Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Should you build or buy a crash reporter?

You’re in the process of creating and launching new softwareand you want it to be as stable as possible. Or, maybe your software has been running for a while, but you’re frustrated with the bug-reporting workflow in place. Either way it’s time to look for a crash reporting process that fits your application. This leads to a natural question: Should we build it? Or should we buy it?

Mono-Repo vs One-Per-Service

With AWS Lambda, we can deploy and scale individual functions. However, we as engineers still like to think in terms of services and maintain a mapping between business capabilities and service boundaries. The service level abstraction makes it easier for us to reason about large systems. As such, cohesive functions that work together to serve a business feature are grouped together and deployed as a unit (i.e. a service) through CloudFormation.

Office 365 Outage Report & End User Monitoring

Experts Live is one of the largest community conferences with a focus on a broad range of Microsoft technologies including Azure, Office 365, Intune, System Center, Automation, Virtualization (Azure Stack, Docker), and Enterprise Mobility + Security, just to name a few. Top experts from around the world present discussion panels, ask-the-experts sessions and breakout sessions, and cover the latest products, technologies and solutions.

Monitor IBM MQ metrics and logs with Datadog

IBM MQ is enterprise-grade message-oriented middleware (MOM). Previously known as MQSeries and renamed to WebSphere MQ, IBM MQ is known for its stability and reliability. Companies in industries ranging from financial services to retail to aviation use it as an integral part of their backend infrastructure. Datadog’s new IBM MQ integration enables users to collect key metrics and logs from their IBM MQ instances and visualize them with a customizable out-of-the-box dashboard.

NiCE VMware Managemet Pack 5.0 Release Webinar

Health and performance monitoring for your business critical VMware environments is key. The NiCE VMware Management Pack helps you taming highly dynamical virtualized environments. Even overcoming the specter of service outages has become viable. Learn how to leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Java Garbage Collection Logging with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

Java programs running on JVM create objects on the heap. At some stage, these objects are no longer used and can pile up as “garbage” needlessly taking up memory. Replacing the manual process of explicitly allocating and freeing memory, the Java Garbage Collection process was designed to take care of this problem automatically.

Website Speed Improvements That Increase Ecommerce Conversions

It’s no secret that shoppers want a site that loads fast. Ecommerce websites have to balance looking good and working well to provide the best possible user experience. From product descriptions to user registrations to shopping carts, it can be overwhelming to figure out where to focus your site optimization efforts. Increasing your site’s loading time can double your conversions.