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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

The Best Tools to Monitor for Website Changes, Uptime, Performance, Malware, SEO and More

There’s a variety of critical website change monitoring tools that should be leveraged for business and mission-critical websites. Such tools and software eliminate the need for manual website monitoring, and automatically detect important changes and updates and then alert business users and technology owners.

VMware Horizon Monitoring with eG Enterprise

eG Enterprise is a total performance management solution that enables VDI administrators to monitor the health, availability and performance of VMware Horizon environment from end to end. All components of the Horizon infrastructure are monitored and in-depth performance metrics and actionable insights are delivered to resolve issues faster and improve virtual desktop performance for end-users.

Golang Vendor Dependencies

We use Node.js extensively in our production apps. When we started with golang, the major discussion point amongst us was, for a beginner how golang dependency management is supposed to work. Vendoring was the only method for golang dependency management. In this, you save a local copy of the dependent libraries that your application shall use. In Node.js world, dependency is managed using packages.json.

Delivering Impressive End User Experiences in Citrix Xen Upgrades - But not as an afterthought!

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop have been around for many years, delivering IT Ops an essential ability to centrally manage and control costs of App and VDI delivery. The move to a new architecture in Xen 6.X accelerated deployments and now the move to the latest improvements in Xen 7.X is in full swing. We see this occurring globally, with generally good results.

Hardening against future S3 outages

On February 28, 2017, Amazon S3 in the us-east-1 region suffered an outage for several hours, impacting huge swaths of the internet. StatusGator was impacted, though I was able to mitigate some of the more serious effects pretty quickly and StatusGator remained up and running, reporting status page changes through the event. Since StatusGator is a destination for people when the internet goes dark, I aim to keep keep it stable during these events.

The End-User Experience Enigma: The Continuing Performance Puzzle Saga in Citrix Environments

With over 400K customers, Citrix is defining the digital workspace that securely delivers Windows, Linux, web, SaaS apps, and full virtual desktops to any device, anywhere. Citrix administrators at all these customers are the frontline for addressing dissatisfied end users of those applications and desktops. Unfortunately, even today, understanding real end-user experience in Citrix environments remains an unsolved puzzle.