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Goliath Technologies Continues Momentum in Healthcare by Delivering Proactive Health IT

Sharp growth driven by proven, industry-only solution for reducing end-user experience issues that impact the clinician’s virtual workspace and access to EHR applications and improves patient care.

Introducing AutoInstruments: zero-effort performance monitoring of custom Ruby code

Instrumenting the performance of custom code (the code you write, not the libraries you require) in web apps has been a thorn in my side for years. Yes, we have a custom instrumentation API, but raise your hand if you enjoy sprinkling your code with this? Anyone? Having a custom code instrumentation blackhole doesn't matter if your app spends almost all of its time in common libraries that Scout instruments by default (ex: ActiveRecord, Redis, View Rendering, and HTTP calls).

Introducing the lumigo-cli

Here at Lumigo, we are big fans of serverless. And a big part of working with AWS Lambda involves using many other AWS services. For example, services such as SNS and SQS are often used to chain Lambda functions together. They are essential ingredients of an event-driven architecture, where systems are loosely coupled through events. However, they also pose a challenge to how we test our systems and how to get fast feedback on what’s happening in the system.

Grafana Labs at 5: How We Got Here and Where We're Going

In the beginning, there was a developer using Graphite, and he found its user interface lacking. Then he discovered the Kibana project, liked its UI, and forked it. Grafana was born in 2013. “I started Grafana to do something similar as Kibana, but focused on time series metrics. My goal was to make time series data accessible for a wider audience, to make it easier to build dashboards, to make graphs and dashboards more interactive,” says Torkel Ödegaard.

Why You NEED to constantly check website speed

No one likes a slow website. Every IT pro needs to constantly check website speed to keep up with the demands of today’s uber-connected world. Fast websites aren’t just about laptops or desktops anymore. Website users connect from a variety of devices like cell phones and smart TVs. This post will discuss website speed testing, including how often you should test your speed, why one speed test probably won’t cut it, and some tips and tricks related to website speed and performance.

Top 10 Open Source Monitoring Tools for Kubernetes

With over 58K stars on GitHub and over 2,200 contributors across the globe, Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration. While solving some of the key challenges involved in running distributed microservices, it has also introduced some new ones. Not surprisingly, when asked, engineers list monitoring as one of the main obstacles for adopting Kubernetes. After all, monitoring distributed environments has never been easy and Kubernetes adds additional complexity.

SCOM is the most popular tool for monitoring SBC/ VDI

Google “SCOM and Azure” and the top hits will tell you all about “Moving from SCOM to Azure Monitor”, “Changing of the guard…”, and “Microsoft explains why it replaced SCOM with Azure Monitor” etc. If you only read the marketing, you’d be forgiven for thinking SCOM is being replaced. Microsoft’s marketing push on Azure Monitor has no doubt caused some uncertainty about the position of SCOM.

12 Tools to Provide a Killing Content for Your eCommerce Blog

With so much competition in the world of e-commerce, managing to reach the level of exposure targeted and to maintain your site visitors engaged isn’t easy. You need to use effective strategies that allow you to boost the appeal of your platform, maintain rankings up and decrease bounce rates.