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Articles by Nico Cartron
Nico Cartron is Principal Product Manager, DNS/DNSLB, for F5 Distributed Cloud Services, helping customers with their journey to multi-cloud and containerization. Previously, Nico held several presales engineer positions related to DNS, first at EfficientIP where he started as employee #8, winning significant deals in the Telco and Industry verticals, and eventually led a team of presales spread across the globe. More recently, Nico was Solutions Engineer at PowerDNS/Open-Xchange, where he brought his expertise to carrier customers looking to secure their DNS services. Nico has a bachelor's degree from Epitech, France.
DNS (Domain Name System) may be a familiar term to most people, but DNS Load Balancing, also known as GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing), probably is not. In a nutshell, it is a more intelligent version of DNS, enabling the steering of traffic based on applications’ health and client source IP addresses.
The DNS (Domain Name System) is one of the most important protocols on the Internet — it’s often referred to as “the phonebook of the Internet” (although most DNS experts despise this description).
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