As part of the launch of our new DEM product, Network Insights, we recently ran a five-part blog series on BGP, providing engineers with detailed information on how BGP works. This blog focuses instead on the basics of BGP for the non-network engineer. What is BGP? Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)…
In a world of CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) and constant testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle, teams can easily overlook the importance of post-incident reviews. The continuous improvement of monitoring and incident response processes require thorough post-incident analyses of both technology and people. Integrating experience monitoring tools with…
Today is a special day at Catchpoint. Here at Google NEXT in San Francisco, we are announcing the monitoring industry’s first fully managed service. Catchpoint Managed Monitoring gives IT teams relief from the burden of 24/7 alert investigation, script maintenance, and strategic planning by putting them completely in the hands…
2018 was a big year for the Catchpoint platform. Our product team, engineers, and designers made massive improvements to our platform. We updated our user interface, launched new monitors, and created better ways for users to organize and visualize their data. All in all, these changes are improving mean time…
Many of the most sophisticated DevOps teams at companies like Google, Microsoft, and L’Oreal choose Catchpoint Synthetic Monitoring because of its ability to simulate end-user experiences accurately. Over 20 distinct tests, deployed from over 700 nodes across the globe, provide visibility not only into application performance but the entire delivery…
Every day people use the internet to buy new clothes, manage their bank accounts and view their health records. This information is sensitive and needs to be kept safe, the main mechanism for this is encryption. For the internet, this means wrapping the language of the web, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with…
This is a guest blog post from Carl Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist at NS1. Boasting the largest population of internet users in the world, China remains one of the greatest opportunities and risks in the proliferation of an open, and free internet. While the country has been “online” since the…
In nearly every new version of Chrome, there are notable updates, bug fixes, and new features added to the new version. This often requires developers to change their code to accommodate the new changes so that the performance, reliability, and user experience of their website can be maximized. In 2009, Google…
Digital transformation is a phenomenon that is revolutionizing the tasks and activities we perform daily. Everything from news consumption to communication has been re-imagined and digitalized. End users’ expectations are rapidly increasing, and with competition just a click away, it’s critical to develop an end user experience monitoring strategy to meet…
This is a guest post contributed by Cloudinary, a cloud-based service that provides an end-to-end image and video management solution including uploads, storage, administration, manipulation, and delivery. Learn more about their PHP image upload capabilities here. Uploading images, especially at scale, is completely inefficient if you choose to do it manually. Businesses…
