
Monitoring Serverless Applications
Serverless. It’s likely you’ve already come across this term somewhere, but what exactly does it mean? Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing, doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved,

How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers
As an ad publisher, your revenue depends on two main factors: traffic to your site and ad optimization. A lot of the focus goes into the practice and processes of

What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China
In this current age of the Internet, it’s a common practice to build a website to run your online business. With the networks all around the world, theoretically, you can

Internal Applications: Monitoring from Behind Your Firewall
As companies decide whether or not to move ahead with an “everything in the cloud” strategy for providing consumer-facing applications, enterprise applications are also getting a new shape with web-based

How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the

DNS Blacklist Monitoring: Protect Your Company’s Reputation
Did you know that around 306 billion emails have been sent globally every day in 2020 and about 45 percent of all emails received are spam. Even more surprisingly, websites that

How China’s Internet Infrastructure Affects Page Load Speed of Websites Hosted Outside of China
If you’re thinking about starting or expanding your overseas business, China, as the world’s second largest economy, should be a good choice. You may also want to have a Chinese

The Importance of Monitoring SSL Certificates
Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a global security standard technology that is being adopted by a number of different organizations across the globe. Essentially, SSLs are small data files

Do You Do Business In China? Must Know Facts About China’s Internet
Cyberspace in China is a notorious area for foreign businesses. It’s a complex system with bans, regulations, and oversight. The country has strict controls over the internet, and even more,

Monitoring Applications That Use Azure ADFS
ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) is a solution from Microsoft for single sign-on (SSO) functionality. It is used by organizations that have their users on Windows Servers to provide authentication

SLA Compliance for SaaS Businesses
SaaS businesses are built upon the simplicity of computing, storage, and networking they provide to their users. Web and mobile applications provided by SaaS businesses are meant to be straight

The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance
The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile, that control internet