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The Ultimate Crash Course on Microservices: The 5 Key Questions and Answers to Know in 2022

Over the past decade, organizations have reinvented themselves through digital transformation. Nowadays, this journey is well in its second chapter and gaining momentum – also driven by the explosion of app and service deployment, data and intelligence, digital reach, and post-pandemic customer expectations. And the newest cutting-edge technological trends – such as hybrid infrastructure and edge computing – are making it particularly difficult for traditional tools to keep up.

Choosing an OpenTelemetry backend - Things to keep in mind

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) incubating project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). However, OpenTelemetry does not provide storage and visualization for the collected telemetry data. And that’s where an OpenTelemetry backend is needed. Cloud computing and containerization made deploying and scaling applications easier.

Agents of Transformation: Helping IT teams achieve greatness at The University of Texas at San Antonio

With a broad, cross-functional mindset and a boost from AppDynamics, The University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) IT team has morphed from an error-resolving group into an innovation machine. Here's how they did it.

Retrace Power User Tips and Tricks - Extending APM

Retrace is the full lifecycle APM solution that includes tools and capabilities far beyond your typical APM tool. With sophisticated log management, detailed code tracing, deployment tracking and more, Retrace delivers what your DevOps team needs most to resolve issues before impacting users. By extending usability beyond traditional APM functionality, Retrace provides greater value than competitive products. But where would Retrace be without robust APM functionality?

How The Washington Post uses Datadog to detect and respond to traffic spikes early

Stephen Erickson, Director of Engineering at The Washington Post, discusses how Datadog's alerting and unified visibility into their entire architecture are instrumental in managing dynamic traffic cycles caused by breaking news. An early Datadog alert on the day of the Capitol riots notified the team of a spike in traffic so they were able to respond and scale their systems immediately.

APM Vision for Open Source and Security

Earlier this month, we shared exciting news with our first placement in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability: we are in the Visionary Quadrant. This research is near to my heart, as I led this research for four years; so, I wanted to reflect on why this is an accurate placement for Logz.io. The Visionary Quadrant is designated for those organizations who are pushing the boundaries of a specific market and technology.

Ruby - Tracing a Ruby application with OpenTelemetry for performance monitoring

Tracing your application can give the much needed context required to troubleshoot performance issues. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that can help you to set up an observability framework for your cloud-native applications. In this tutorial, we will use SigNoz as our backend analysis tool. SigNoz is a full-stack open-source APM tool that can be used for storing and visualizing the telemetry data collected with OpenTelemetry. It is built natively on OpenTelemetry and works on the OTLP data formats.