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User Experience (UX) Design: The Definitive Beginner's Guide

The importance of UX design is on the rise. Customer expectations have accelerated in the post-pandemic world. According to PwC, even when people love a company or a product, 17% of US consumers will walk away after just one bad experience. So follow along for the key considerations in this important space.

Store and manage Datadog configurations as code with Performetriks' offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Performetriks is a service provider that specializes in assessing and improving application performance and security for enterprise clients. To streamline these processes, Performetriks offers frameworks for automation, benchmarking, and security testing, as well as tools that evaluate and improve application performance. This includes their Composer tool, an on-prem piece of software that allows teams to more efficiently manage monitoring settings by storing, tracking, and managing them as code.

4 Killer Coralogix Tracing Features

Tracing is often the last thought in any observability strategy. While engineers prioritize logs and metrics, tracing is truly the hallmark of a mature observability platform, but it is also the most difficult to implement. Once tracing is in place, engineers typically discover something else – many tracing solutions aren’t particularly feature-rich.

Full Stack Visibility to Find the Root Cause of Slow

An app that works as expected is great, but if expected means a beachball for 10 seconds before the page loads, that’s… not so great. Customers want it all; an application that is stable and fast… Luckily, Sentry does more than tell you when something is broken in your code, it also tells you what’s slow and how to fix it.

Free Logon Simulator for AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) - Now Available!

I’m excited to be able to announce the availability of the new eG Enterprise Express Logon Simulator for AVD that now provides any AVD administrator with a no-risk, powerful “synthetic” monitoring tool to track logon performance and failures.Slow logon performance has been one of the most challenging user complaints that VDI and digital workspace administrators and support teams have to deal with.

Open Source APM Tools

Application performance monitoring software is a basic need for most tech-related companies in the world. APM software is built by tech companies to help in the performance management of the application. Open Source APM tools are those whose source code is publicly accessible. In fact, for any software which is open source, the source code of the application must be publicly accessible on Github or any other website.

BindPlane OP Build Process - Using Goreleaser

BindPlane OP is written in Go. It is a single http webserver, serving REST, Websocket, and Graphql clients. It includes embedded react applications for serving the user interface. Go provides us with the ability to produce a single binary program that has no external dependencies. The binary is not dynamically linked to external libraries, meaning it is easy to build, deploy, and run on any platform supported by the Go compiler. BindPlane OP officially supports Linux, Windows, and macOS.

July Monthly Product Update - New Resources to Get Started with InfluxDB and Go

We love to write and ship code to help developers bring their ideas and projects to life. That’s why we’re constantly working on improving our product to meet developers wherever they are, to ensure their happiness, and accelerate Time to Awesome. This is the third in a blog series covering our product’s latest features — features that we think will save you time and effort when building with time series and InfluxDB.

AppSignal for Ruby Gem 3.1: MRI VM Magic Dashboard

We're very excited to release AppSignal for Ruby gem 3.1, which adds a Magic Dashboard for MRI VM stats. By upgrading to the latest Ruby gem, you'll automatically get this dashboard created in AppSignal as soon as data from the new probe starts flowing in. Here's what you'll see: Magic Dashboards give people amazing insights into applications with zero setup. They work automagically to give your team performance insights into gems like Puma, Sidekiq, ActiveJob, ActionMailer, and others.

What Is Website Regression Testing and How Can Synthetic User Journeys Help?

Website regression testing is a form of software testing that helps to identify and fix problems with website content, functionality, and accessibility. It is a vital part of any testing strategy, as it can help to ensure that the website continues to meet user expectations. Website regression testing typically involves running a series of tests against the website to check for any issues. The tests can be performed by an automated system or manually by testers on the development team.