Big features make headlines, but they can be a challenge to deploy without staying dedicated to the finish line. Even the best laid projects can fall victim to time creep as more features are added and the idea gets refined. What’s on paper looks great!
When cloud adoption shifts from a new trend to daily reality, it causes headaches to everyone responsible for the performance, availability, and security of business services or apps. How do you monitor owned and rented infrastructure with all of their differences without creating visibility silos and ending-up with a bunch of disparate tools?
Synthetic monitoring has been a staple of performance testing for years now and it’s probably going to stay that way for quite some time. Also called proactive monitoring, this relatively simple way of keeping track of the performance of your website, and is your safest bet to ensure you can rise to your visitors’ expectations.
There’s a lot of talk about serverless computing lately, especially with the big tech giants investing in the idea and offering exclusive products built on it. But is it just a buzzword, or does it have the potential to become the next big thing in technology? Cloud computing was once a buzzword, too, one may argue. But that buzzword ended up revolutionizing the whole industry, with 90 percent of companies now using cloud hosting.
With the second wave of coronavirus sweeping across the nation, experts predict a greater percentage of this year’s holiday shopping to be conducted online than ever before. In fact, a recent National Retail Federation Holiday 2020 survey predicts that “digital purchases will be the primary driver of growth this year” with 96% of respondents expecting more online-only holiday sales as consumers are less likely to visit actual stores.
