DNS is the most important component of the Internet. It is basically responsible for translating hostnames to their respective IP addresses, the process of which is quite simple to understand. DNS directs users to your website based on the address information retrieved through the DNS resolution process. There are several…
On June 29, Comcast and their customers suffered an Internet outage from two fiber cuts at Level3 and Zayo. This outage frustrated millions of consumers across the country for several hours. Those red spots above are a nightmare for any SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or Enterprise company affected – not only…
Phones connect people to the world. An update about the news, text from friends or an email from work; phones provide insights into everything. With Catchpoint’s new mobile app, users can stay connected to Catchpoint for insights on their applications. The app is now available on the Apple AppStore at…
Google is on a mission to make the web faster. In 2010, they included page speed as a contributing factor to search rankings, but this focused only on desktop search results. Starting in July, they will be extending that to mobile devices. Mobile load times will now be a factor…
It has been a month since the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR was brought into effect across the European Union. GDPR was borne out of a need for stricter privacy rules governing the digital economy and was formally adopted in April 2016, it is a set of rules that…
We get upset and frustrated when a site we are trying to access is unavailable. That frustration multiplies when we can’t reach any site on the internet. On Friday, June 29th, Comcast experienced a major outage caused by two unrelated fiber cuts to their network backbone providers. Media reports the…
DNS is the most important component of the engine that keeps the internet running. If DNS is not managed effectively or the servers go down, applications are inaccessible and users are frustrated. Public DNS servers are becoming the preferred DNS server among the internet population. They improve the online customer…
Monitorama is one of my favorite conferences to attend. It is about one of my favorite subjects (monitoring) and is hosted in one of my favorite cities (Portland). It always surprises me how similar the themes are across the talks at a single-track conference like this; one might think that…
Technology teams are not immune to hype and trends. Today one of the hottest topics is Observability. Everyone seems to be jumping on the observability bandwagon. Companies are building observability teams and looking to purchase observability tools. Observability isn’t necessarily a new thing. Having spent two decades building, monitoring, and…
This is a guest blog post from Carl Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist at NS1. Boasting the largest population of internet users in the world, China remains one of the greatest opportunities and risks in the proliferation of an open, and free internet. While the country has been “online” since the…
