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It’s been only a few days since the Bun 1.0 announcement and it’s taken social media by storm! And rightly so. Bun promises better performance, and Node.js compatibility and comes with batteries included. It comes with a transpiler, bundler, package manager and testing library. You no longer have to install 15 packages before writing a single code line. It creates a standardised set of tools and addresses the fractured nature of the Node.js ecosystem.

The rapid software development process that exists today requires an expanding and complex infrastructure and application components, and the job of operations and development teams is ever growing and multifaceted. Observability, which helps manage and analyze telemetry data, is the key to ensuring the performance and reliability of your applications and infrastructure.

Observability dashboards are powerful tools that enable teams to visualize and monitor the performance, health, and behavior of their applications and infrastructure. However, building observability dashboards is not a straightforward task, and many organizations make common mistakes hindering their ability to gain meaningful insights and respond to issues effectively.

Performance testing plays a critical role in application reliability. It enables developers and engineering teams to catch issues before they reach production or impact the end-user experience. Understanding performance test results and acting on them, however, has always been a challenge. This is due to the visibility gap between the black-box data from performance testing and the internal white-box data of the system being tested.

In our latest announcement, we are thrilled to launch our Internet Resilience Program, previously known as Black Friday Assurance. This program provides on-demand access to a team of expert engineers to help ensure the performance and resilience of websites and applications during crucial events. While it’s evident why eCommerce companies find this program indispensable during peak holiday seasons, shopping events are not the only occasion when IT teams are stretched to the limit.

Want to hear a sad but true fact? 70% of companies overshoot their cloud budgets. Why is that? Although the cloud is a mighty tool for speed, scalability, and innovation, the inability to see costs can lead companies to limit cloud usage, which hampers innovation and puts them at a disadvantage against the competition. Rather than limiting cloud usage, adopting the FinOps approach provides the insights you need to feel confident about your cloud costs.

My favorite technical experience from grad school was all the cool ways we were trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the IBM JVM (now called Eclipse OMR). The majority of such optimizations required an intricate understanding of how CPUs and memories look under the hood. But why is there such an impressive performance gain in padding objects with blank space to the closest multiple of 64 bytes and ensuring they always start at addresses that are exactly divisible with 64?

In this blog post, you will discover how to create and use the Azure Service Bus connection string and learn some of its common associated issues.