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How to Improve Conversions by Localizing a Website

With the advent of social media platforms and accessible smartphone devices, the world has become smaller than ever before. This has lead websites and online services to the obvious necessity of localization. Translating an entire website into numerous languages, coupled with constant updates needed to make them relevant has led many companies to concern.

5 Reasons you must monitor your e-commerce website

In the present world, blogs and websites are becoming essential for your digital business. Performance of your e-commerce website and application can make or break your growth efforts. Website monitoring alerts you in real time regarding every kind of discrepancies before your customers notice it.

Black Friday 2018: Best & worst website performance & uptime

Another Black Friday and Cyber Monday has come and gone. While all of you were frantically running from store to store and site to site looking for those great deals, we were watching. We followed 55 of the top e-commerce sites to see how they did regarding website uptime and performance during the peak shopping days, Black Friday, November 23rd and Cyber Monday, November 26th.

Monitor AWS App Mesh and Envoy with Datadog

Envoy proxies communication among microservices. It is a key component in many service-oriented architectures—and one that offers a unique opportunity to gain visibility into your service mesh. We’re pleased to announce that Datadog integrates with Envoy as well as AWS App Mesh, a new hosted service based on Envoy that dynamically configures your service mesh proxies.

How to Create a Changelog with Uptime.com

A changelog is a chronological list of important changes users can reference as an application or service expands. Logs explain what features are added, which are changed or adjusted and what those changes do. They sometimes provide explanation or instruction. Logs are useful for preparing your user base for scheduled downtime, and giving your most loyal users something to look forward to.

How to Monitor AWS Lambda with CloudWatch

Since Amazon released Lambda in late 2014, the notion of serverless applications and function-as-a-service has steadily gained steam. Being able to focus on application code and simplifying infrastructure management is alluring, but traditional monitoring methods are no longer applicable. With less visibility, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring methods. In this post, we discuss those monitoring methods, CloudWatch Metrics and CloudWatch Logs.

Product management tips for high-growth environments: How to tame fires

As a product manager in a high-growth environment, I have come to accept that at any given time, something is on fire. Or, at the very least, smoldering. Five or so years ago, the team at Raygun, was just five people. Now, we’re building software products for businesses like Nordstrom. With this growth also comes many learning opportunities for a product manager like myself.