Weekly Show 411: Understanding Global DNS Architecture with ThousandEyes (Sponsored)

Summary: On today’s Weekly Show we discuss measuring application performance across a network. We’re going to focus on a couple of specific scenarios with our sponsor, ThousandEyes.<br> First is the global domain name system, or DNS. DNS is that first step before one system can contact another, turning a hostname into a numerical address.<br> DNS performance matters, because not much else in an application transaction is getting done until name resolution is completed.<br> ThousandEyes recently completed an <a href="https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/2018-global-dns-performance-benchmark-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensive report on global DNS performance</a>. We’ll talk about how ThousandEyes gathered data for the report, and examine some of its key findings.<br> The second scenario is endpoint tests, where you can see exactly how an app is performing on the system using the app.<br> We’ll discuss the kinds of tests you can perform, and the insights you can glean to understand performance and speed up troubleshooting.<br> Our guests are Angelique Medina, Senior Product Marketing Manager; and Ameet Naik, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, both from the team at ThousandEyes.<br> Show Links:<br> <a href="https://www.thousandeyes.com/resources/2018-global-dns-performance-benchmark-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 Global DNS Performance Benchmark Report</a> – ThousandEyes<br> <a href="https://blog.thousandeyes.com/author/amedina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angelique Medina’s Blog</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/bitprints" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angelique Medina on Twitter</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/naik_ameet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ameet Naik on Twitter</a><br>