posted 05/11/2012 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments
One feature used by Cedexis Openmix is a simple liveness check service that complements the availability score provided by Radar measurements. Customers use it to augment Radar availability information with a simple HTTP-based ping to a given URL. Up until today we’ve been calling this feature “Pulse Live”, but it is now named “Sonar” thanks
posted 05/07/2012 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments
Have you ever thought that your Openmix application was simple enough that you shouldn’t need to write a PHP script to implement your business logic? Today we’ve introduced the idea of Openmix Quick Start applications to address this question. The first Openmix Quick Start application type is used for static routing where Openmix hands back
posted 01/26/2012 by Greg Unrein, comments: 2 comments
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
posted 10/11/2011 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments
I thought it would be interesting to follow up on Ed’s post about detecting Amazon CloudFront in Brazil from a couple of weeks ago to see how HTTP Response Time to CloudFront compares between the two weeks prior to its introduction and the two weeks after. In order to do so I looked at the five
posted 09/06/2011 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments
Last week we took a look at the types of Openmix applications that are currently in use to inform some development priorities. It turns out that the vast majority of the applications, at 82%, are coded to return the platform with the best response time. When we drilled into these response time-optimized applications we saw that
posted 08/31/2011 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments
Cedexis Openmix applications are at the heart of Openmix and automatically route each visitor to the optimal destination based on your definition of optimal. Applications can use information from Cedexis Radar, Pulse, and Fusion as well as any static data you include in the code itself. Each application is composed of two parts: initialization; and, servicing requests. These
posted 08/28/2011 by Greg Unrein, comments: 0 comments
With the bulk of Hurricane Irene past northern Virginia it is safe to say that Amazon EC2 US-East’s availability and performance has been impressive. Nice work! Availability over 24 hours (worldwide) Latency over 24 hours (worldwide) These results stand in stark contrast to the issues that occurred in April. All times are GMT. Cedexis Radar was used to collect the