Business operations have been revolutionized by the advent of web-computing services. Many organizations now look to decrease or eliminate expenditure, increase efficiency, and maximize profits by moving their processes online because of the unmatched flexibility and ability to scale the cloud affords them.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a unique blend of software engineering and systems engineering aimed at ensuring scalable and reliable systems. SREs strive to build high-quality, reliable software while keeping up with fast-paced development cycles. To achieve these goals, they utilize various tools that help monitor, automate, and optimize performance.
In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE), failure is not only an option, but also expected. Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. It is an unavoidable fact. These unexpected failures can lead to huge revenue losses,
In one of our previous articles, we discussed what an SRE is, what they do, and some of the common responsibilities that a typical SRE may have, like supporting operations, dealing with trouble tickets and incident response, and general system monitoring and observability. In this article, we will take a
What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is a set of principles and practices that applies software engineering techniques to the challenges of IT operations. SRE originated at Google when engineers needed a more systematic, software-oriented approach to manage and optimize their massive infrastructure. SRE’s main goal
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are fundamental for SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses. They outline the performance standards clients expect, such as uptime, response times, and support. SLA compliance isn’t just about meeting these standards; it’s about building trust, preventing churn, and sustaining a positive brand reputation. For SaaS businesses,
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a collection of distributed nodes, called edge servers, connected to the same origin servers and placed local to the users’ location. If you are using a CDN, your website content is delivered to the user from the nearest edge server to their location. Without
Dotcom-Monitor has detected that Reddit.com has gone down on 3/10/2016 around 8:30 PM CST, returning a 503 error “all of our servers are busy right now”. This seemed to be a complete outage from all locations around the US until approximately 9:05 PM CST.
Can your Customers Reach Your Website? You may have been aware that a large DNS provider, Neustar UltraDNS experienced an extended outage on Thursday 10/16/2015 which caused many of the largest websites in the world to be unavailable for over an hour and a half. Recent large scale internet
October 15: Neustar UltraDNS Outage October 15, 2015 – Neustar UltraDNS Down – Dotcom-Monitor is tracking a Neustar UltraDNS outage at this time. The UltraDNS outage appears to have started at approximately 4:00 pm CST. The UltraDNS issue resulted in (as it should) error alerts to clients. Monitoring that does not cache DNS
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