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The Importance of Time Synchronization in Windows Authentication

May 18, 2026 By Babu Sundaram In eG Innovations
Kerberos is a secure network authentication protocol that allows users and systems to prove their identity over a network without sending passwords in plain text. It is widely used in enterprise environments (for example, in Windows domains) to enable single sign-on (SSO). At its core, Kerberos uses a trusted authority called the Key Distribution Center (KDC) to issue encrypted “tickets” that verify identity.
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Best APM for Small Development Teams in 2026

May 14, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Last updated: May 2026 If your team is 2 to 20 developers and you do not have dedicated DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, most APM tools were not built for you. They were built for the team that has you: a team with specialists who can tune dashboards, configure alerting pipelines, manage data retention policies, and explain the monitoring system to everyone else. You do not have that team. You have developers who also handle deploys, on-call, and debugging production issues between writing features.
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What Is APM? A Guide to Application Performance Monitoring

May 13, 2026 By Coralogix Team In Coralogix
A well-instrumented service tells your on-call engineer which deploy broke checkout, which span ate the latency budget, and which line to revert before the support queue fills up. Getting there depends on how cleanly your application performance monitoring layer turns telemetry into answers. The sections ahead walk through how APM works, the metrics and components worth tracking, the cloud-native challenges at scale, and how to evaluate APM tooling against your real workload.
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The SDLC: phases, popular models, benefits & more

May 12, 2026 By Dave Swersky In Raygun
The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) describes the process we follow to deliver software to customers. It captures each step of creating software, from ideation to delivery and eventually to maintenance. In this post, we've broken down everything you need to understand the SDLC.
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Best Elixir APM Tools in 2026: A Developer's Guide

May 11, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Last updated: May 2026 Elixir applications have performance characteristics that are genuinely different from Ruby or Python. The BEAM virtual machine handles concurrency through lightweight processes, supervision trees restart failed processes automatically, and Phoenix channels can hold tens of thousands of persistent connections on a single node. These are strengths, but they also mean that the performance problems you encounter are different from what most APM tools were built to detect.
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Observability and Security for the AI Era

May 7, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Datadog has always been driven by a broader vision of helping teams understand and operate complex systems. In this session, you’ll hear from Michael Whetten, Product SVP, and Abrar Hussain, Senior Director, Product Management, as they share the latest updates across the Datadog product suite and discuss how that vision continues to shape the platform’s evolution and support the next generation of AI-driven applications.
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How to Measure your Most Expensive Milliseconds

May 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
In the fast-paced world of mobile development, reliability rarely fails with a loud crash; instead, it degrades quietly through micro-regressions that erode user trust and engagement. While most companies track backend health and API latency, they often fly blind regarding the actual screen-level responsiveness that defines the true user experience. When Expedia Group underwent a major technical evolution, the team realized they lacked a consistent baseline to compare performance across platforms, leaving them unable to validate improvements before rollout.
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OpenTelemetry VM Setup Guide: SigNoz Collection Agents Explained

May 4, 2026 By SigNoz - Open Source Observability Platform In SigNoz
About This Video: If you're working with OpenTelemetry, managing collector configurations across environments like VMs can quickly become difficult. In this video, we focus on VM-based setups and walk through how to configure SigNoz Collection Agents step by step. We start with an introduction to VM collection agents, then move into a practical project walkthrough using the OpenTelemetry demo. From there, we explore the documentation, set up configurations, run the collector, and finally validate everything inside SigNoz.
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What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

Apr 21, 2026 By Jack Rothrock In Scout
A modern web application is not a single thing. A single user request may touch a web server, a database, a cache layer, and several third-party APIs before a response comes back. And as AI tools generate more and more application traffic (API calls, background jobs, automated workflows), the volume and unpredictability of that traffic is growing. When something goes wrong, it could be any of it. When something is slow, it could be all of it at once.
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How to Set Up Raygun's Remote MCP Server in Cursor and Codex

Apr 15, 2026 By Reilly Oldham In Raygun
After introducing Raygun's original MCP server and our new remote-first version, the most common question we hear is: "How do I actually set this up and start using it?" This guide covers exactly that, two short videos walking through setup and a real error being solved in both Cursor and Codex.
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