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Digital experience and digital experience platforms, defined

Usually, people want a seamless experience when they interact with any organization. Whether a B2B or B2C interaction, the expectation is the same. In our world today, it's nearly impossible to interact with an organization without using technology. When a person interacts with an organization via a digital medium, it can be termed digital experience.

Managing Kafka on AWS with Nastel Navigator

Apache Kafka is a very popular open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Amazon MSK is a fully managed Kafka service that makes using Kafka even easier. But how do you get started with Kafka on AWS? How do you migrate your existing Kafka environment to the cloud? How do you manage many Kafka environments at once?

Serverless observability with OpenTelemetry and AWS Lambda

Nowadays, microservice architecture is a pattern that helps to innovate quicker by enabling easier scalability, giving language flexibility, improving fault isolation, etc. Systems built this way also bring some downsides. Moving parts, concurrent invocations, and different retries policies can make operating and troubleshooting such systems challenging. Without proper tools, correlating logs with metrics may be difficult. To overcome these challenges, you need observability.

What is a network monitoring system?

Network monitoring is a set of automatic processes that help to detect the status of each element of your network infrastructure. We are talking about routers, switches, access points, specific servers, intermediate network elements, and other related systems or applications (such as web servers, web applications, or database servers).In other words, network monitoring can be understood as taking a look at all the connected elements that are relevant to you or your organization.

Android Manifest Placeholders

Android Manifest file is essential for any Android app, which contains specific information about your app, Android build tools, Google Play, device permissions, app launch information, operating system config and more. Every Android app must have an AndroidManifest.xml file in the directory structure. Android Manifest usually contains pre-defined or static information which is then used to run the app.

Introducing Symphony: Catchpoint's New User Experience Platform

We at Catchpoint are always striving to help our customers improve their products’ user experience, because, as we believe that “the experience is the point.” With a motto like that, you can bet we take the usability and effectiveness of our own platform very seriously, and are constantly striving to deliver a world-class user experience in the Catchpoint Portal. With that in mind, we have spent the better part of the last few years redesigning Catchpoint Portal from the ground up.

Synthetics 101 - Part 2: Protecting and growing revenue with proactive monitoring

In part 1 of our synthetics series, we looked at tracking network performance to drive better business outcomes. Here in part 2 of our series, we’ll dig into the very first and most basic business outcome of using digital experience monitoring (DEM). That is, we’ll look at how to protect and grow revenue by proactively monitoring the health, availability and uptime of your critical applications and services, so you can fix issues before your customers’ experience suffers.