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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

Meet Our IT Performance Heroes: Wendy Howard

One of the best parts of our job is enabling you to become the best #ITPerformanceHero that you can be. But behind the scenes, eG Innovations is filled with talented team members who wear their own IT Hero capes, so we want to take some time to introduce you to some of the people who make eG Innovations the leading performance monitoring company on the market.

Meet application SLAs with AppDynamics using VirtualWisdom

Imagine that you are a taxi driver deftly navigating busy city streets to get your passenger to the airport on time and to prove that taxis remain relevant in a changing world of Uber and Lyft. If you had a choice of routes would you opt for a well-lit route with excellent visibility versus a route where some of the street lights were out and visibility is a challenge?

How AIOps is transforming customer experience by breaking down DevOps silos at KPN

DevOps means dev fails fast and ops fails never. The challenge is that the volume of data exceeds human ability to analyze it and take action before user experience degrades. In this session, Dutch telecom KPN shares how AIOps from Broadcom is helping connect operational systems and increase automation across their toolchain to breakdown DevOps silos and provide faster feedback loops by preventing problems from getting into production.

Top 7 Tomcat Metrics for Java Performance Monitoring

The Apache Tomcat software is an open-source implementation of the ava Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. Tomcat is often used as a backend application server that connects to other web-facing servers like Apache and Microsoft IIS. Tomcat also includes its own native HTTP connector that allows it to be used as a standalone HTTP server.

Build faster, error-free Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps with Raygun

With 900 billion devices running on Windows 10, the future is bright for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP’s strength lies in its ability to adapt itself completely to the native user interface - whether that’s a computer, tablet, Xbox or IoT device. It’s a win-win; users get a consistent experience as they consume across devices, while developers get easier deployments.

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.

APM For Serverless

Datadog announced a beta for native Datadog APM in serverless environments, starting with AWS Lambda. When running applications in a managed environment, it's especially important to be able to track down the sources of slowdowns and bottlenecks. Datadog APM for serverless means you'll always have your finger on the pulse of your application health, and your code doesn't need to change as your teams adopt serverless.