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Hiring a DevOps Engineer: Useful Tips and Best Practices

Hiring a DevOps engineer is a common practice at most IT companies. Having a DevOps developer in your team usually results in making releases more often, faster and better than competitors not implementing a DevOps strategy. Today hiring a DevOps engineer is also relevant for industries other than those from the IT world. Businesses from startups to large enterprises are increasingly thinking: Why not introduce DevOps?

A Full Guide on Using Application Monitoring for Your Business

Wondering whether you can optimize your business using application performance monitoring? The answer is “Surely!” Our full guide on application monitoring usage will serve as proof. Contemporary businesses and startups depend on software applications for running their digital activities and supplying SaaS or AaaS (application-as-a-service). Nowadays, expedited application and service delivery without sacrificing quality is a top concern.

What are Linux Logs? How to View Them, Most Important Directories & More

In software, it’s essential to monitor logs of system activities. Today we’ll unravel what Linux logs are and how you can view them. Logging is a must for today’s developers and why Retrace was designed with a built-in, centralized log management tool.

Best Practices to Monitor Node.js Performance

Built on the V8 JavaScript engine of Chrome, Node.js is a very lightweight, open-source framework with minimum modules. And since it is an asynchronous system by default, it is faster than most other frameworks. DevOps still need Node.js monitoring to ensure performance better than other frameworks. In order to understand how relevant Node.js still is, note that PayPal, Reddit, LinkedIn, Amazon, Netflix and other high-use, high-visibility service providers use the framework.

The Different Types Of Cloud Deployment And Their Pros And Cons

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources without direct active management by the user. Instead, the delivery of said resources is available over the internet, which has made cloud computing a popular digital service that various industries use to operate and manage work tasks. How cloud computing services are implemented, hosted and accessed by users is called cloud deployment. There are different types of deployments, each with defined advantages for users.

Website Performance Monitoring and Optimization Best Practices

Websites are a must-have for any business that wants to survive in a highly competitive environment. Many people mistakenly think that only e-commerce projects need a website, but this is not the case. Absolutely every company needs website performance monitoring and virtually every initiative should be armed with its own webpage. But this article is not about why you need a website, but about how to track and manage its performance.

AWS Fargate Monitoring

How do you perform AWS Fargate monitoring? Today, we’ll discuss the background of AWS Fargate and using Retrace to monitor your code. As companies evolve from a monolithic architecture to microservice architectures, some common challenges often surface that companies must address during the journey. In this post, we’ll discuss one of these challenges: observability and how to do it in AWS Fargate.

Node.js Performance Monitoring

Software developers use the Node.js environment to develop robust and innovative applications. But the bigger the goal, the higher the risk. Learn about Node.js performance monitoring to ensure quality and risk-free software products. Part of diligent software development is making sure all system applications work well individually and as a whole.

What to Do About Java Memory Leaks: Tools, Fixes, and More

Memory management is Java’s strongest suit and one of the many reasons developers choose Java over other platforms and programming languages. On paper, you create objects, and Java deploys its garbage collector to allocate and free up memory. But that’s not to say Java is flawless. As a matter of fact, memory leaks happen and they happen a lot in Java applications. We put together this guide to arm you with the know-how to detect, avoid and fix memory leaks in Java.