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Bringing "Blameless" to Traffic Court | J. Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches)

What do modern incident analysis techniques and moving violations have in common? This Quick Bite tells the story of taking the same retrospective techniques the most innovative technology companies in the world use to understand their operational incidents... to traffic court, to help us all understand what really happened? What happened next? Come find out!

Coming soon! Raygun Alerting's Microsoft Teams integration

Microsoft Teams is a popular integration request for our Alerting feature, and the Raygun team is busy at work making this feature available to all our customers. We will be notifying all our customers when this feature is available. You are also welcome to keep an eye out for the launch announcement in our Changelog. Since it’s such a popular integration request, we thought we’d share some specs and screenshots with you as we progress through the work.

SOAP vs REST vs JSON - a 2023 comparison

SOAP vs REST vs JSON are comparisons that are frequently made in discussions about web services. While SOAP and REST are both leading approaches to transferring data over a network using API calls, JSON is a compact data format that RESTful web services can use. Deciding whether you should create a SOAP vs REST API is an essential question if you are planning to provide a web service. Each architectural style has its own use cases, benefits, and limitations.

Biggest Mistakes Companies Make When Evaluating & Purchasing APM Software

Most modern companies that offer web or mobile apps use APM at some stage to enhance their growth. APMs help you to understand what's going on inside your app. It helps you know when something breaks, and it also helps you learn how to make sure it doesn't happen again. However, choosing the right APM solution for your product is complex. If you select the incorrect tool, you may discard it because it will not enable you to meet your observability objectives.

How to Improve Your Spotify Adoption

The ecommerce industry is booming. While the pandemic accelerated the need for businesses to digitalize, advancements in technology and the surge in available marketplaces also helped ease buying and selling online. According to Shopify, the ecommerce industry is expected to grow by almost $11 trillion by 2025. Online stores are popping up every day – with an estimated 12-24 million ecommerce sites globally.

Monitoring the AVD Broker

A legacy way to deploy applications and desktops on Azure was often to put some Server 2022 VMs (Virtual Machines) in Azure running the standard RDS (Remote Desktop Services) roles – session hosts, brokers, gateway etc. and then pay the compute costs for your session hosts, brokers, and gateways, set up a public IP address and open ports.

How to Monitor and Troubleshoot Multi-cloud Applications

Multicloud and hybrid cloud applications are deployed on multiple cloud vendor platforms, including on-premises private cloud. While these platforms offer tremendous benefits by providing a reliable and scalable platform for fuelling digital transformation, they also add significant monitoring complexity. Site reliability engineers (SRE) need multicloud monitoring visibility to: Why is this important?