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The RIPE Labs Article Competition - RIPE 92

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The RIPE Labs article competition is open! Have something interesting to say about the past, present, or future state of the Internet? Tell your story on RIPE Labs and win a chance to join us at RIPE 92 this May in Edinburgh.

Everything you need to know about the competition, including a more specific list of what we look from the best RIPE Labs articles, is available on the RIPE Labs Competition Rules page.

If you're eligible to enter and you have an idea for an article you’d like to put forward, it's time to get to work. All articles submitted to the competition will go through the usual RIPE Labs review process. When you're ready to send us your entry, just remember to tick the box indicating you'd like this article to be considered for the competition entry before you click to submit it for approval.

We'll stop taking new entries on 3 April 2026 at 23:00 (local Amsterdam time). If you're looking for inspiration, you can see entries from the previous competitions here and here. Good luck!


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When ToR Instability Collapses Cross-Rack Redundancy Without Breaching SLA

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Ruslan Seyidov

7 min read

This article examines a two-rack deployment where ToR instability quietly collapsed redundancy while SLA metrics remained within bounds, revealing how service-level monitoring can mask structural risk.

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Ukraine as a Laboratory of Internet Resilience

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Eliza Rohotska

14 min read

Ukraine’s Internet has not collapsed under invasion - it has adapted. This article examines what that reveals about the concept of resilience in the context of Internet infrastructure and the people who keep the networks running.

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Testing IXP Configurations Without Breaking Production: A Digital Twin Approach

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Tommaso Caiazzi

7 min read

Configuration mistakes at an IXP can have immediate impact. Building on the earlier IXP Digital Twin project, this article presents a new dashboard that enables operators to recreate production environments, validate routing state, and test member onboarding off production.

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RootViz: New Root DNS Reachability Dashboard

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Giovane Moura

6 min read

In this guest post, the team at SIDN Labs introduce a new dashboard built on RIPE Atlas data that lets the community visualise real-time measurement results and explore how probes reach the Internet’s root DNS servers.

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