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

Parsing logs with the OpenTelemetry Collector

This guide is for anyone who is getting started monitoring their application with OpenTelemetry, and is generating unstructured logs. As is well understood at this point, structured logs are ideal for post-hoc incident analysis and broad-range querying of your data. However, it’s not always feasible to implement highly structured logging at the code level.

Part two: 7 must-know object-oriented software patterns (and their pitfalls)

Dr. Panos Patros, CPEng This is the second and final part in our exploration of must-know OOP patterns, and covers the composite bridge pattern, iterator pattern, and lock design pattern. Find part one here covering extension, singleton, exception shielding and object pool patterns. Object-oriented design is a fundamental part of modern software engineering that all developers need to understand.

Top Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Explained with Use Cases

Microsoft Azure is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A wide spectrum of organizations across all verticals use Azure – to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. Tight integrations with the Microsoft ecosystem and product portfolio make Azure highly attractive to many.

Generative AI and Observability Automation - Sajid Mehmood & Michael Gerstenhaber

One of the biggest challenges in observability is separating the signal from the noise. As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become more powerful and accessible, it has generated a lot of buzz around the role of AI with respect to the performance and reliability of our technical systems and the teams that build and operate them. In this fireside chat, Michael Gertenhaber (Datadog VP of Product) and Sajid Mehmood (Datadog VP of Engineering) will sift through the hype to chat about what generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) will really mean for the future of observability and how it can benefit your teams today.

Optimizing cloud resources and cost with APM metadata in Elastic Observability

Application performance monitoring (APM) is much more than capturing and tracking errors and stack traces. Today’s cloud-based businesses deploy applications across various regions and even cloud providers. So, harnessing the power of metadata provided by the Elastic APM agents becomes more critical. Leveraging the metadata, including crucial information like cloud region, provider, and machine type, allows us to track costs across the application stack.

The Benefits of Using Application Performance Monitoring Software for Website Performance Optimization

Website performance optimization has become critical for businesses in this digital era. If you want to maintain a competitive edge and ensure exceptional user experiences, application performance software is necessary. This indispensable tool empowers businesses to monitor, analyze, and optimize their website and application performance proactively. This article will explore the seven key benefits of implementing APM software for website performance optimization.

Right Size, Right Performance, Right Time

It’s been said that, “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Contrarily, many engineers have also had to work with software riddled with so much technical debt and inefficiency that optimization is practically impossible and a complete rewrite is required. So when is the right time? In this panel session, we’ll talk with engineering leaders and architects about their approach to software optimization, when to do it, and how to design systems that scale and stay performant.

CTO Fireside Chat

Building large scale technical systems is hard, but building and scaling high performing technical organizations is even more difficult. In this session, Datadog Co-founder and CTO Alexis Lê-Quôc will sit down with Prashant Pandey, Head of Engineering at Asana, to discuss their approach to engineering leadership. They’ll share the hard-learned lessons from their long careers to help you cultivate better technical teams, covering topics from staying in tune with new technologies, enabling innovation, shipping modern ML and AI-based features, and scaling teams.

Efficiency and Effectiveness

WIth unlimited money, most technology problems become easy to solve. But how do you design, build, and operate large scale, performant systems without breaking the bank? In this session, Chandru Subramanian (Director of Engineering, Runtime Efficiency at Datadog) and Neil Innes (Sr. Engineering Manager, DevOps at FanDuel) will discuss how they balance efficiency and effectiveness to save money while also meeting key goals.