On August 19, 2020, the popular music streaming platform, Spotify, appeared to go offline for around an hour—frustrating listeners who were attempting to connect to the service. The outage appears to have occurred during business hours for most of Europe, but it was still very early in the morning for…
This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, I am joined by Deepak Ravi from our Dublin technical sales engineering team to discuss a recent outage at Garmin. According to its press release, Garmin confirmed that it…
Two years ago, we launched the inaugural edition of the Cloud Performance Benchmark Report, a metric-based, unbiased study that compares the network performance and connectivity architectures of the top public cloud providers. We soon realized that, because there is no steady-state in the cloud, yearly updates were necessary in order…
Businesses looking to capitalize on digital transformation efforts are building strategies around cloud environments and cloud services—hoping to improve service connectivity to end users and reduce overhead related to on-premise data centers. For years, IT decision-makers based their cloud computing strategies predominantly on criteria such as web application services offered,…
Monitoring how users interact with your website and baselining critical workflows through synthetic transaction monitoring is not an alien concept. It’s a technique that was developed a long time ago and continues to be a popular choice for application and ITOps/monitoring teams to validate changes and proactively monitor application performance.