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Virteva Customer Spotlight

Virteva is a multi-award winning ServiceNow Elite Sales and Services Partner that helps organizations create and maintain a competitive advantage through innovative workflow design, white glove support and technology that enhances effectiveness and resilience in a rapidly changing landscape of work. Virteva has over 2,500 implementations and 20+ years of Enterprise Service Management experience.

Monitoring GraphQL APIs with OpenTelemetry

GraphQL is a query language for APIs developed by Facebook in 2012. It was then open-sourced in 2015. GraphQL enables frontend developers or consumers of APIs to request the exact data that they need, with no over-fetching or under-fetching. In this article, we will learn how to monitor GraphQL APIs with the open-source APM tool, SigNoz. GraphQL has become a popular alternative to REST because of its ease of use. It enables developers to pull data from multiple data sources in a single API call.

Welcome to 10GB of tmp storage with Lambda

Every Lambda function comes with 512MB of ephemeral storage in the shape of a /tmp directory. This storage space can be reused across multiple invocations for the same instance of a Lambda function. Each instance of a function has its own /tmp directory and data is not shared amongst different instances of a function.

Distributed Tracing 101

The boom of digital commerce is making all businesses take a closer look at how they deliver great customer experiences. To stay competitive, businesses today are using cloud-native architectures, because the cloud-native applications they produce deploy quickly and better support the continuous improvement cycles of agile methodology. Behind the practicality of keeping online customers happy are distributed cloud environments that business applications use for each customer interaction.

Quickly identify client side errors and latency, with Splunk RUM

Splunk RUM (Real User Monitoring) helps software engineers quickly identify and isolate the most glaring client side performance issues, from errors to latency. Easily measure performance across your entire production environment, to specific services or applications, and seamlessly click into backend service performance.