One of the cornerstones of a successful business in today’s digital environment is ensuring that web application performance is user-friendly and runs smoothly. A well-oiled website and its applications represent the face of a company, and in an ideal scenario, they serve as a mark of reliability, innovation, and progress.

In a world where IT infrastructure becomes more complex with each additional layer, knowing what is happening in your infrastructure becomes more complicated every day.

On May 7th 2018 Microsoft released a preview version of their own CDN under the name "Azure CDN". It will join Akamai and Verizon(Edgecast) in Azure, their cloud platform. Interestingly its the only cloud provider that resells third-party CDN services. Their direct competitors Google and Amazon both offer CDN services exclusively built on their own infrastructure.

A wave of digital transformation is rolling in—a wave of universal connectivity, personalization, and adoption of intelligent technologies that many organizations have never navigated before. Adopting digital technologies often entails restructuring business verticals and scaling up data processing. One such vertical, IT operations (IT Ops), is finding it challenging to manually handle and process huge volumes of complex data.

Having hard time installing pinpoint? Pinpoint has started to support Docker. Visit our Official Pinpoint-Docker repository(https://github.com/naver/pinpoint-docker) for more information.

When it comes to observing systems, it helps to have tools that quickly and efficiently allow you to highlight events, anomalies, or simply changes to the code base. Enter Markers.

While logs can tell us whether a specific request failed to execute or not and metrics can help us monitor how many times this request failed and how long the failed request took, traces help us debug the reason why the request failed, or took so long to execute by breaking up the execution flow and dissecting it into smaller events.

If you’re feeling too busy or overwhelmed to instrument your code, we are here for you. We’ve talked many times about the value of instrumentation, and how it’s necessary to instrument your code properly to have access to the kind of data you need to get real observability. Instrumenting your code can mean a lot of things, but in particular it means you have to augment it in many different places, which is time-consuming.

Today we’d like to take you through one of our newest additions to our integrations for receiving StatusCake alerts. Whilst being a relatively new service, Discord has already made a big impact and already has a user-base of over 90 million individuals world wide.

Just a quick post highlighting some of the changes made since Apex Up v0.5.0! If you’re unfamiliar with Up, it’s a command-line tool to help you deploy and manage near-infinitely scalable serverless web applications and APIs on AWS. You can deploy as many applications as you need, for the fraction of the price of other providers, with zero operational maintenance or manual scaling efforts.