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EP143: DNS Record Types You Should Know

ByteByteGo

This week’s system design refresher: 8 Most Important System Design Concepts You Should Know (Youtube Video) DNS Record Types You Should Know Polling Vs Webhooks API Vs SDK! Here are the 8 most commonly used DNS Record Types. PTR Record Provides reverse DNS lookup, mapping an IP address back to a domain name.

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EP145: Infrastructure as Code Landscape

ByteByteGo

DNS lookup begins (think of it as looking up a phone number). The request goes through different DNS servers (root, TLD, and authoritative). First up, you type the website address in the browser’s address bar. The browser checks its cache first. If there’s a cache miss, it must find the IP address.

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DNS Zone Setup Best Practices on Azure

Cloudera Blog

In Cloudera deployments on public cloud, one of the key configuration elements is the DNS. If the DNS is set up less ideal than it could be, connectivity and performance issues may arise. In this blog, we’ll take you through our tried and tested best practices for setting up your DNS for use with Cloudera on Azure.

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Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era

Kentik

A new research report, “ Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era ,” looks at the networking challenges enterprises face as they move to cloud environments. There are countless engineering tasks involved in building out hybrid cloud and multi-cloud networks,” writes analyst McGillicuddy in the report.

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Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Kentik

Kentik’s OTT Service Tracking (part of Kentik Service Provider Analytics) combines DNS queries with NetFlow to allow a user to understand exactly how OTT services are being delivered - an invaluable capability when trying to determine what is responsible for the latest traffic surge. OTT Service Tracking.

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Monitoring DNS with Kentik Detect

Kentik

Dashboards for DNS Metrics Reveal Issues With Your Infrastructure. Working behind the scenes, Domain Name Server (DNS) is often overlooked, but it’s one of the most critical pieces of the Internet infrastructure. That point was driven home by the Mirai DDoS attack last October against the DNS infrastructure of Dyn, Inc.

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EP141: How to Ace System Design Interviews Like a Boss?

ByteByteGo

Proactive performance monitoring using New Relic AI (Sponsored) Managing complex technology stacks and ensuring continuous uptime are critical challenges for modern engineering teams. Used in DNS querying and CDNs. Over to you: What else would you add to the process? The solution? Proactive performance monitoring.

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