With the start of the new year, it is a good time to look at what changes have happened in our industry over the last 12 months. With the help of a few recent industry surveys and some of our own perspective, I’d like to summarize some of the key trends that we are seeing.

There are many things to praise about the Ruby language: adherence to the object orientation paradigm, simplicity, elegance, and powerful meta-programming capabilities. Unfortunately, performance isn’t top of mind when people think about the many qualities of the language.

We’ve been busy updating the GrafanaCon LA website, with additional speakers and are adding more every day, so please stay tuned. Don’t miss your chance to get your ticket. We also have tons of plugin updates to share this week and 2 brand new plugins to check out.

Google Cloud App Engine is a serverless platform that enables users to develop and deploy applications. App Engine allows developers to focus more on building applications and less on managing infrastructure. Even though you don’t have to worry about maintaining any underlying infrastructure, you do have to ensure that you have enough visibility into App Engine health and performance to proactively prevent downtime.

We know Node.js for its lightning-fast performance. Yet, as with any language, you can write Node.js code that performs worse for your users than you’d like. To combat this, we need adequate performance testing. Today, we will cover just that with an in-depth look at how to set up and run a performance test and analyze the results so you can make lightning-fast Node.js applications.

Properly utilizing and thoroughly analyzing your event logs is one of the cornerstones of IT security. Today, cybersecurity is more important than ever and is an entire growing industry all in itself, with the global cybersecurity market estimated to reach almost $250 billion value by 2023.