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How a software product feels is easy to overlook, but how the product works matters just as much, if not more. Results from digital experience monitoring point to how apps feel as the key determinant of their success. “That’s how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.” This famous line from The Matrix Reloaded (2003) resonates with the way many developers approach maintaining apps. Someone has to keep watch.

According to Dr. Stephen Hawking and the conservation of quantum information theory, information can neither be created nor destroyed… unless you work in IT. OK, he didn’t really say the part about IT; I did. In the physical world, information is constantly generated, curated, and consumed—from emails to cat videos to this blog post. Not to mention error messages, system logs, and alert emails you never read.

Hosting your application on DigitalOcean is an easy way for teams to deploy and scale applications without worrying about the details of the infrastructure. But what happens when your application starts causing bottlenecks and you need to track down the root cause? In this article, we’ll look at how SolarWinds® AppOptics™ works together with DigitalOcean to help you identify and fix performance issues with your application.

As we look to improve the quality and capabilities of the JFrog DevOps Platform, especially in the world of DevSecOps, we have added powerful new features to further enhance the award-winning JFrog Xray. The capabilities detailed below cement Xray’s position as a universal software composition analysis (SCA) solution trusted by developers and DevSecOps teams globally to quickly and continuously identify open source software vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.

In this, our competent blog, we boast of always giving you good advice and providing you with the technological information necessary for your life as a technologist to make sense. Today it is the case again, we will not reveal the hidden secret about the omnipotence of Control/Alt/Delete, but almost. Today in Pandora FMS blog, we give you a few tips for safe password management.

Lambda not logging to CloudWatch? It’s actually one of the most common issues that come up. Let’s briefly go over why this problem needs to be solved. CloudWatch is the central logging and monitoring service of the AWS cloud platform. It gives you insights into all the AWS services. Even if you can’t deploy and test serverless systems locally, CloudWatch tells you what’s happening to them.

Every career has defining moments. Most are spread out over years or even decades, but the cybersecurity world has had two career-defining moments just in the past year. It started with the global shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overnight, many organizations were forced to support employees working remotely. CISOs, like me, were expected to keep both our company and its employees safe in a completely unpredictable world.

Bottlenecks and performance issues are the bane of network engineers everywhere. They can be hard to nail down, have a variety of different potential root causes, and give people an excuse to “blame the network”. Understanding network backplanes, backplane throughput, and concepts like blocking vs non-blocking switches, can help you better understand network design and troubleshoot bottlenecks when they come up.

COVID-19 accelerated many of the changes that were happening at work pre-pandemic, setting off a spike in innovation as companies developed new workflows to address these changes. According to ServiceNow’s 2021 Employee Experience Imperative Study that surveyed 3,000 employees at large enterprise companies in North America and Europe, 62% of employees believe COVID-19 will have a significant impact on their work experience for years to come.

First Contentful Paint, or FCP, measures the time take to render the first element of a webpage. It’s a modern, user-centric measurement of how fast users see a response from your website. Here’s everything you need to know about the metric and how to use it. FCP is one of the Core Web Vital performance metrics that measure user’s perceived performance of websites. These metrics are incredibly important to delivering fast user experiences, and avoiding SEO performance penalties.