.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. For this post, I will look through advancements in System.Text.Json.

Understanding how real users engage with a web application or website is crucial for the success of any business. Analyzing this data reveals vital insights into user behavior, performance metrics, and the overall experience. However, this vast amount of information can be both a blessing and a curse. While it holds the potential for invaluable insights, it often becomes overwhelming, making it difficult for teams to pinpoint specific performance issues affecting user experiences.

Uptime.com offers Real User Monitoring (RUM) as part of every subscription plan. RUM reporting provides a variety of insights into how users experience your website, packaged in a single report that offers an intuitive snapshot of user experiences. While Uptime.com can provide metrics and monitoring of performance, RUM enables real-time monitoring, collecting metrics that show how users interact with your site and how satisfied they are with its speed and stability.

When your Internet connection starts acting up, it's frustrating, especially when you're trying to figure out whether the issue is on your side or your ISP’s. Identifying and fixing ISP issues can be tricky, but it's necessary to keep your business running smoothly and avoid downtime that hampers productivity.

“What’s really running in prod?” Every engineer will hear these immortal words on a long enough timeline (or career). It might be because a new security zero day was dropped, alerts fired from the depths of a vast microservice architecture, or you might just be looking to know what commit was actually tested. Either way, it often comes with the promise of a stressful day.

With software delivery, speed is everything. But how do you balance rapid delivery with quality, security, and compliance? To answer this question, let’s embark on a journey - one that starts in a software factory to running on the production superhighway.

Like many software teams, here at Kosli we use a continuous delivery approach. This means that every commit to our trunk is automatically built, tested, and deployed to our production-like staging environment. This provides us with the confidence that every build is potentially deployable to production. We use our staging environment to perform final exploratory testing before we deploy to production. Deployments to production are “on-demand”.

Let’s face it: software dependencies are a reality of modern IT environments. Every application relies on other components to work seamlessly, but keeping track of these dependencies can quickly become complex. When they’re managed well, dependencies support smooth operations and keep everything running as expected. But when left unchecked? They can lead to compatibility issues, security risks, and a lot of headaches.

Keeping track of software licenses, usage, and compliance has become vital for businesses of all sizes. Software Asset Management (SAM) tools play a crucial role in ensuring that organizations stay on top of their software assets and avoid overspending or non-compliance penalties. As we explore the best Software Asset Management tools available in 2024, InvGate Asset Management stands out as an efficient and comprehensive solution.

Having interoperable network security is key to protecting your business from a crisis. Here’s why you need it and how your business can achieve it. If cybersecurity isn’t number one on your network team’s list of concerns, it probably should be. According to Forrester, “Two years ago, 63% said they had been breached at least once in the past year.