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My 2 cents on the AWS failure and lessons learned from the past.
A lot has been published already about AWS EC2 failure, I wanted to add my 2 cents on the issue as it reminded me of a notorious event that happened to DoubleClick in August 2000. What AWS and their...
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Royal Wedding & The Internet…
I read an article yesterday predicting that the Royal Wedding was going to be a big stress test to the Internet. To observe the impact of the Royal Wedding on the Internet, I decided to monitor some of...
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Who turned the Internet Off?
I started this Monday morning, like any other Monday catching up with the office in NY via Skype. Out of the sudden I lost my internet connectivity. Not the first time it happened, so I figured out it...
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Newegg Google Offer Hiccups
Newegg.com ran a special promotion “$40 for $20″ on Google Offer this CyberMonday. The offer attracted a large number of web users, and caused performance hiccups for both Google Offers and Newegg.com....
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When DNS Sneezes, Web Speed Catches a Cold
For our frequent readers, it is no surprise that we firmly believe DNS has a huge impact on Performance. One of the biggest challenges with DNS is understanding what impact various DNS issues can have...
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Facebook Outage: Wake Up Call For Websites!
Back in October 2011 we wrote about web pages turning into airports without air controllers. Web pages have become a very complex ecosystem relying on many third-party tags for advertising, behavioral...
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Holiday Shopping 2012: Checklist to Fast Sites
We are exactly a month away from the start of the busiest time of year for the Ecommerce industry and there is the great possibility that in 2012 more money will be processed via “online” cash...
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The Domino Effect of LinkedIn’s DNS Outage
On Wednesday night users trying to access LinkedIn site were redirected to servers owned by Confluence Labs. The outage lasted a couple of hours and a post mortem Thursday described the issue as...
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Apple: Please Support Navigation Timing API in Safari
Today many websites leverage Real User Measurement (RUM) technologies to measure and optimize user experience. The primary method to collect the data is based on the Navigation Timing API spec from...
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How the NYT Was Up When It Was Down
Yesterday, the big web news story of the day was the NYT outage. But the bigger performance story of the day was not the fact the NYT was down for a few hours, but rather, how the NYT team did all...
View ArticleMastering Disaster – NY Velocity Ignite Presentation
Recent web failures, like the highly publicized crash of Obamacare’s website last week, have put unfortunate businesses in the spotlight and the lucky ones on high alert. Even companies with sterling...
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The Dropped Box that Trembled the World
This past weekend, the media was ablaze with another online outage – and this time it was not a major ecommerce site, social network, or cloud provider. Dropbox, a very popular file sharing system,...
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Relying on Web Performance Monitoring to Discover Release Problems
In the 1990s the websites were quite simple, served by a single server talking to a single database, JavaScript and Flash had just been introduced, AJAX was being developed, and HTTP 1.0 protocol was...
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Healthcare.gov failing again?! Is There a Web Perf Doctor in the House?
We’re at the end of the busiest online shopping weekend of the year, Black Friday to Cyber Monday. All eyes are on the major ecommerce websites as they drop their prices and handle millions of users...
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John Oliver Brings Down the FCC’s Website
As you likely already know, net neutrality has been a pretty hot topic in Washington and around the country (including the Catchpoint offices) over the past several months, with the FCC unveiling a new...
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The Widespread Effects of Facebook’s Latest Outage
Every day, hundreds of millions of users access Facebook, either through the site’s homepage, or through widgets and APIs on other sites. So when the social media giant experiences an outage in their...
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Holiday Shopping Guide: What To Do When Failure Happens
No matter how much you monitor and how well you prepare, web failures are going to happen; it’s an unfortunate reality of life in the DevOps world. Sometimes it’s a redirect to a boring 404 page, a...
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Why Outages Are the Scariest Thing for DevOps – and Businesses
Forget the ghouls, witches, and monsters. The scariest thing for a DevOps person is the effect that a web outage will have on his or her company. For example, take Facebook. The social media giant is...
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Houston, Citi Has a Problem
Ever type a URL into your browser’s navigation bar and omit the ‘www.’ prefix? Of course you have, because most sites are set up nowadays to make the ‘www.’ unnecessary for the end user. So on Monday...
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DoubleClick Outage Causes Serious Issues Across the Web
If you found yourself struggling to access one of your favorite sites this morning, there’s a good chance that DoubleClick was the culprit. The Google-owned adserver experienced a significant outage...
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