Blue Canoe

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Building Blue Canoe

The infrastructure, engineering decisions and evidence behind the current Blue Canoe platform.

This collection follows the work in the order it became possible: the network edge, the internal back channel, authoritative DNS and DNSSEC, the replacement mail platform, and the systems built on those foundations.

  1. Pre-Tik and Post-Tik: The Router That Unblocked EverythingHow replacing a constrained ISP router unlocked Blue Canoe's wider DNSSEC, mail and network programme.
  2. 10Gb Where It Matters: Building the Back ChannelWhy Blue Canoe separated ordinary service traffic from a 10Gb backend network for replication, backups and infrastructure operations.