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Big news: I can finally stop pointing anyone who asks about Honeycomb’s story for frontend observability to Emily’s blog post from 2017 on “Instrumenting Page Loads with Honeycomb.” (It was a great post, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think any of us knew it would bear such weight for so long.) I am ecstatic to announce that we have released a new whitepaper called “Getting Started With Honeycomb Client-Side Instrumentation for Browser Applications,” wri
This article was originally published in The New Stack. As the technology landscape continues to change at a rapid pace, enterprise companies are in a rush to catch up and modernize their legacy IT and network infrastructure to capture the benefits of newly developed tools and best practices. By adopting modern DevOps techniques, they can reduce their operational costs, increase the reliability of their services and improve the overall speed and agility at which their IT teams are able to move.
Have you found yourself confused by the plans and pricing around website performance monitoring? Are you using the features you’re paying for? Finding the right service involves many moving parts. Very often, that journey begins with a quest to find a simple up or down monitoring tool for external verification. It’s only after you take that first step into the market that you begin to notice additional features and expanded functionality.
I’m very excited to tell you all about the latest Grafana Loki installment, 2.5! A huge amount of work, nearly 500 PRs, has gone into Loki between v2.4 and now. The major themes for this release are improved performance, continuing ease of operations, and more ways to ingest your logs. I usually find myself the most excited about performance improvements, so let’s start there.
Scraping websites built for modern browsers is far more challenging than it was a decade ago. jsoup is a convenient API that makes scraping websites trivial via DOM traversal, CSS Selectors, JQuery-Like methods and more. But it isn’t without its caveat. Every scraping API is a ticking time bomb.
Developers strive to produce efficient code. Many times, developers will add code to their repositories and test it to make sure it works, but they are forgetting one very important step: benchmarking! Benchmarking allows developers to see the performance impact on their code output. If properly integrated into a CI/CD pipeline, it could prevent catastrophic drops in performance before any code is shipped/deployed at all.
