“With Docker, developers can build any app in any language using any toolchain. “Dockerized” apps are completely portable and can run anywhere - colleagues’ OS X and Windows laptops, QA servers running Ubuntu in the cloud, and production data center VMs running Red Hat.
Gfycat is excited to announce our new integration with Mattermost that brings GIFs to workplace communication. Gfycat makes the Mattermost communication experience fun, visual and on-trend.
Secure Shell (SSH), is a network protocol that gives administrators secure access to remote computers. It also refers to the suite of utilities that implement the protocol. A SSH check looks at the availability of your SSH services to see if the service is accepting connections.
It’s good to be back from our short holiday break. This week we have articles on the world’s fastest internet (with a shout out to Prometheus and Grafana), visualizing real-time and historic weather data, making teams more autonomous, and Grafana + Prometheus + Postgres + TimescaleDB.
Business iQ helps enterprises correlate application performance with critical business metrics in real-time. In addition to providing end-to-end visibility into multi-step complex business workflows, customers can now leverage out-of-the-box dashboards and metrics with no manual configuration required.
Announcing the following new integrations: Microsoft Active Directory, Statusy
Request tracing is the ultimate insight tool. Request tracing tracks operations inside and across different systems. Practically speaking, this allows engineers to see the how long an operation took in a web server, database, application code, or entirely different systems, all presented along a timeline. Request tracing is especially valuable in distributed systems where a single transaction (such as “create an account”) spans multiple systems.
Most scientific papers are unlikely to change your day-to-day approach as a Rails web developer. How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE’18 is the exception to that rule. This study examined 12 popular, mature, opensource Rails apps for ActiveRecord performance anti-patterns. And boy, did they find some issues.
You’ve delivered your product, application, or website. You’re seeing some traffic and even some conversions. But something is holding you back. Could it be speed? In today’s world of limited patience and shortened attention spans, you have to make sure that you’re giving your customers the enjoyable experience they need to stick around.
In our previous article (How to Scale and Manage Millions of Metrics), we looked at correlations in terms of name similarity, but there are other types of similarities that occur between metrics.
