Platform engineering is the practice of automating infrastructure operations and enabling self-service infrastructure capabilities within collaborative Dev, Ops and QA teams. It involves designing and building platforms, technologies and workflows that enable self-service capabilities to automatically manage, provision and operate complex modern software architecture environments.

With the goal of helping you get to the “why” faster, Splunk Observability recently announced several new enhancements to reduce noise and provide more visibility when isolating problems in your environments. Specific to applications and services, whether you operate monolithic or microservices architectures our releases help you easily investigate problems in complex environments. Here’s a roundup of the recent Splunk APM capability releases, and helpful links to help get started now.

There are many aspects of application performance, but they broadly fall into two categories: frontend performance and backend performance. As a tester, it’s important to know the differences between the two and how that impacts the way you approach your tests. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level overview of frontend performance testing and backend performance testing, including pros and cons of each one.

Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used collaboration tools today. Entire enterprises rely on MS Teams for cross-functional communication, project management, and productivity. If Teams has issues, entire projects can get derailed, and business objectives could be at risk. This places pressure on IT teams to proactively measure and manage the performance of MS Teams, to ensure issues don’t prohibit employee productivity.

Are you tired of feeling like you're in the dark when it comes to your network? Do you want to know what your data is up to when you're not looking? Well, put on your spy gear, because we're about to show you how to spy on your network with AWS Network Monitoring! Forget about traditional monitoring methods that leave you feeling overwhelmed and under-informed.

In today’s dynamic and rapidly changing environment, organizations deploy most, if not all of their business solutions using SaaS applications. This fast-paced digital transformation makes it critical for organizations to ensure the performance of SaaS applications, so that these applications can meet end user demands and provide the expected experiences. IT teams must ensure their SaaS applications are functioning well, facilitating productivity rather than inhibiting it.

In today's fast-paced business environment, reliable and efficient network connectivity is crucial to the success of any organization. Slow or inconsistent connections can disrupt operations, cause delays, and negatively impact productivity. One of the key factors that can affect the performance of your network is latency, or the delay between the sending and receiving of data.

SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) is a popular enterprise resource planning (ERP) software used by businesses to manage various operations such as finance, human resources, and supply chain management. As businesses rely on SAP for their critical operations, it is essential that the software performs at an optimal level. Slow SAP performance can result in frustration, delays, and ultimately, reduced productivity.