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Inside the Fastly Outage: Analysis and Lessons Learned>
At approximately 9:50 UTC (5:50 AM ET) on June 8, 2021, Fastly—a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider—suffered a major outage that impacted the sites and applications of its many customers....
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Ep. 41: Akamai Prolexic Outage Analysis + Takeaways>
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. I’m joined by ThousandEyes’ BGP expert, Kemal Sanjta, to review the June 17th outage of...
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Akamai Prolexic Routed Outage Analysis>
Beginning at 4:20 UTC June 17 (9:20 PM PDT June 16), Akamai’s DDoS mitigation service, Prolexic Routed, experienced a service disruption that rendered some of its customers’ websites unreachable for...
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ThousandEyes Hack Day 2021: Innovation League, Assemble!>
ThousandEyes + Cisco = A Hack Day to Remember The Innovation League strikes again, bringing new ideas with them. Hack Day is back in full swing at ThousandEyes with more excitement, innovation and...
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Ep. 42: BGP Routing Incident Shows Why the Shortest Path Isn’t Always the...
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Today, Kemal and I unpack an interesting BGP incident, in which a large-scale route leak...
View ArticleHow to Favorably Tackle Service Assurance Issues in the New Enterprise Reality>
Delivering high-performing digital service is core to building customer relationships and enabling employee productivity. But digital business is fundamentally changing, with many owning less of the...
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Akamai DNS Outage Analysis>
On July 22, at approximately 8:38AM PT, Akamai’s DNS—a critical service which directs users to its CDN edge—suffered an outage that prevented users around the globe from reaching its customers’ sites....
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Ep. 43: The Akamai DNS Outage and the Case for CDN Redundancy>
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. I’m joined today by Mike Hicks, principal solutions analyst here at ThousandEyes, to cover the...
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Coffee Chat with Zhanna, Sales Specialist>
Welcome to our Coffee Chat series, a place where we sit down with a delicious cup of coffee and get to know one of our ThousandEyes team members. Today, I’m joined by Zhanna Amirova, a sales specialist...
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Ep. 44: When BGP Routes Accidentally Get Hijacked: A Lesson in Internet...
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Today, Mike and I discuss a recent BGP routing incident that had intermittent impacts on...
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Optimizing App Delivery Over Complex Cloud Architectures>
Even the most straightforward application today can be remarkably complex, interlacing several major components in its path to the end user. On its way to delivering digital services to your customers...
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Coffee Chat with Sergio, Software Engineering Leader>
Welcome to our Coffee Chat series, a place where we sit down with a delicious cup of coffee and get to know one of our ThousandEyes team members. Today, I’m joined by Sergio Freitas, a software...
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Coffee Chat with Michael, Customer Engineering Leader>
Welcome to our Coffee Chat series, a place where we sit down with a delicious cup of coffee and get to know one of our ThousandEyes team members. Today, I’m joined by Michael Green, a customer delivery...
View ArticleHow To Isolate App Experience Issues Without the Finger-Pointing>
An application without the network is like a rowboat without a paddle: it will keep you afloat but will not move you forward in the direction you want to go. And in this cloud-native ecosystem that we...
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Tips for Transit: SD-WAN Best Practices to Assure Performance>
Digital transformation is magnifying and multiplying at an accelerated pace across industries and regions, and nowhere is this change more evident than in the enterprise network. SD-WANs are fast...
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Communicating Across Silos with a Continuous Improvement Approach>
Continuous improvement is fundamental to DevOps, as they operate in a constantly evolving world of continuous integration and continuous deployment, built on an expectation of ever-improving quality...
View ArticleThousandEyes Engineering Kickoff: Innovation at Scale>
It’s that time of year again at ThousandEyes where we take a look back at all we’ve achieved over the past year, and get excited about the opportunity ahead. This year’s company-wide kickoff focused on...
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Facebook Outage Analysis>
[Oct 6, 10:10 am PT] Facebook has published a more detailed report of the incident, which fully aligns with the analysis provided below. Facebook’s statement that their backbone network went down prior...
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Ep. 45: The Facebook Outage, Explained>
This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Today I’m joined by Gustavo Ramos, ThousandEyes Principal Network Engineer, and we’re going to...
View ArticleThree Steps to Gaining Visibility into Your Hybrid Workforce>
It’s become clear that we’re entering the era of the hybrid workforce. According to Cisco’s 2021 Hybrid Work Index, 64% of workers agree that the ability to work from anywhere versus coming into the...
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