Today we announced a growth investment round of $50 million led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from one new investor, Thomvest Ventures, plus all of our existing investors. More than three years after our last investment of $35 million with phenomenal market adoption and still more than half of the investment untouched, why would we raise another round? To take…
Keeping track of the size of a Kafka topic and watching it vary over time helped us uncover unexpected patterns that might seem mysterious to the inexperienced cluster administrator. Even with limits set, the reported size can vary vastly. Periodic spikes upon deletion of data can be seen, with a…
At the beginning of 2019, it’s worth taking stock of IT Ops initiatives. One of the biggest takeaways from 2018 is that cloud adoption and the digitization of customer experiences are mainstreaming and it’s high time for IT Ops teams to catch up. A follow-on takeaway is that gaining visibility…
What if we told you that 1 second could mean 7% more revenue? Time is Money. Seconds count big time in terms of website conversions, revenue, stickiness... loyalty. That’s why application performance monitoring is a multi-billion dollar business. The graphic below shows how critical performance is to business result.
DNS Flag Day is here and with it comes new changes that could impact your domain’s availability. What do you need to know and how can you quickly identify its impacts on you and your users? Read on for our quick guide to what it’s all about and how to…
Quad9 has deployed its public DNS resolver solution at nearly 150 locations worldwide, in 84 nations. With such a widely-distributed set of servers and services, having adequate visibility into performance behaviors is a critical and difficult task when validating operational metrics and alerting on out-of-normal conditions. Both our core DNS…