/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/nick-marden/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/12/dnssec-vs-elastic-load-balancers-the-zone-apex-problem/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:00:09 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/12/dnssec-vs-elastic-load-balancers-the-zone-apex-problem/ This is the final post in the 5-part series, The Right Tools for the Job: Re-Hosting DigitalGov Search to a Dynamic Infrastructure Environment. Federal websites are required to implement DNSSEC, which relies on knowing exactly what server is responding to a request. In Amazon Web Services (AWS), the problem of unreliable servers is solved by /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/06/a-domain-by-any-other-name-cnames-wildcard-records-and-another-level-of-indirection/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:00:05 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/06/a-domain-by-any-other-name-cnames-wildcard-records-and-another-level-of-indirection/ This is post 3 in the 5-part series The Right Tools for the Job: Re-Hosting DigitalGov Search to a Dynamic Infrastructure Environment. “All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except of course for the problem of too many indirections.” – David Wheeler The simplest of our four requirements was /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/02/quality-speed-and-lower-costs-yes-you-can-have-it-all/ Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:00:42 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/02/quality-speed-and-lower-costs-yes-you-can-have-it-all/ This is post 2 in the 5-part series The Right Tools for the Job: Re-Hosting DigitalGov Search to a Dynamic Infrastructure Environment. The last major infrastructure upgrade that DigitalGov Search had was in 2010. Not only has technology evolved significantly since then, but so have business models for right-sizing costs. Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS)