Author Archive for Arijit Ghosh
Who am I? During the day, I push, fight, beg, plead, complain and even threaten –all so that I can ship products on time. At other times, I live to experience the variety of life – through experiences, culture, people, places and of course, food. Up until a few years ago I could have challenged you on the dance floor. Now, I prefer eating desserts. Oh, if you are free on Saturday mornings, contact me. My soccer team needs players!
Facebook SSL Mandate: What is SSL?
Privacy and security is a critical concern among today’s Web business owners and their end users. The recent mandate by Facebook that all custom tabs on fan pages must have an SSL certificate is a testimony of that. SSL is a standardized protocol that provides privacy and integrity between two applications communicating using TCP/IP. One [...]
Global Internet Speedup Initiative: A Look Under the Hood
You have probably heard about it – the Global Internet Speedup Initiative. If you are already using a CDN provider, you are probably wondering if and how this can have any impact on your website speed and application performance. And what has DNS got to do with all of this anyway? In order to understand [...]
Internet Outages: They Can’t Be Avoided. But You CAN Cope.
The DNS outage heavily reported on Twitter this afternoon is another reminder of the fragility of the Internet. The Internet is undoubtedly the 8th wonder of the world. It is probably one of the largest, most globally collaborative, man-made entities that has ever been built. Composed of so many moving parts, it’s amazing that it [...]
An Indian Wedding and DNS-based Cloud Load Balancing
What can an experience in organizing an Indian wedding teach you about the benefits of a DNS-based cloud load balancer? Plenty, I’d say. Being able to direct traffic to the most optimal resources, in real-time, as user requests come in, is a skill that comes in handy when you are in charge of a wedding. [...]
