Collecting a billion measurements a day from over 30,000 networks provides insight I wish I’d had when managing hosted security operations at my previous job. We had over 2,500 physical and virtual instances across 3 main data centers. Each data center was, of course, multi-homed and we bought transit and peering from a redundant set
Last week we finished and demonstrated an integration between Openmix and New Relic, a service for monitoring server and application health, in which measurements from New Relic were used to decide whether a specific data center should be included in the list of candidate traffic destinations. This integration opens up the possibility of using any
Our Director of Business Development Northern Europe, Jason Turner, will represent Cedexis at Cloud Expo Europe, the exhibition dedicated to the Cloud to be held in London from January 25 to 26. You can schedule a meeting with him now : jason_at_cedexis.com
Cedexis Openmix is the Load Balancer of the future: adaptive, intelligent and scriptable . To demonstrate the power of Openmix we’ve published several examples in the Openmix Application Library. However, with great power comes great responsibility so we need a testing tool capable of harnessing and double checking each application. Simply writing an Openmix Application
One Billion! Cedexis history was made yesterday, when we passed the 1 billion mark in daily recorded Public Radar measurements. Over one billion (1,060,620,742 to be exact) pieces of public website performance data were recorded for Jan 11th, 2012. Why is this number important? Well, perhaps the number itself is not, but the fact that
The biggest fear of numerous website managers is a sudden boost in traffic load that can quickly shut down the hosting environment at origin. This kind of incident happens when an ad campaign is launched, a link is published on website with a strong audience (thus the “Slashdot” effect) or when a TV show is
This week, Amazon announced that it would be starting a round of scheduled maintenance of EC2 instances which caused a stir in the Twittersphere. The maintenance window is 6 hours long. AWS customers were notified this week that EC2 instances would be rebooted next week. Speculation on the reasons and impact of the AWS reboot
Our friends at NetDNA are having a Cyber Monday deal that looks hard to resist. The deal is probably better than any Groupon deal that you’ve seen. $1 for the first TB — 98% savings! According to the pricing page, the regular price in US and Europe would be $61.44 for the first TB of traffic But
This week I had the opportunity to attend a face-off sponsored by the Seattle Web Technology Meetup Group. Rather than a pitch from vendors, the face-off featured a company using each technology stack to educate the audience on the respective merits and gotchas of the stacks. I thought it would be interesting to examine the
Created in 2007 by 4 ex-leaders of Expedia, TVTrip is a hotel products comparison engine combining videos, web customers reviews and map search. With more than 135,000 hotels reference and 60,000 videos provided online, TVTrip quickly became the leader of its market. To achieve this goal, TVTrip had to revamp its architecture originally based in
