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While working on an internal DNSimple microservice, I found it difficult to find good documentation on how to test HTTP(S) endpoints written in Go. Most of the times the articles that I found were incomplete and were lacking some type of tests, especially integration tests. Here's how I ended up testing my service. Hopefully by sharing this, you'll be able to save yourself some time developing tes

Engineering Why we ended up not using Rails for our new JSON API When we initially launched our API v1, we knew that it was just the first step towards our vision of an extensive domain management automation API to support our platform for DNS and domain automation. API v1 was designed as a bridge between the original API v0 and a new set of redesigned API. With years of API v1 under the belt, we

Last time we talked about how to reduce the abuse of primitive types, by the extraction of objects to represent concepts in our model domain. But how shall we design these objects? Let's talk about their fundamental properties. Imagine we're building a weather app. We recognized that floats weren't the right fit to express temperatures, because it was odd to ask if "a float is cold". Better to ext

Status Incident Report - DDoS Attack (December 1st, 2014) This past Monday, we experienced a major volumetric DDoS attack which caused significant downtime for our site and the sites of our customers. The attack included sustained traffic of up to 25gb/s and about 50 million packets per second sent to our servers. I am very sorry that this outage happened and had such sustained and wide reaching e

Features Introducing the ALIAS Record - Naked Domain Aliasing that Works! Most of the times DNS does what you expect it to do with little or no fuss (well, ok, sometimes with a little more fuss) but we strive to make DNS as easy as possible at DNSimple. Today I'd like to introduce a new record type that we've added to make pointing to dynamic hosting services a little less painful. This record is