Thomas Stocking, co-founder and vice president of product strategy, recently wrote an article titled Entering a Golden Age of Data Monitoring, featured in APM Digest. The article talks about three factors obscuring the benefits of data monitoring (the infinite volume of data, its diversity, and inconsistency), benefits of monitoring data, and the future of monitoring data—all fueling a “golden age” of systems monitoring.

Oracle Database has long been a mainstay of the business world. Companies use it to handle data sets backing a wide variety of complex applications, including data warehouses or OLTP systems. Oracle Database includes enterprise-friendly features that emphasize scalability, advanced partitioning, and optimized availability of data across a large, potentially disparate infrastructure, as well as real-time backup and recovery tools.

We’re happy to announce a new update release of our Ping Management Pack V 3.0.14.0 for SCOM 2012/2016. We’ve added three more Performance Monitors and reworked all the previous monitors in the Management Pack.

For any company with an online presence, website traffic is important. The more visitors you attract, the more opportunities you’ll have to advertise your brand, establish relationships and ultimately sell your service or product. This is why a sudden drop in search engine traffic is a frightening prospect, since it ultimately leads to business losses and lower revenue.

First and foremost, we are human. We can’t get around it, and some things will make us anxious, frustrated, and mad. As much as we like to think we are optimists, we frequently don’t notice something until it disappoints us in some way. In this article, we will take a look at how web performance and psychology impact user satisfaction.

In A Comedy of Errors, we talk to engineers about the weirdest, worst, and most interesting application and infrastructure issues they’ve encountered (and resolved) over the years. This week, we hear from Or Weis, co-founder and CEO of Rookout. Rookout’s focus is on collecting data in a seamless, immediate way that maximizes a developer’s insight into live code.

When you think of the top 100 sites in the world, you think of high-traffic domains and pages coded to perfection. In fact, even the most popular sites in the world have errors hidden behind the scenes that are still visible in your browser’s developer tools. These can affect your experience as a user directly, create inaccurate tracking data and security vulnerabilities, and even lose the company revenue.

We are excited to announce our recent support of .NET Standard 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2 applications for Raygun Crash Reporting. The update is for developers needing to target the .NET Standard 2 APIs. Our new provider targets both .NET Standard 1.6 and .NET Standard 2.0, so it can be used with both .NET Core 1 and .NET Core 2 applications. At the time of writing, it is just the .NET Core provider and ASP.NET Core provider that are .NET Core 2 compatible.

When it’s time to add or rework a wireless network for a client, a lot of little things need to line up for the venture to be successful. It’s not enough to simply have an SSID in the air, and if you’re not careful, you risk disrupting your client’s business and damaging your reputation. Though not every business has the same focus, when it comes to Wi-Fi there are a common set of concerns. Make sure these bases are covered.