I have a coffee mug on my desk that I got from a sales manager many years ago. It’s now filled with pens (I don’t drink coffee), but I take a look at it once in a while. I was starting to think about IT transformation again and noticed a picture of my daughter and an expired AAA card (I might have been thinking AARP) as I looked at that old mug… it reminded me I’m not getting any younger. But it also reminded me of a paradox of culture change.

Raygun is proud to deliver tools that help software teams discover software performance problems before they affect end-users. Last year was no exception. From improved language support to better performance, we released a host of new features designed to help you provide better digital customer experiences. Read on to see how our favorite features from 2019 will benefit you in 2020 and beyond.

In the era of millennials and Gen Z, there's an app for everything. In fact, Apple trademarked the sentence, "There's an app for that," nearly 10 years ago. Today, with more than 2.47 million apps available across the App Store and Google Play Store, they're not only a convenient and affordable means to access a service; they have become extensions and expressions of ourselves and our personalities.

Constant changes happen in today’s digital world. New versions of applications, databases, middleware, and virtualization technologies are being released regularly – at least once every 6-12 months. Patches and upgrades to operating systems and changes to anti-virus software are being released in weekly cycles rather than months. As DevOps gets adopted on a broader scale, changes to applications will be even more frequent.

CRI-O is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project. According to their website, “CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes CRI (Container Runtime Interface) to enable using OCI (Open Container Initiative) compatible runtimes. It is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as the runtime for Kubernetes (K8s).” CRI-O allows K8s to use any OCI-compliant runtime for running pods. CRI-O has support for OCI container images and is able to pull from any container registry.

As a software developer, you might not be used to thinking about the memory usage of your applications. In today’s development world, memory is plentiful and usually quite fast. Odds are, the programming language you use doesn’t require you to allocate your own memory, or free it when you’re done. That doesn’t mean that you’re in the clear when it comes to memory leaks though. The reality is that memory leaks can strike any application in any language.

When Alaska Airlines deployed AppDynamics, outages were reduced by 60% and mean time to resolution (MTTR) went from hours to less than 10 minutes.