As we discussed in our first post about benchmarking network performance in China, half of the battle of monitoring applications in China is setting new expectations for what performance should normally look like; often metrics like packet loss and latency will be significantly higher than outside the Great Firewall.
When folks talk about end user or ‘real user’ monitoring, they usually mean injecting code (often Javascript) into an application to measure user behavior and timing. This can be great to complement an application monitoring strategy. But this sort of method doesn’t work when the application in question isn’t yours…
As explained in our recent blog post, The DDoS Attack on Dyn’s DNS Infrastructure, a large-scale DDoS attack took down a good chunk of the Internet on the morning of Friday, October 21st. It was a very busy morning for anyone involved with website reliability and network operations in any…
On January 13th, Powerball announced the winners of the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. Nearly $1.5B was up for grabs and with more than 635 million tickets sold, punters scrambled to check the winning numbers as they were announced at 8pm PT. There were three big winners. The Powerball…
Measuring web performance can give you insights into what causes your web pages to load slowly (or quickly), how CDNs affect load times and how third party objects affect user experience. You can also determine whether web server or network performance is affecting your service. And the best way to…