Spring is an application development framework for Java. But as any developer will tell you, Spring and Spring Boot are more than just frameworks. They have become synonyms for Java because most web-based applications written in Java are based on the Spring framework. This is due to the fact that when it was first introduced in 2003 by Rod Johnson, it brought a much-needed structure to Java projects and made it very easy for anybody to get started with building small and large applications in Java.

Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration platform that allows you to manage and scale your containerized workloads. You can run Kubernetes anywhere—on-premises or in a public or hybrid cloud. Kubernetes helps you build scalable services by providing functionalities like declarative configuration, immutable infrastructure, horizontal scaling, load balancing, service discovery, and self-healing systems.

Monitoring digital user experiences is a critical part of an observability solution. Understanding the reason for a poor visitor experience on your website or analyzing the health and performance of your website can help fix issues quickly so that they don’t impact a significant user base. That is why we have integrated Browser Tracing into our solution. Browser Tracing can be considered as a part of Real User Monitoring.

In today’s digital economy, the demand for responsive and high-performance applications has grown by leaps and bounds. No one wants an application that is slow and unresponsive. Most importantly, if your application is slow, it will have a detrimental effect on profits as well as the brand itself. Imagine you’ve built an e-commerce application.

Presented in 2009 and released in 2010, the Node.js platform began to attract the interest of web developers from all over the world as an ideal solution for implementing the backend of applications. Already used by companies like LinkedIn, Uber, eBay, and PayPal, Node’s non-blocking and event-driven architecture lets you build very performant and scalable network services fast due to its flat learning curve and available tools like Express.

So what is Distributed Tracing anyway? In the olden days, to debug problems, developers would typically log into the server running the software and inspect the logs and maybe some real-time metrics to investigate the issue. Nowadays, the distributed nature of modern architectures makes this impossible (although it wasn’t the best way, to begin with).

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide an entry point for external users into your internal world, that is, your business logic. This is a secure way of giving them such access. The alternative would mean that these users could completely access your code and review your system’s internal architecture, which would be a bad idea.