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When DNS Fails in the Cloud: DNS Performance and Troubleshooting

Kentik

To facilitate the migration of our applications we split DNS into three tiers: Data center-based resolution from the cloud over VPN, to DC-hosted DNS resolvers. Cloud-based DNS for our partners and customers (SaaS DNS). Cloud-based DNS for resolution within our cloud service provider (PaaS DNS).

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Pumas, Routers & Keepalives—Oh my!

Heroku

This week , Heroku made Router 2.0 Throughout the Router 2.0 A small subset of Puma applications would experience increased response times upon enabling the Router 2.0 flag, reflected in customers Heroku dashboards and router logs. flag, reflected in customers Heroku dashboards and router logs. dyno root@router.1019708

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

According to a statement published last night, Facebook Engineering wrote, “Configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” For example, in IPv4, Facebook authoritative server a.ns.facebook.com resolves to the address 129.134.30.12

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Anatomy of an OTT traffic surge: Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Kentik

In an effort to regularize the deployment of software patches and updates to their software, Microsoft, years ago, designated this the day of the month to be when patches get pushed out globally to computers, servers, and other devices running Microsoft’s operating systems. OTT Service Tracking. How does OTT Service Tracking help?

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Back in the 1990s, NetFlow was introduced on Cisco routers as a means to collect information about IP network traffic as it enters or exits an interface. If you are thinking that those represent HTTP and HTTPS, you would be largely correct, but that doesn’t mean it’s traffic involving web servers. How did this happen?

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How to measure the performance of a website

Kentik

To be more specific: slowness can be introduced as your digital connection traverses your PC, the local wifi/wired connection, the local ISP, the Tier 1 or Tier 2 provider, or the CDN that provides the hardware which hosts the web server running the application. Where is the DNS? As a result, this event introduces additional slowness.

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Why is my SaaS application so slow?

Kentik

To properly monitor them, it’s paramount to find out which servers your end users are connecting to. This is sort of a long shot, but are you using a corporate DNS server? You might try temporarily switching to a public DNS like Google’s 8.8.8.8. DNS lookups can introduce significant latency on new connections.