Python performance measurement tools help us to identify performance bottlenecks in our app. This allows us to focus on the business logic as opposed to writing custom code, setting it up with our app, and then figuring out whether the results are accurate enough. These tools are well tested by the open source community and used by many companies to measure the performance of their web apps.

Application performance monitoring (APM) dovetails nicely with infrastructure monitoring, allowing you to monitor app performance and end-user satisfaction in context with the rest of your infrastructure. That’s why we unveiled Datadog APM to complement our infrastructure monitoring platform and provide full-stack observability.

Logs provide invaluable information about issues you need to troubleshoot. In some circumstances, that may mean that you have to look back at old logs. For example, you may be running a security audit and need to analyze months-old HTTP request logs for a list of specific IP addresses over a period of time. Or you might need to investigate why a scheduled service never occurred, or run an exhaustive postmortem on incidents that happened over a couple months but that you suspect are related.

This is a very exciting time for the CFEngine product team, the community, and the user base. As we are getting closer to the release of CFEngine 3.15 LTS, we can look back at some great improvements in the last few years.

In case you missed it, we just wrapped up our keynote to kick off SpiceWorld 2019! Last year, we shared our vision to empower you to use technology to transform your organizations, community, and the world – every day. This year, you’re seeing the first steps of that vision coming to life!

Many say that in the world of tech, the only constant is change. For businesses, this dynamic reality presents opportunities as companies continuously scan the horizon for new IT products and services they can deploy to help them stay competitive. At the same time, businesses must navigate computing challenges, such as staying up to date and safe in an expanding universe of cyberthreats.