At LogicMonitor, we talk to customers and prospects constantly. This enables us to observe trends in requests for new features and functionality. There are two major topics that prospects and customers have been raising recently.

jsDelivr, the first and only free multi-CDN for open source projects are now using PerfOps FlexBalancer to load balance between their sponsoring CDNs. Until now, jsDelivr had been using Cedexis Openmix to achieve its Multi-CDN load balancing. After analyzing the ease of migration and benefits of FlexBalancer, jsDelivr decided that it was time for a change.

Software is eating the world. How we spend time, what we eat, who we meet, how we communicate, where we travel... is defined by the code. Increasingly, software is calling the shots and telling humans what to do. With deep learning, this trend is just going to accelerate. The most powerful companies that used to rule the world with professional, skilled executives are becoming incumbents getting disrupted.

One of the most common questions we get at Honeycomb is about how to control costs while still achieving the level of observability needed to debug, troubleshoot, and understand what is happening in production. Historically, the answer from most vendors has been to aggregate your data–to offer you calculated medians, means, and averages rather than the deep context you gain from having access to the actual events coming from your production environment.

We’ve all read those op-eds in the Smarter Living section of NYT about impostors syndrome. After all, they have been getting more and more traction as a new generation enters the associate-level in their career.

In our previous blog post, we discussed how intelligent root-cause analysis and remediation capabilities provide faster mean time to resolution using readily accessible contextual data collected from different sources. This was reinforced by The Forrester Wave™: Intelligent Application and Service Monitoring, Q2 2019, as they acknowledged the importance of having robust tools for measuring digital customer experience (CX).

Welcome to the second edition of Serverless from the Trenches, our series of bite-sized blog posts aimed at developers and DevOps working in serverless. Each article will focus on a different technique or tool to solve a real-world problem and – hopefully – help make your work in serverless more productive. This week we look at how to add Cognito to your integration tests flow, making for true black box testing.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, accounting for more than 60% of the market. The reasons for such popularity are obvious: it’s a convenient and powerful system with dozens of built-in tools and thousands of themes and plugins. WordPress offers numerous benefits and allows you to quickly create a customized website, no matter whether you have a news blog or an e-commerce business.

Your customers aren’t shy about what they want. They want a website that loads quickly and efficiently on any device. More people than ever are surfing the internet on their phones. Having a fast website is important for improving search engine rankings and keeping your profits up. The first thing you can do is determine your website’s speed with a free website speed test. Here are six ways to optimize on-page website speed.

In the last post, Samuell (from the og-aws Slack group) figured out his negative TTL problems in Cloudfront. During that session, we actually solved two different problems. This post is to finish off that conversation and address the other problem, which was how to use the default error page in Cloudfront.