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Docker Tutorial: Get Going From Scratch

Docker is a platform for packaging, deploying, and running applications. Docker applications run in containers that can be used on any system: a developer’s laptop, systems on premises, or in the cloud. Containerization is a technology that’s been around for a long time, but it’s seen new life with Docker. It packages applications as images that contain everything needed to run them: code, runtime environment, libraries, and configuration.

Announcing variable substitution in Stackdriver alerting notifications

When an outage occurs in your cloud application, having fast insight into what’s going on is crucial to resolving the issue quickly. If you use Google Stackdriver, you probably rely on alerting policies to detect these issues and notify you with relevant information. To improve the organization and readability of the information contained in these alerts, we’ve added some new features to make our alerting notifications more descriptive, useful and actionable.

Introducing Dashboard Widgets

This morning we launched a new update for the RapidSpike App. This update includes a totally new Dashboard experience for our users. Our old dashboard – or “Home” screen – featured a number of fairly static graphs and charts showing your account usage. We felt that this screen was badly in need of an update to show off the cool and exciting facts and figures RapidSpike can generate.

7 Common Web Application Performance Problems (and How to Solve Them)

One of the cornerstones of a successful business in today’s digital environment is ensuring that web application performance is user-friendly and runs smoothly. A well-oiled website and its applications represent the face of a company, and in an ideal scenario, they serve as a mark of reliability, innovation, and progress.

Retrace Log Management: Logs, Errors and Code Level Performance

Log management is traditionally described as a way to collect all of your log data in one place so you can use it for a wide variety of uses. Retrace APM with log management aims to create the perfect product and user experience for developers with specific needs for managing logs..

How Much Downtime is Acceptable?

Downtime occurs. It's an unfortunate fact of online life. No website is able to provide 100% uptime - even tech giants like Google suffer downtime, albeit very occasionally. So, some amount of downtime is inevitable, but how much is acceptable? This question is obviously subjective - downtime that's acceptable for one person may be intolerable for another. Therefore, we undertook a little research...

OpenTracing: Zipkin as Distributed Tracer

In part one of the OpenTracing blog series we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve. One of the key aspects of OpenTracing is that it is vendor neutral, and also that OpenTracing is just a specification. In order to instrument an application via OpenTracing API, it’s necessary to have an OpenTracing-compatible tracer correctly deployed and listening for incoming span requests.