Adam Blackington's Blog

ByAdam Blackington

January 14, 2025

Ashburn Data Center Colocation at NTT VA1

My Setup at NTT VA1 My current deployment at NTT VA1 (with the expert support of IPv4 Guru…

ByAdam Blackington

January 3, 2025

The Death of Net Neutrality: Why the Sixth Circuit’s Decision Matters to You

Imagine an internet where your favorite streaming service is suddenly slower than its competitors, where accessing certain websites…

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BySarah Goldburger

July 24, 2024

An In-Depth Analysis of CrowdStrike’s Post-Incident Report

The recent global outage, estimated to cost Fortune 500 companies more than $5 Billion Dollars,1 caused by CrowdStrike’s…

ByJason Maschimosvich

July 18, 2024

Diving into KumoMTA: The Open Source MTA written in Rust

I’ve been toying around with the idea of running an MTA now for awhile. I took a look…

ByBen Perel

July 5, 2024

Netbox: A Single Source of Truth for your Datacenter and Cloud Environments

You’re in the data-center. You need to find that server that someone put in three years ago. But…

ByAdam Blackington

February 9, 2024

Demystifying Vertex AI for Retail: A Cloud Engineer’s Perspective

As a cloud engineer at Google, I’ve had the privilege of working with a wide range of innovative…

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ByAdam Blackington

February 7, 2024

Gemini Takes Flight: A Cloud Customer Engineer’s Perspective

This blog is narrated by murf.ai. As a Google cloud certified professional architect, I live and breathe the…

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ByAdam Blackington

January 29, 2024

Navigating Uncharted Waters: The Implications of The New York Times vs. Microsoft and OpenAI Lawsuit on AI and Copyright Laws

In a move that could redefine the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law, The New York…

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Adam Blackington is a veteran Data Center, Cloud, Network, and Systems Architect based in Washington, D.C. Adam co-founded LionLink Networks, a small ISP in Ashburn, Virginia operating AS54098, in 2011. Originally an owner/operator, Adam gained a vast amount of business and technical knowledge which allows him to architect and present unique solutions to both business and technical stakeholders. Adam holds multiple industry leading certifications, such as the AWS Solutions Architect Professional and the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect. Adam was formerly employed as a Solutions Architect at both Google Cloud and AWS. Adam is a philanthropist and you can see the organizations and charities that he supports here.