Every six months or so, we invite our employees to put aside their ‘day jobs’ and take action on a project that they believe will better some aspect of our company or business. Our theme this time was #HackTogether, placing an even greater emphasis on leveraging the collective talents of…
At ThousandEyes we are building the Endpoint Agent to measure end-user digital experience when accessing networked services from inside or outside the corporate network. The Endpoint Agent is a cross-platform system service, running on macOS and Windows, that conducts network tests and collects performance data from web browser sessions in…
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…
In a MongoDB sharded cluster, it is recommended to run mongos locally within the application to avoid network overhead that can slow down database queries. But how does this fit into a decentralized architecture that most enterprises are shifting towards and more importantly, how does this recommended model fit within…
Last week, along with summer solstice, we celebrated ThousandEyes Hackday: an internal event that brings cross-functional teams together to build something creative, while keeping it fun and exciting. In true ThousandEyes style, the event was innovative, witty and packed with high energy. The talent and dedication showcased by the different…