Application performance monitoring (APM) is an important monitoring practice used in tech organizations today, but it hasn’t always been this way. Until somewhat recently, the concept was seen by many as an expensive luxury. No longer, APM is an absolute requirement to keep today’s applications healthy and performant. “APM tool” was a phrase likely to raise many an eyebrow.

Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify software development and reduce costs. Containers offer enormous advantages over traditional “waterfall” application development processes. A containerized approach makes it easier for developers to create and deploy software faster and with fewer errors.

Here at Lumigo, our mission is to help customers succeed with serverless by solving the observability problem and letting them focus on adding business value with serverless technologies. And to do that, we love to eat our own dogfood – be it using the same serverless technologies that our customers use and even using Lumigo to monitor Lumigo itself! That way, we feel your pain and we find solutions to problems that you care about.

When building cloud-based systems and serverless systems, in particular, it’s crucial to stay on top of things. Your infrastructure will be miles away from you and not a device you hold in your hands like when you build a frontend. That’s why adding a monitoring solution to your stack, which offers a pre-configured serverless failure detection, should be one of the first decisions.

MySQL is an open source database application that creates meaningful structure and accessibility for large amounts of data.. But, with large data comes performance issues. This article will give you performance tuning in MySQL tips in order to boost its performance.

We give entrepreneurs from around the world the opportunity to build their projects with FlashDrive, and we're grateful to be able to give back to the startup community all the help we received when we launched FlashDrive not so long ago. FlashDrive Startups Program is a free program designed for startups at various stages that provides free computational credit and dedicated support to help startups quickly get started with FlashDrive's infrastructure, innovate, and grow rapidly.

Starting a financial services agency has the potential to be a rewarding experience. The advancement of financial technology is rapidly transforming the sector. If you possess the skills to help individuals or organizations navigate the complexities of financial technology, your services could be providing clients with a tremendous amount of value. Financial services is a relatively broad term used to describe various offerings within the finance industry.

What is the fiercest area of competition among businesses today? It’s not just acquiring new customers, but instead, customer experience has become the most competitive area that can make or break any company’s success. Customer experience includes both customer service and customer engagement, so this category encompasses a broad field of factors to attend to.

In this episode of Coffee & Containers, North American DevOps Group‘s Jim Shilts speaks with Shipa‘s Bruno Andrade, VMware Tanzu‘s Gautham Pallapa, and IBM Cloud‘s Jason McGee McGee.

So you’re getting flooded by customer’s emails and phone calls whenever an incident arises in your business? It’s time to setup your very own status page! You might be thinking that there are so many options and you’ve probably heard of Atlassian’s Statuspage so now you want to make sure you pick the best status page provider. Well, you’re in the right place! Here are 5 reasons why you should pick Statuspal over Atlassian’s Statuspage.