
RIPE Atlas Big Data is Back
Paul de Weerd
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul is the manager of the Global Information Infrastructure team at the RIPE NCC. The team is responsible for the public DNS services the NCC offers (K-root, reverse DNS, secondary DNS service for several ccTLDs, etc), for RIS and for the platform that stores the data for RIPE Atlas. More
• 4 min read
The start of 2021 saw RIPE Atlas users encountering delays in data retrieval and an overall drop in the responsiveness of the system. Now that things are back to normal, we thought we’d take a more detailed look at what happened and the steps we’re taking to prevent it from happening again.