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How Slow App Performance Can Impact Your Bottom Line

You’ve delivered your product, application, or website. You’re seeing some traffic and even some conversions. But something is holding you back. Could it be speed? In today’s world of limited patience and shortened attention spans, you have to make sure that you’re giving your customers the enjoyable experience they need to stick around.

Zipkin vs Jaeger: Getting Started With Tracing

Request tracing is the ultimate insight tool. Request tracing tracks operations inside and across different systems. Practically speaking, this allows engineers to see the how long an operation took in a web server, database, application code, or entirely different systems, all presented along a timeline. Request tracing is especially valuable in distributed systems where a single transaction (such as “create an account”) spans multiple systems.

Part I: How not to structure your database-backed web apps

Most scientific papers are unlikely to change your day-to-day approach as a Rails web developer. How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE’18 is the exception to that rule. This study examined 12 popular, mature, opensource Rails apps for ActiveRecord performance anti-patterns. And boy, did they find some issues.

Business iQ Enhancements in 4.5: Connecting the dots between applications and business

Business iQ helps enterprises correlate application performance with critical business metrics in real-time. In addition to providing end-to-end visibility into multi-step complex business workflows, customers can now leverage out-of-the-box dashboards and metrics with no manual configuration required.

AppDynamics - Our Next 10 Years

Recently, the employees of AppDynamics celebrated our 10th anniversary as a company, as well as the 1st anniversary of our acquisition by Cisco. We’ve experienced so much growth and so many positive changes over this past year, it’s enough to make our heads spin! However, it’s safe to say that AppDynamics isn’t close to slowing down.

Cloud Computing and Its Impact on Your SEO

The impact of the internet on the business world cannot be understated, with words like 'revolutionised' and 'elevated' regularly employed to describe the current climate. The last three decades have seen businesses gradually adapting to the internet and performing more and more of their operations online.

Enhance Your Business Suite with ConnectWise and OpsGenie

OpsGenie and ConnectWise have a bidirectional integration that brings value to your teams by allowing you to manage incidents with ease and speed, notify the right people of ConnectWise alerts at the right time according to schedules and escalations, and the integration’s bidirectional functionality allows information to both be sent to and from OpsGenie and ConnectWise.

NiCE Solutions on Micro Focus ITOM Marketplace

Modern IT Operations Management tools bridge the gap between traditional IT, the new digital enterprise and fast-paced new business initiatives in a straightforward way. The Micro Focus ITOM Marketplace is the place to go, when it comes to using Micro Focus Operations Manager (OM) and Operations Bridge Manager (OBM). It assembles all ITOM solutions and third party integrations currently available on the market.

There And Back Again: A Honeycomb Tracing Story

In our previous post about Honeycomb Tracing, we used tracing to better understand Honeycomb’s own query path. When doing this kind of investigation, you typically have to go back and forth, zooming out and back in again, between your analytics tool and your tracing tool, often losing context in the process.