Containerization is more than just a trendy topic nowadays. With the rise of hybrid cloud environments and the ever-expanding adoption of containers, it’s important to start thinking about how to maintain visibility in these environments. Monitoring hybrid clouds presents many of the same challenges any hybrid environment would, but with the many moving parts that […]
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Lessons from the Recent Basecamp Outage
The weeks of March 4 and March 11 weren’t great for the popular project management and team communication software Basecamp. Basecamp’s CTO, David Heinemeier Hansson (also known as DHH) wrote two very honest posts about the outages and promised to do better for their customers. Luckily, Basecamp up until now had experienced few outages, and […]
DNSSEC Basics and How to Set Up DNS Security Extensions
We’ve mentioned security and DNSSEC in a few different places in this series, but we wanted to give DNSSEC basics proper attention as we put together our final post on DNS. Due to the nature of DNS, it’s just not secure on its own. When the DNS protocol was first written, the internet was much […]
Walmart Enters Cloud Platform Market
(April 1, 2019). In an early morning press release Walmart announced its plans to enter the on-demand cloud platform market. Seeking to take on its rival Amazon “on all fronts”, the retail giant will begin offering discount-priced metered computing services to businesses, government and individuals. “We feel there is an underserved segment in the hosted […]
Our Favorite Articles about Women in Tech from Women’s History Month 2019
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we want to share some content we read throughout the month of March that both celebrates women in tech and talks about the serious issues women face in our industry. Organizations to Watch In addition to the now rather large Girls Who Code, we found out about […]
How to avoid these common DNS Mistakes
Now that we’ve laid out some best practices, this week we wanted to talk about some common DNS mistakes we see many companies make when it comes to their hostname and authoritative DNS. Some of them may seem obvious because they ignore many of the best practices we’ve discussed previously, but we still want to […]
Best Practices for DNS monitoring
In our last post, we discussed some of the best practices for setting up DNS and making sure that it is working correctly, but this week, we’re going to talk about long term maintenance. DNS monitoring makes it far easier to know when you have an issue and where the issue occurred so you can […]
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