This is one of those things they don’t teach you in school. These days, it’s not only time-consuming to build everything from scratch, but also not wise. These days, it’s all about rapid prototyping, continuous integration and “moving fast and breaking things”. There’s no point in implementing a time and date Javascript library, as moment.js already does that job wonderfully.

One of the biggest challenges in a self-provisioned, public cloud environment like Amazon Web Services (AWS) is finding the right balance between resources, performance, and cost. With no initial visibility into usage stats, AWS customers tend to overprovision compute, storage, and database resources to cushion sudden spikes in demand. If users could see resource usage, they'd be able to determine if the numbers provisioned are really in line with the application workload.

Goliath Technologies has been a strong player in the Citrix ecosystem for quite a while now with multiple products such as their Performance Monitor, Application Monitor and Netscaler Monitor. The solutions already had support for VMware vSphere to monitor virtual machines and the physical infrastructure, and since the newest version, the Goliath Performance Monitor also supports VMware Horizon.

We all like fast sites, especially in 2018. But how can we determine if a website is snappy enough? Are there any response time standards that we can refer to? Do search engines prefer fast-loading sites as well? This article will answer those questions.

Icinga Camp Berlin is happening right now, and as promised in my talk about “Dev and ops stories: Integrations++” we are proud to bring you Dashing for Icinga 2 in its v2.0.0 release ?

It has been around 2 years since we changed our looks, so it is right about time to try something fresh! In addition to design changes, we also updated our free tools - Website Availability Test and Website Speed Test. Even though Availability Tool functionality is the same, Website Speed Test tool has been redesigned completely - now we test website speed from 11 different checkpoints around the globe, to give you a good overview of how your website performs far away from your datacenters.

Philadelphia, PA – March 6, 2018 – Today Goliath Technologies announced the release of their new Goliath for VMware Horizon product suite. This innovative product provides a different approach to VMware Horizon monitoring that brings together VMware Horizon session data, end user experience, metrics from the underlying infrastructure, and proactive application availability monitoring into a single product and console.

Automation and efficiency go hand in hand and is something that has been mentioned in IT since the 70’s. Nevertheless, 40 years on, and the majority of companies still have to internalize and embrace automated processes.

We already wrote about monitoring posgresql queries, at the time we thought that we completely understood how PostgreSQL works with various server resources. Working regularly with the statistics of PostgreSQL queries, we noticed some anomalies and decided to dig a bit deeper for better understanding. Through this process, we found that while the behavior of postreSQL is kind of strange at first glance (or at least very peculiar), the clarity of its source code is quite admirable.

Icinga is coming to Berlin for the 3rd time next week, and we are super excited to share the latest developments with you. And of course to meet again with our awesome community and have a couple of G&Ts :) If you can’t make it, our first Icinga Camp New York happens on March 16th the week after!