Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Today’s fast-paced development environments require new approaches to testing. Enter continuous performance testing. Unlike traditional performance testing, automated continuous performance testing is part of every build, monitoring the application continuously under increased load. With continuous performance tests, organizations with lots of users can expect to improve the customer experience, prevent major outages, and find and resolve issues faster.

In today’s fast-paced software product development world, efficiency and innovation aren’t just important — they’re everything. DevOps engineers and SREs are tasked with maintaining high-performing systems, improving deployment frequency, and ensuring stability while navigating a dizzying amount of tools. Developers who write code also need to learn these tools and are dependent on them to do their jobs. So what’s the problem?

We live in an “always on” world, so unplanned outages are more than just inconvenient. They can result in lost revenue, damaged reputations, and, more importantly, frustrated customers. While preventing outages is impossible, the most resilient teams must be prepared with a solid plan, a “technical go bag,” so to speak: a collection of tools, plans, and resources ready to activate at the first sign of trouble.

The original premise of observability was to ensure system health, identify issues, and resolve those issues efficiently. As I recently outlined, the legacy approach (sometimes called Observability 1.0 now) relied heavily on metrics and tracing because logs were seen as too noisy or challenging. But, as most forward thinkers have identified now, logs are exactly the telemetry type that we need the most.

2024 has been a year of record-breaking growth and innovation at NinjaOne. In fact, we were named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for 2024. Being represented among the fastest-growing tech companies isn’t just an honor—it’s a testament to NinjaOne’s pivotal role in automating the hardest parts of IT through bold creativity and relentless customer focus. Let’s look at some of this year’s highlights.

.NET + DevOps Developer, Evidi Evidi – an IT consultancy and managed service provider based in Norway – are on a mission to help businesses harness the power of the Microsoft stack and realise their ambitions. With a large portfolio of services and a growing network of customers to manage, Evidi faced a challenge relatable to any MSP: They needed better visibility, and the solution had to be cost-effective and scalable.