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Zipkin vs Jaeger: Getting Started With Tracing

Request tracing is the ultimate insight tool. Request tracing tracks operations inside and across different systems. Practically speaking, this allows engineers to see the how long an operation took in a web server, database, application code, or entirely different systems, all presented along a timeline. Request tracing is especially valuable in distributed systems where a single transaction (such as “create an account”) spans multiple systems.

Part I: How not to structure your database-backed web apps

Most scientific papers are unlikely to change your day-to-day approach as a Rails web developer. How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE’18 is the exception to that rule. This study examined 12 popular, mature, opensource Rails apps for ActiveRecord performance anti-patterns. And boy, did they find some issues.

Business iQ Enhancements in 4.5: Connecting the dots between applications and business

Business iQ helps enterprises correlate application performance with critical business metrics in real-time. In addition to providing end-to-end visibility into multi-step complex business workflows, customers can now leverage out-of-the-box dashboards and metrics with no manual configuration required.