As the first step that must take place before connecting to a website, the Domain Name System (DNS) is an important lever to improve performance, as well as security. Many enterprises choose to run and manage their own recursive resolver for internal users, as this limits the sharing of data…
Happy Halloween week! Today we’re bringing you the first in a series of spooky stories of Internet and IT operations gone awry. To start us off, we’re revisiting the horror that was the Dyn outage two years. On October 21, 2018, Internet users around the globe were cut off from…
Today, ThousandEyes is launching our first ever Global DNS Performance Report, covering the state of domain name system (DNS) infrastructure around the globe, for both IPv4 and IPv6. This report will be the first edition of what will become an annual release. We’ve been looking at the performance of DNS…
In our previous post, we covered some of the many Building Blocks of SaaS and how to manage their inherent risks. In today’s post, we dive into the five operational habits of successful SaaS delivery and some concrete ways you can seed these habits in your own organization. These operational…
No man is an island. And no SaaS application sits alone, independent of networks and services that have a hand in its delivery. It doesn’t matter how elastic, containerized, and NoSQL you are; how cloudy, software-defined, and chilled your data centers, if your CDN is slow, if your DNS is…