Cloud revolutionized eCommerce. Ditching costly hardware maintenance and sweaty server rooms is a blessing, but it came with its own curse: unavoidable, uncontrollable downtime. Content Delivery Network (CDN) outages hit global corporations the hardest, costing millions per minute and wreaking havoc on loyal clients. One Bug, Thousands of Outages June 8th, 2021 – the date […]
Web Performance
With over 20 years of web performance experience spanning over countless verticals & use cases, we break the boundaries of off-the-shelf products and vanilla configurations to create the optimal performance stack for your business. As a lifelong partner of world-leading CDN providers, we exhaust all features and beta programs to creatively seize every opportunity to optimize your performance and costs.
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Old Dogs, New Tricks: Innovating with CDNs Today’s digital businesses with global customers cannot afford slow page loads and applications caused by physical distance and latency issues. Page load speeds can have a significant effect on customer acquisition and retention. Walmart discovered that a 1% increase in page load time results in a 2% increase in conversion rates. So businesses are using […]
20th April, 2022 -
Automatically trigger CDN purge on S3 change A CDN requires an origin server, which can be a S3 bucket. s3-trigger-purge-cdn are python scripts that run as Lambda functions, and are triggered by file uploads to the bucket. Once triggered, the Lambda function will attempt to purge the old file from the CDN cache. Currently supported CDN vendors: Standalone Legacy mode While I […]
19th April, 2022 -
Single vs. Multi CDN: Pros, Cons, Technical & Operational Considerations CDNs are crucial for user experience and your reputation Being around for a long time, CDNs are now an essential part of modern Internet service. A CDN helps a content owner deliver content at high speeds. This is done as a distributed system, where different servers are deployed in different datacenters worldwide and share the […]
18th April, 2022 -
5 Reasons to Use jQuery CDN in Your Website Many different programming languages have emerged throughout computer programming and capabilities. However, some are more useful and dynamic than others: jQuery CDN is one of the most useful languages to learn and implement. A JavaScript library, such as jQuery CDN, is a collection of pre-written code. Instead of writing their code, web and application developers […]
10th January, 2022 -
How to make the most out of your CDN from the start A 2022 business needs a 2022 IT infrastructure Cloud infrastructure and Web Performance optimization have become the only means for software as a service (SAAS) companies to build scalable products, especially those targeting a large users base. At the crux of taking decisions on your IT infrastructure, certain technologies such as CDN, WAF, DNS, etc. […]
2nd January, 2022 -
Innovation for Global Scaling: The END. Case Study How to Go Global when You Are Unscalable? END. Clothing is a UK-based, eCommerce-native fashion retailer. It brings both established & young, cutting-edge luxury brands under one roof, with a specialty of limited-edition items. With fashion becoming more and more digitized over the last decade, END.’s traffic was growing quickly, both in volume and geo […]
20th December, 2021 -
Case Study: Fashion Retailer Grows 45% with Holistic Performance & Security Suite To grow global, every online retailer needs globally scalable technology stack. This case study reveals how GlobalDots geared UK-based fashion retailer END. Clothing with the latest innovation from established and rising vendors: CDN, image optimization and security solutions. As a result, END. greatly improved its website performance and global presence, while lowering eCommerce TCO. The financial […]
20th December, 2021 -
GlobalDots & NPAW’s CDN balancing solution aims for 100% content availability GlobalDots put its CDN expertise to work with NPAW, to create an “uncrushable” load balancing solution for online content delivery. “Current methods of CDN balancing are not as reactive and are more prone to errors, while NPAW’s CDN Active Switching breakthrough – developed with GlobalDots – is capable of neutralizing CDN loading challenges not addressed […]
21st October, 2021 -
Downtime is Pricy, Solution isn’t: How to Stay Out of DNS Outages The recent global DNS outages, with the latest addition of Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp, are a call to transform your approach to DNS solutions. In this webinar, we explore whether cloud-borne environments are really fail-proof and how businesses can use the most advanced cybersecurity methods and DNS solutions to minimize their risk of server failures, code misconfigurations, DDoS […]
13th October, 2021 -
Webinar: Stay Out of Outages – The BCP Element No One Talks About The onslaught of recent outages at major infrastructure providers like Fastly, Cloudflare and Akamai, reminds us of the importance of a holistic business continuity strategy that leaves nothing to chance. Yes, that includes often-overlooked web protocols like DNS. Learn about the DNS strategies that can increase uptime on this webinar, featuring our friends at NS1.
13th October, 2021 -
Webinar: Never Buffer – A New World Benchmark for Content Delivery Success Abstract This webinar, presented by GlobalDots and NPAW, will showcase a new CDN balancing solution and discuss the benefits and advantages of having a multi-CDN strategy for video delivery. Speakers
11th October, 2021 -
Facebook Will Happen Again: DNS Outages and Interconnected Systems Last week’s massive outage on the Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp ecosystem left many of us puzzled and concerned: How did our entire social communication (and news source for many) become so dependent in a single, non-regulated conglomerate? How come this conglomerate can fail over a seemingly-trivial reason such as DNS? And what are the dangers of our over-reliance […]
11th October, 2021