RUM and APM are two important acronyms to know if you work in software development or DevOps today. Moreover, not only is it important to be able to define RUM and APM — It’s also critical to understand the similarities and differences between each type of software monitoring process.

In many product development workflows, there are three main concerns: building, testing, and deployment. In this scenario, every change that is made to the code means something could accidentally go wrong, so to lessen the likelihood of this happening, developers assume many strategies to reduce incidents and bugs. One strategy is to adopt continuous integration tools (CI): used together with a source version software to verify if something has gone wrong for every update.

2018 was a busy and productive year in StatusHub. We received a lot of great feedback and suggestions from our customers and we would like to say thanks. Today, we want to share our most recent updates and give a sneak peek of upcoming improvements.

I have been seeing this motivational quote pop up on my social media feeds a lot lately: “There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”  I’ll be honest, I really like the saying. As far as motivational quips go, it does the trick — after reading it I always feel like it’s time to get up and do something.

Using the right Ruby interpreter to run your programs can make all the difference. Unfortunately, it can be tough to find resources about different Ruby interpreter options, or about how to choose the right one.

This week we share news about the Azure Data Explorer plugin for Grafana, updates to the GrafanaCon LA speaker list, new functionality added to the polystat panel plugin and more.

Recently, we shared a blog postabout Opsgenie’s first ShipIt experience as part of the Atlassian TEAM. As mentioned in the previous post, ShipIt is Atlassian’s “hackathon” style event, which encourages every employee to creatively solve problems and develop innovative product features. Now that we've explained our ShipIt experience, I thought this post would be a great opportunity to share some product-related innovations that we explored.

If you work in an enterprise-scale organization, you’ve no doubt dreamt about the potential your organization would have if your teams worked together as well as the gears in a Formula 1 car. To be honest, this is what keeps Atlassians up at night too: trying to figure out how to get that optimal outcome with so many other factors and influences butting in.

Ecommerce companies completely dependent on the internet for revenue experience increased pressure to provide an always-available, always-working shopping experience for customers. Nasdaq puts estimates for ecommerce-facilitated transactions to be up to 95% by the year 2040. During Black Friday through Cyber Monday 2018, Shopify reported their merchants sold up to $37 million per hour through their ecommerce platform.

Establishing a startup isn’t easy; founders often spend a good majority of their time mapping out finances, operations, raw materials, product development, solid marketing and sales procedures, as well as hiring skilled employees during their initial years. Besides this, they also worry about keeping up with competitors and delivering quality services or products.