It’s 2024; who hasn’t heard of.NET Core, the primary framework developers use to build desktop and web apps? However, if you want to build something impactful, just choosing the right technology isn’t enough. Any major development process requires you to follow certain best practices to ensure that the project you’re building is future-proof. In this article, you’ll find the.NET Core top practices to help you ensure that your application is secure, scalable, and efficient.

Transactions-per-Second (TPS) is a valuable metric for evaluating system performance and is particularly relevant for engineers overseeing Kubernetes environments.TPS, alongside average response time, provides critical insights into system performance during load testing. This post covers two approaches to calculating TPS; a manual approach applicable in all environments, and an automatic Kubernetes-specific solution using production traffic replication.

As developers, one of the most important things we can consider when designing and building applications is the ability to know if our application is running in an ideal operating condition, or said another way: the ability to know whether or not your application is healthy. This is particularly important when deploying your application to Kubernetes. Kubernetes has the concept of container probes that, when used, can help ensure the health and availability of your application.

In the fast-paced world of equity broking, compliance with regulatory requirements and operational efficiency are paramount. Broking platforms must ensure that their systems are not only continuously monitored, but their data is accurately reported to regulatory bodies. This is a story of how a leading equity broker from India leveraged our AIOps APIs to meet their regulatory compliance requirements while achieving operational excellence.

Whether you’re a business running cloud-based applications, an educational institution facilitating virtual learning or a remote worker, latency issues can be a major roadblock. At a time when businesses and remote workers depend heavily on cloud services, real-time communication tools like Zoom, and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams, even a slight delay in network performance can disrupt workflows, cause frustration, and hinder overall efficiency.

Managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can become challenging as storage needs grow. With rising storage costs and limits, organizations often look for efficient ways to offload files. One highly scalable and cost-effective solution is moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

Thanks to Microsoft's Playwright, running end-to-end tests with real browsers is quickly done. Initialize a new Playwright project, install all the dependencies, and off you go! Then, any new headless browser test run is only one npx playwright test away. But have you checked all the test command's CLI options? playwright test includes a few real gems to help you create better tests faster. Let me share a mixed bag of my favorite CLI tricks in this post.

Strong observability in cloud environments is essential for monitoring the health of interconnected systems. Unlike traditional monitoring, which is limited to specific cloud stacks or devices, observability provides comprehensive visibility across the entire hybrid IT infrastructure including applications, IT systems and services.

During our webinar, Next Gen Log Management: Maximize Log Value with Telemetry Pipelines, we discussed how you can take your log management strategy to the next level with telemetry pipelines and unlock the full potential of your data. Bill explained that the rapid growth of log data is driving up storage and management costs. He emphasized the need for an intelligent, adaptable log management system to efficiently handle this situation.

Webhooks are a powerful way to notify external systems about checks changing state in Healthchecks.io. Webhook notifications are available to all user accounts, paid and free. Webhooks were the second notification method supported by Healthchecks (the first one was email). The webhook delivery code started as a simple requests.get(user_supplied_url) and evolved. Today, the webhook integration in Healthchecks supports.