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Real-World Tips and Tricks to Tune Apache Tomcat for High Performance

Apache Tomcat, developed by the Apache Software Foundation, is an open source Java servlet container that also functions as a web server. While over 10,000 websites rely on Tomcat as a web server, a Plumbr of Java application servers showed that over 60% of websites that use Java technology relied on Apache Tomcat to host the business logic. Production environments must be high performing.

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Monitoring .NET Core - Raygun's multithreaded trace capability explained

Raygun's CTO Jeremy Norman chats with Alex Williams of The New Stack to give a technical demo of the multithreaded trace feature in Raygun APM. Jeremy offers practical examples of how traces work, how you can monitor microservices more accurately, and why Raygun is different from other APM tools.

Why actionable data is worth its weight in gold and more from our Tech Leaders' Tour

Monitoring today is more complex and nebulous than ever before. Teams have to deal with barriers like tooling, data overwhelm, and process problems making it difficult to get a clear line of communication from code to customer. In our Portland Tech Leaders’ event, our seasoned host Scott Hanselman, Partner Program Manager at Microsoft, takes us on a deep dive into how our experienced panel use tools, processes, and agile workflows to overcome these hurdles to create world-class software.

Measuring the unmeasurable - How AWS, Alexa, Tableau Software and Raygun monitor what matters

“3.7%. That’s how penetrated the cloud market is today. We’re talking a trillion-dollar market only penetrated by 3.7%. The world is up for grabs.” “Customers are not going to want technology to be slower. They’re not going to want it less performant or less secure.

Raygun APM: Our commitment to performance

Ever since the public release of Raygun APM for .NET, we’ve been busy at work to make this the best APM product on the market that provides meaningful data to developers, making debugging and troubleshooting much easier. Every APM product out there will incur some level of performance penalty since you cannot observe a process at zero cost.

What is Application Performance Management? A Beginners Guide to APM

Application Performance Management (APM) refers to monitoring or managing the performance of your code, application dependencies, transaction times, & overall user experiences. APM generally comprises of measuring multiple metrics related to the application performance, service maps, real time user transactions etc. The purpose of APM is to turn a black box product into something that is more transparent by providing intelligent insights into its performance metrics.