Why DNS Is Critical for Modern Application Deployments In a previous blog, I explained how application outages can impact customer confidence and bring your business to a standstill. In today’s marketplace, failing to adapt and deliver new services to the market quickly can be just as harmful. With the rise of DevOps and improvements to the tooling that supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), companies can improve their ability to deploy and ship code with excellent results. But in rolling out new updates, they still want to mitigate their risk of a bad deployment, minimizing the chance of downtime for their customers. This blog post explores different deployment strategies DevOps and NetOps teams can use to seamlessly and safely deploy updates to production, and explains how DNS can work with specific deployment models. Blue-Green Deployments Blue-green deployments are a [ more… ]