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.
Quality assurance is a priority at Evolution Gaming, the world leader in live casino gaming, and as Andrejs Kalnacs, Lead Software Developer in Test, said during his GrafanaCon EU talk in March, Grafana has been a game changer. While Kalnacs and his team have found Grafana to be invaluable in many areas, here are three best practices they’ve learned throughout their journey.
The typical DevOps on-call engineer is responding to alerts, triaging based on service impact, troubleshooting high priority incidents, and taking action to remediate issues. Automation tools like AWS Systems Manager can be a big help in reducing some of the more repetitive work and allowing engineers to focus on the most important tasks.
To build applications in AWS Lambda, you often need to use third party libraries and packages in your function code. Previously, these packages had to be included in a function’s deployment package. Today, Amazon Web Services released a new feature called Layers to simplify this process for Lambda developers. Layers allow you to deploy common components that you can reuse across functions, such as machine learning models, SDKs, or instrumentation libraries.
