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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

Monolithic Application Performance Monitoring

A monolithic architecture is one of the oldest architectures used for making software and applications for various companies. In layman's terms, Monolith means everything in a single box. Monolithic software is supposed to be self-contained, and its components are interrelated and interdependent. When it comes to monoliths, updating a single component or rolling out a new feature is difficult. Suppose any program component needs an update.

Monitoring Application Response Times

The world is going digital with lightning speed. According to this report by Statista, at the beginning of January 2021, there were 4.66 billion active internet users in the world, which accounts for 59.5 percent of the world's population, and out of this 4.66 billion, around 4.32 billion (92.6%) users have accessed the internet by mobile. All companies regardless of the sector in which they operate, want to use the internet for expanding their business.

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Strategies to avoid downtime and maintain business continuity

In March 2019, Facebook experienced a 14-hour outage that cost the company $90 million. In July 2018, Amazon lost up to $99 million on Prime Day after experiencing downtime. While these critical financial crises greatly impacted these industry leaders, both companies were able to recover from them eventually; however, many smaller organizations may not have the means to overcome a similar incident. As per Gartner, downtime costs on average $ 5,600 per minute; since IT operations vary from business to business, downtime could cost $140,000 per hour on the lower end or $540,000 per hour on the higher end.

Implementing distributed tracing in a nodejs application

In this article, we will implement distributed tracing for a nodejs application based on microservices architecture. To implement distributed tracing, we will be using open-source solutions - SigNoz and OpenTelemetry, so you can easily follow the tutorial. In modern microservices-based applications, it is difficult to understand how requests are performing across multiple services, infrastructure, and protocols.

Top B2B & B2C UX Design Examples

33% of consumers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience. And almost 80% of American consumers say that convenience and speed are among the most important factors to a good customer experience (according to PwC). So yes, good UX design can make or break your business’ product and customer relationships. Hence, products are more people-focused than ever before.

APM vs. Logging: Do I Need Both?

The final stage of the popular Software Development Lifecycle after planning, analysis, design, and implementation is maintenance. This is where a full-fledged application running in production is constantly looked after and taken care of. Bugs, bottlenecks, slow database queries, security loopholes, and other issues are discovered and fixed before deploying the updated code. Log records and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools play a crucial role in software development maintenance.

The Complete UX Audit Checklist 2022: for CIOs and Self Auditors

It’s essential to perform a UX Audit on your website from time to time. It helps improve the quality of your site by reviewing its strengths and weaknesses. Chief Information Officers often carry out this job. However you can perform the UX Audit yourself if the company is small. Either way, you’re going to need a complete UX Audit Checklist that makes sure you get the most valuable insights from your audit.

End-to-End Application Performance Monitoring

In this blog, I’ll cover a real-world example of application performance troubleshooting a Java web app, hosted on JBoss Wildfly using Microsoft SQL as the backend database, including details of the analysis and diagnosis we had to perform in order to identify the root-cause of, and resolve, the performance issue.