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Life beyond Xamarin - the future of mobile development

In the latest Founder & Friends episode, Raygun CEO John-Daniel Trask (JD) sat down with Matthew Richardson, the Director at Velocity Engineering Systems, to discuss the future of cross-platform mobile development. This article summarizes their key insights for software developers considering a move away from Xamarin. The discussion covers four main alternatives: We’ll explore the pros and cons of each option, focusing on.

Spans - a key concept of distributed tracing

Spans are fundamental building blocks of distributed tracing. A single trace in distributed tracing consists of a series of tagged time intervals known as spans. Spans represent a logical unit of work in completing a user request or transaction. Distributed tracing is critical to application performance monitoring in microservice-based architecture. Before we deep dive into spans, let's have a brief overview of distributed tracing.

From Cloud Adoption to Reversal: Navigating the Hybrid Cloud Advantages Adventure

In the ever-evolving world of IT infrastructure, there’s one question that often ignites passionate debates within IT teams: ‘What’s the golden ticket for our business?’. Hybrid cloud solutions are like stumbling upon hidden treasure in the vast IT landscape. But diving into them isn’t a leisurely stroll—it’s a thrilling adventure, complete with unexpected twists and turns. Each new step reveals new complexities, unraveling the quest for seamless integration.

Xamarin alternatives for cross-platform mobile development

Xamarin is now officially sunset, leaving many developers seeking other options for cross-platform mobile development. If you’re one of them, don’t panic. While Microsoft themselves have shifted towards.NET MAUI, it’s not the only option – there are several robust frameworks that can match Xamarin’s capabilities, and even introduce exciting new features and efficiencies. Let’s look at some leading alternatives to keep your mobile projects thriving.

Break Free from APM's Shackles: Unlock True Resilience with Catchpoint IPM

Are traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools holding you back? Discover how Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) can transform your approach to digital experience monitoring and unlock true resilience. In this video, we delve into the limitations of APM and how IPM addresses these challenges by providing comprehensive visibility across the entire Internet stack, from backend infrastructure to end-user experience.

Datadog Conversations: How Life360 Keeps Families Safe with Observability

Life360 is a family safety app driven by the mission to protect and connect people, pets, and things. Naveen Puvvula, Director of Cloud Operations, and Jesse Gonzalez, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, discuss why observability is critical to achieving reliability and how they continue to deliver real-time location updates for their users even during high-traffic events. Finally, they share their advice for other tech leaders in the industry to choose partners that align closely to solve problems together and technologies that reduce friction and improve developer joy.

Choosing an OpenTelemetry backend - Things To Keep In Mind

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) incubating project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). However, OpenTelemetry does not provide storage and visualization for the collected telemetry data. And that’s where an OpenTelemetry backend is needed. Cloud computing and containerization made deploying and scaling applications easier.

Configure your Docker Syslog Logging Driver

Logs are useful for troubleshooting and identifying issues in applications, as they provide a record of events and activities. However, managing log data can be challenging due to the large volume of log events generated by modern applications, as well as the need to balance the level of detail in the logs and the impact on the application's performance.

How eG Enterprise solves uncertainty and challenges in the world of hypervisors and virtualization migration

In a recent blog article, we covered how the license changes for VMware virtualization may impact many of our partners and customers and are driving uncertainty in the market and causing many to consider their virtualization migration strategy, see Will Broadcom’s plans for VMware affect you? | eG Innovations.

Kubernetes Monitoring - What to Monitor, Tools and Best Practices

Kubernetes has since emerged as “THE” container orchestration platform for deploying and managing containerized workloads as a result of its robust capabilities. However, the complexity of its architecture and its dynamic nature present significant challenges in monitoring deployed workloads and the platform itself. Kubernetes monitoring is crucial for maintaining the health, performance, and reliability of containerized applications.

Centralized Logging with Open Source Tools - OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

Modern-day software systems emit millions of log lines per minute. Cloud computing and containerization have made it easy to have distributed systems. Distributed systems emit logs from multiple sources. While developers have always used logs to debug stand-alone applications, centralized logging solves the challenges of modern-day distributed software systems.

Kubernetes Logging | Set Up K8s Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration tool for managing containers, but it comes with its own set of challenges. One of the biggest hurdles is effectively logging what's happening in your system. As your applications grow and spread across clusters, keeping track of their behavior becomes crucial. In this article, we will discuss logging in Kubernetes, common Kubernetes log types, and how logs can be effectively tracked and managed.

Latest Top 11 Observability Tools in Spotlight - 2024's Guide

In microservices architecture, observability tools enable you to create central dashboards to gauge the health of your distributed systems. New age observability tools have shifted to providing quick workflows to debug application issues. In this post we will explore top 11 observability tools that you can consider to use for your software systems. In today's digital economy, distributed architectures have become the norm.

Kubectl Top Pod/Node | How to get & read resource utilization metrics of K8s?

Kubectl Top command can be used to retrieve snapshots of resource utilization of pods or nodes in your Kubernetes cluster. Resource utilization is an important thing to monitor for Kubernetes cluster owners. In order to monitor resource utilization, you can keep track of things like CPU, memory, and storage. In this article, we will see how to use kubectl Top command to get and read metrics about pods and nodes. We will also breakdown the output to understand what it means.

Kubectl Logs Tail | How to Tail Kubernetes Logs

The kubectl logs tail command is a tool that allows users to stream the logs of a pod in real-time while using Kubernetes. This command is particularly useful for debugging and monitoring applications, as it enables users to view log output as it is generated and quickly identify any issues or problems with their application. In this article, we will see how to use the kubectl logs tail command to stream logs, the benefits of using the command, and an advanced tool for streaming logs.

MAUI provider upgrades v2: Real User Monitoring + Crash Reporting

I’ve written previously about the process of adding Real User Monitoring capabilities to our MAUI provider. I’m excited to say that this work is now live, batteries and all, plus some more improvements since the last blog. To recap the state of cross-platform development in the.NET ecosystem, Xamarin is out of support as of May 1st! This is replaced by.NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), meaning developers need appropriate tools when they make the switch.

Crossed 10 Million Docker Downloads, Improved Dashboards UX with New Panel Types & OSS Summit - SigNal 36

Welcome to SigNal 36, the 36th edition of our monthly product newsletter! We crossed 10 Million Docker downloads for our open source project. We’ve enhanced our Dashboards UX and incorporated feedback from users in different areas of our product. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in the month of April 2024.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Frameworks and static site generators

In 2024, JavaScript is bigger than ever. The ecosystem is just as huge, and almost impossible to keep track of - so I've had a go at picking out 2024's most essential JS tools for you. In part 1 of this series, we reviewed runtimes and package managers, the foundational building blocks of your software project. So in part 2, we're analyzing the tools which form the walls and roof that give your software project its structure: frameworks and static site generators. For this installment of JS Toolbox 2024, we explore various frameworks & generators available in the JavaScript & TypeScript ecosystem, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases.