Black Friday to Cyber Monday. That time of the year when we fight the crowds and traffic to squeeze a month’s worth of shopping into just a few fleeting days. Having worked in retail during my college years, I remember the customers lined up outside before 4:00 a.m., chomping at the bit to race into the store and fight (literally) other shoppers for the “scraps” that were left. Ah, the good ol’ days.
In the IT world, if a server can fail or traffic can overload the network – it will. And the consequences of downtime are significant. Many IT organizations face database, hardware, and software downtime that last short periods or can shut down the business for days. According to Gartner, the average cost of network downtime alone is $5,600 per minute. What measures can organizations take to reduce IT downtime?
With the advent of social media platforms and accessible smartphone devices, the world has become smaller than ever before. This has lead websites and online services to the obvious necessity of localization. Translating an entire website into numerous languages, coupled with constant updates needed to make them relevant has led many companies to concern.
Investing in a log analysis tool provides many benefits: it saves time needed to detect and troubleshoot a problem, reduces churn by providing a better user experience, and improves system security. There is a wide scope of use cases for log analysis - from tackling security and performance issues head-on to enhancing the quality of your services. What are some of the most common use cases for log file analysis?
LogDNA today announced a new offering that enables developers to troubleshoot coding bugs and quickly fix development errors in applications, potentially saving businesses millions of dollars in development hours, downtime and associated revenue loss. IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA integrates LogDNA services to allow developers to aggregate all their log data across applications in the IBM Cloud.
Lambda layers and runtime API are two new feature of AWS Lambda which open up fun possibilities for customizing the Lambda runtime and enable decreased duplication of code across Lambda functions. Layers lets you package up a set of files and include them in multiple functions. Runtime API provides an API for interacting with the Lambda service function lifecycle events which lets you be much more flexible about what you run in your Lambda.
AWS’s announcement of Lambda Layers means big things for those of us using serverless in production. The creation of set components that can be included with any number of Lambdas means you no longer have to zip up your application code and all its dependencies each time you deploy a serverless stack. This allows you to include dependencies that are much more bespoke to your particular serverless environment.
In the present world, blogs and websites are becoming essential for your digital business. Performance of your e-commerce website and application can make or break your growth efforts. Website monitoring alerts you in real time regarding every kind of discrepancies before your customers notice it.
As expected, Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 sales broke records. Amazon reported their highest sales day ever on Cyber Monday, though exact numbers weren’t provided. Brick-and-mortar retailers saw a decline in foot traffic by 1.7% on Black Friday, hinting at the importance of website performance for retailers of all sizes. Companies are more conscious of website downtime and its effect on sales.
Vue.js. It's so hot right now. Hot like the sub-Saharan desert: a perfect climate for Honeybadgers. Good news, 'badgers! We just shipped an official Vue.js integration for Honeybadger. When your Vue apps are on fire, Honeybadger alerts you of exceptions in real-time, helping to identify the root cause so that you can fix them—fast.
