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Cross Platform Hybrid Mobile App Development Tools

The world of internet is always changing. The term “Internet of Things” has reshaped the way we live now and companies are no exception. Gone are the days of using a single channel for work flow; most of the businesses rely on multiple devices and platforms to stay connected and manage operations. Owing to the ever-evolving needs of the clients, businesses are going mobile which means their market offering are available on the go.

Metrics vs Events: A Conversation About Controlling Volume

If I’m used to metrics, how should I think about events in Honeycomb? This question cuts to the heart of how Honeycomb is different from other vendors in the APM and metrics space who claim to provide tools that help teams achieve observability, and we hear variations on it fairly often.

Symfony Performance Improvements: Tips and Techniques

Perhaps you came upon this post while looking at ways to improve Symfony performance. Or maybe you read our comparison of Laravel and Symfony and want to know more. You could have gotten here because you want to write a performant app from the start. Then again, you could just love reading all of Stackify’s blog posts. And who could blame you? However you got to this post, or whatever goals you may have, I’m here to talk to you about Symfony performance tuning.

JMX monitoring + Java custom metrics.

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to instrument Java code to expose application metrics using JMX monitoring. Following the code examples, you can monitor the availability, health and performance of your Java application. Java 1.5 introduced JMX – Java Management eXtensions – which is a standard way to instrument code in the JRE world.

The Trade Desk: Lessons We Learned Migrating from Homegrown Monitoring to Prometheus

The Trade Desk provides a self-service, cloud-based platform for buyers of online advertising. Since its founding in 2009, TTD has grown into a publicly traded company with more than 900 employees and a market cap of $8.89 billion. The company recently moved from an old monitoring system based on Nagios, Graphite, and a number of homegrown pieces of software, to something more standard, based on Prometheus.

Splunk Cloud vs. Loggly: 2019 Speed Test

The core ability to search through logs quickly and intuitively is the most important feature a log management system brings to the table. Being able to quickly and efficiently search through logs generated by an infrastructure stack allows DevOps professionals to rapidly find and address problems, as well as confirm deployments and configuration changes. Because raw speed has such a direct impact on the usefulness of these products, we will compare to see which performs the best.