DNS Series Glossary — The Terms That Keep Showing Up
A practical glossary for the DNS Evolution in Practice series: core DNS records, service discovery terms, traffic management concepts, and DNS security vocabulary.
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DNS — The Internet's Quiet Backbone: A Series Introduction Series Recap
Why I'm writing a four-part DNS series in 2026. Notes from 25 years of teaching the topic that most engineers — and most curricula — quietly underestimate.
DNS, Part 2 — DNS at Scale: Service Discovery with Consul and CoreDNS Part 2
How ephemeral cloud-native workloads broke traditional DNS, and how Consul and CoreDNS rebuilt it as a real-time service catalog.
DNS, Part 1 — From /etc/hosts to BIND-9: The Origin Story Every SRE Should Know Part 1
A practitioner's tour of DNS — from the hosts file era and BIND at Berkeley to CoreDNS in Kubernetes — and the record types every engineer should actually understand.