Alright”, join me, Grace Ewura-Esi and Amy Tobey as Producer John Taylor puts a personal face on this idea through his 13-year-old daughter, Ella, who wants to be a chef when she grows up. Together, they explore this issue with Executive Chef-turned-Dell Computer Advocate Tim Banks, as well as employment attorney Michael Lotito, whose Emma Coalition seeks solutions to TIDE, the technologically induced displacement of Employment. Between trips to fully-automated restaurants and the latest advancements in 3D food replication, we discover that Gen Z’s humanity may be their biggest asset in tomorrow’s job market.

Using the GET /fabric/v4/connections/{uuid}/stats API call, i now get a 500 internal server error with the following message: [ { "errorCode": "EQ-3033010", "errorMessage": "Internal server error.", "details": "Please check the request payload and submit the request again.", "correlationId": "1028656-0000-105679634794-api", "additionalInfo": [ { "reason": "Internal server error." } ] } ] Nothing has changes in my code that utilizes this endpoint and i get the same issues with Postman.Are there issues or has anything changed with this API endpoint?

I'd be interested to hear if anyone is using the cross connect API and what you experience has been.

What is Geo-Redundancy and what are the benefits associated with this solution?

No matter the layers in your stack there’s one inevitability about all of our systems: errors. Misunderstandings, miscalculations, and mishaps are so much a part of the human experience, they can’t help but get baked into the increasingly complex socio-technical systems that we create. Historically we’ve always aimed to reduce our bug counts or have fewer incidents, but what if we instead, thought of these errors as opportunities to better refine our understandings of how our systems interact with the world around them? Maybe, in fact, our mistakes are at least as important to technological development as our innovative ideas? In this fascinating episode of Traceroute, we start back in 1968, when “The Mother of All Demos” was supposed to change the face of personal computing…before the errors started. We’re then joined by Andrew Clay Shafer, a DevOps pioneer who has seen the evolution of “errors” to “incidents” through practices like Scrum, Agile, and Chaos Engineering. We also speak w

Hello, I have been attempting to mess with the sandbox and create.The two things I have done (using Postman) are get a token and create a user. I have been putting the Bearer Token in Auth and receive this, with a 500 error: [ { "errorCode": "EQ-2021101", "errorMessage": "The server has encountered an unexpected error. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.", "correlationId": "230718201317567" } ] Let me know if you need more information, as I am lost on where to go next.

Have you used Solution Builder to create a design that is so spectacular, you can't wait to share it with your colleagues? Check out the Sharing Your Solution section on the Solution Builder page in our documentation to learn how to share your designs.

A recent deployment by one of our partners, Travelping, demonstrates an interesting use case for solving a cellular carrier issue using edge infrastructure capabilities from Equinix. The Problem? The carrier’s network, while global, was not set up to remove some of the multi-access complexity which then impacted latency, or meet all the data localization requirements for connected vehicle regulations. The Solution? Travelping’s solution was to deploy the PDN Gateway functionality virtually in an Equinix data center in Korea using Equinix Metal, the bare metal cloud service that provides automated dedicated compute infrastructure on demand globally. Check out the full story on our blog 

How does Network Edge virtual networking work together with physical devices and other digital services at Equinix?

Great news for Fabric users: You can now add Physical Ports to Virtual Ports using a new API.  Add Physical Ports to Virtual Port  

With AI being so topical these days I recently started to played around with stable diffusion, via the InvokeAI project (https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/) - I'm hoping to write up a blog my experiences but the TL;DR is that InvokeAI is a pretty slick project. I was also playing around with GitHub Action self-hosted runners (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/adding-self-hosted-runners) and was pretty impressed by how easy it was to install and use. Anyone else tinkering around with something? I've been meaning to further look into Rust and WebAssembly but haven't found the time to get back into it.

Did you know that Equinix has a dashboard that discloses how we ensure security and compliance? How do we assess threats and minimize exposure to cybersecurity risks? You can stay updated on security incidents and access our reports and certifications. This allows you to verify that Equinix services align with your organization's compliance needs and set your mind at peace. You can access the Trust and Transparency Dashboard here. Note that you need to log in to the Equinix Customer Portal.

Hi Community! I’m Sariga, part of the Global Customer Care and Experience (GCCX) team.I lead our new Equinix Customer Insights Panel and would love for you to join! It’s the quickest way for you to shape our solutions and voice what matters most to you and your organization. It’s simple, you’ll be the first to be invited to polls, surveys, interviews, focus groups and design sessions. You control how much time you can give us for feedback on new ideas, processes, product releases, possible features and more.Sign up today for the Customer Insights Panel. Once you’ve activated your account you can explore and participate in the research activities.Respond below if you are part of the Insights Panel ⬇️ 

Just announced: If you have a Fabric login and billing account, you can order Equinix Precision Time through the Fabric Portal. Just follow the Quick Connect prompts, and with a few clicks, your new time service is provisioned and ready to go. Both PTP and NTP protocols are supported, for both Standard and Enterprise tiers. Want more information? See the steps in Order Precision Time with Quick Connect.

I returned from a trip to Ghana, West Africa, with a new perspective on how technology helps us not only make new discoveries but gives old discoveries a new perspective. In this special episode featuring all three co-hosts in a fascinating discussion, you'll hear about examples like Adinkra, the symbol-based language of the Ashanti Empire. A form of communication based on various observations of and associations between humans and the objects they use, the associative nature of the language is one of the bases for block code that software engineers use today. 

Today, I want to dive into the exciting world of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and explore why it's gaining popularity among businesses of all sizes. Additionally, I'm curious to know if any of our esteemed community members have hands-on experience or have deployed a VDI solution using Equinix products and services. Let's collaborate and share our insights! 🖥️ What is VDI and why is it trending? 🚀 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a technology that enables businesses to host and manage virtual desktops on a centralized server or cloud infrastructure, delivering them to end-users over the network. This approach offers numerous benefits, including: 1️⃣ Enhanced Security: With VDI, sensitive data is stored in a centralized and secure location, reducing the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access. 2️⃣ Scalability and Flexibility: VDI allows for easy scalability, empowering businesses to add or remove virtual desktops based on their evolving needs. It also facilitates

We’re building a new tool - an online tracker to visually show the progression of your cage/cabinet deployment, and we need your feedback to understand what information would make tracking your deployment easier. Interested in taking part in this 30 second research? Sign up today for the Equinix Customer Insights Panel.  Once your account is activated, you can explore and participate in research activities including the new online cage/cabinet tracker tool. 

Hello everyone! At Equinix, we are proud to offer a wide range of products and services to help our customers achieve their business goals. From data centers to network solutions, cloud exchange to security services, we have a variety of offerings that can meet your needs. That's why we would love to hear from you! We would like to get an understanding of which of our products you're using and how they're helping you achieve your goals. Whether it's our: Data centers: providing secure and reliable colocation solutions Network solutions: connecting you to a global network of partners and customers Cloud exchange: giving you the ability to easily and securely connect to multiple clouds Security services: protecting your critical business assets and data Interconnection solutions: allowing you to directly connect to the people, places, and things that matter most to your business Equinix Metal: providing on-demand and scalable bare metal infrastructure solutions Network Edge: delivering