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Rethinking Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Sentry Raises $40 Million Series C

When I started Sentry in 2008 as an open-source side-project, I was solving a problem for myself. I wanted visibility and alerting around what errors occurred and when. I wanted to take errors out of log files and into an easily digestible dashboard.

Sentry Extends Best-in-Class Error Monitoring for Native Applications

Application crashes have a significant impact on customer experience, which can adversely affect a company’s reputation and revenue. Error and crash reporting is a unique feedback mechanism that provides true data about the quality of their product. Developer teams that create games, mobile applications, IoT, and other high-performance applications need rich insights into application health to quickly and continuously fix software errors with minimal impact.

Startup CTO: How to Interview Software Engineers

When you find a software engineer who passes your code test, you’ll want to bring them in for an in-office interview. In this part of our series on hiring software engineers as the CTO of a startup, we’ll talk about Blue Matador’s approach to the in-office interview and the insights I’ve gained in this part of the CTO experience.

Better Together: Goliath Technologies & IGEL for Virtual Workspaces

We at Goliath Technologies are excited about our growing relationship with IGEL and our joint customers. Together we are improving and simplifying the end-to-end user experience as the marketplace adopts IGEL software defined endpoints. Our proactive end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting platform works with IGEL, running on a Citrix or VMware Horizon delivery infrastructure, to automatically identify any events, conditions, or failure points that impact the workspace experience.

How Many Metrics? A Guide to Estimating the Size of Your System

Our hosted metrics offering, Grafana Cloud, is billed based on usage; a common question we get is “How much will it cost to monitor N servers?” We charge $49/month for every 3,000 active series or 18,000 data points per minute (dpm), whichever is higher. To help you understand what that translates to in terms of how much storage you need, here’s a rough guide to estimating the size of your system.

On Premises to Cloud: Easing the Transition

A recent Gartner report states: “Organizations with a cross-discipline cloud strategy are more likely to find success in cloud initiatives and recognize the full benefits of cloud.” Advances in machine learning and AI have opened up avenues for forward-thinking enterprises to drive extensive automation using the latest cloud technologies.

Monitoring and incident management: a winning combination

Monitoring systems gather and log a wide range of performance data on a diverse range of targets—from applications to user experience, networks, servers, and more. Usually, monitoring is conducted under runtime conditions, but synthetic monitoring can also be used to simulate loads and test the resilience of web services, for example.

Git Dos and Don'ts

It’s no surprise to learn that the team at GitKraken is passionate about Git. So passionate, in fact, that we created an educational database featuring our Learning Git with GitKraken YouTube series, educational white papers, cheat sheets, and more. And our partners at Syncfusion are no different. In a previous article, Bharat Dwarkani, technical product manager at Syncfusion, describes how the Gitflow model has simplified his organization’s development and release processes.