# An Introduction to DNS Traffic Management

DevFeed: [An Introduction to DNS Traffic Management](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/an-introduction-to-dns-traffic-management-1457.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/introduction-dns-traffic-management>)

Author: Raphaël Beamonte

Published: 2020-08-05T14:48:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [Unix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/unix.md>)

Tags: [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [dns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dns.md>), [history](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/history.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [overview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/overview.md>), [tcp-ip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tcp-ip.md>)

## AI overview

An introduction to DNS traffic management, explaining its role in distributed-system resilience and outlining the history and purpose of the Domain Name System.

## Source excerpt

Distributed systems are only as resilient as we build them to be. Domain Name System (DNS) traffic management is a well-used approach to do so. In this first part of a two-part series, we aim to give a broad overview of DNS and how it's used for traffic management, as well as the different reasons why we want to use DNS traffic management.