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Python Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

The following guest post addresses how to improve your services’s performance with Sentry and other application profilers for Python. Check out this post to learn more about application profiling and Sentry’s upcoming mobile application profiling offering. We’re making intentional investments in performance monitoring to make sure we give you all the context to help you solve what’s urgent faster.

Unity Exception Handling: A Beginner's Guide

Exceptions are the outcomes you do not usually expect in your application. But as a developer, expecting the unexpected is essential to capture exceptions and handle them appropriately. Exception handling is not only applicable to web development projects but also to Unity applications. This article brings everything you need to know as a beginner to Unity exception handling, including methods to handle exceptions, when to use them, and how to manage exceptions easier using distributed logging.

UC Today Deep Dive: Why Microsoft Teams Performance is Critical

UC Today, the leading online publication for Unified Communications and Collaboration technology, recently did a deep dive on Martello’s Microsoft-recommended Vantage DX solution for monitoring Microsoft Teams and found out that delivering exceptional user experiences and avoiding a Microsoft Teams outage can be easy with the right solution in place.

The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering

Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: I described the second category as “operations engineering minus the infrastructure,” dedicated to evaluating and assembling a production stack of third-party platform providers, enabling software engineers to self-serve their services and own their own code in production. I said: That second category I was describing now has a name. We call those teams "platform engineering.".

Driving Efficiency with Custom APM Dashboards

Have you ever struggled to have efficient visibility into your APM and log data? Have you ever been called on to display real-time data to your Sales or Marketing department, only to find yourself fumbling over the numbers without a way to display relevant data? Look no further! Retrace collects huge amounts of data about your application’s health and performance, then provides a customizable display in one place – your customizable APM Dashboards.

InfluxDB is Once Again a Leader in G2's Fall 2022 Reports

G2 has released their Fall 2022 reports, and we are thrilled to share that InfluxDB – the purpose- built time series platform, has once again ranked #1 in the G2 Grid for Time Series Databases. InfluxDB has also held its leading position in the Momentum Grid for Time Series Databases. The Momentum Grid® identifies products that are on a high growth trajectory based on user satisfaction scores, employee growth, and digital presence.

Create Alerts on Cloud Monitoring

Are you interested to know about alerts in Cloud Monitoring? Would you like to know how to create metric based alerts for Google cloud products through cloud monitoring? In this video we introduce you to Alerts in Cloud Monitoring, how it works, the different types of alerting policies. Watch this video to learn how to create metric based alerts for Google cloud products.

GripMatix releases new SCOM MP for Citrix DaaS

We are happy to announce that we have released a brand-new SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Citrix Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Citrix DaaS is a Citrix Cloud service that allows you to securely deliver virtual apps and desktops from on-premise data centers and public cloud platforms in a hybrid deployment.

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka

Processing, storing, and sending data is at the heart of how we communicate and get business done. This involves implementing various applications, software, and mobile devices that together form an intricate web to process data and information. Programmers will often use message brokers to facilitate this constant flow of information. Message brokers and Pub/Sub messaging systems are instrumental in allowing applications, services, and systems to communicate effectively.