Streamlining your incident management process is what we do best, and one of the ways we do that is by acting as the connective tissue across all of your applications. We’ve partnered with Checkly to bring you a new integration that empowers you to detect problems and resolve incidents faster.

Datadog Notebooks simplify the way teams across an organization find and share knowledge. By bringing together live data and rich Markdown text, Notebooks help teams create powerful, data-driven documents—from runbooks and support playbooks to incident postmortems and data reports. And with collaboration functionalities like real-time editing and commenting, team members can simultaneously make changes to a document and gather feedback along the way.

There are plenty of ways to gain insights on website availability and performance, from setting up complex monitoring agents to browsing through real-time logs. Few services are as straightforward and robust as SolarWinds® Pingdom®. Pingdom lets you set up checks for your website including uptime, page speed, and user interactions. It then collates the results in a dashboard for you to visualize.

In most cases, when users start to access and use a new application or a new release, app performs pretty well. As the user base grows and usage increases, the app can outgrow its infrastructure. Users can start experiencing a dip in performance. Latency increases, bandwidth and memory get exhausted quickly, and some code architectures start to fail because they do not scale well with the increased amount of users.

The more tools that your teams need to execute their workflows, the more friction and lost productivity there can be, especially if each tool requires a different CLI or set of APIs. Retool is a low-code platform that allows you to build internal web applications using a drag-and-drop interface. By integrating with a number of key backend databases and APIs, Retool enables you to create custom, centralized management tools to serve a wide range of employee-facing use cases.

GraphQL is an open-source query and manipulation language to use for APIs. It contains server-side functionality and a query language for maintaining data interfaces. It was first created in 2012 by Facebook and publicly released in 2015. Since 2018, the GraphQL project has been hosted by the Linux Foundation and run by the GraphQL Foundation.

The HAProxy Data Plane API 2.3 expands its service discovery mechanisms and introduces native support for discovering AWS EC2 instances and auto-scaling groups. It also adds a new configuration file that supports HCL and YAML, an Inotify configuration watcher, and Syslog support. HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.3 is now available and you will find it in the 2.3 version of the Alpine Docker image.

Chris Sterling, Shruti Iyer, and Aditya Tripathi contributed to this blog post. APIs—the key component of any company’s microservices model—are driving digital transformation in modern enterprises. Indeed, “66 percent of organizations report using private or B2B APIs,” according to the Gartner report, “Create API Portals That Drive API Adoption Among Internal and External Developer Communities” by Akash Jain and Mark O’Neill, November 2020.

At Speedscale, we’re always trying to find ways to iterate faster and reduce developer toil. In line with that mission, we slant our engineering decisions towards using cutting edge tech because we usually move faster and it also allows us to help our customers later on when they upgrade their own tech stack. Recently, we had the opportunity to upgrade the communication channel between our api-gateway and react front end. This journey provided some unexpected benefits.