In the era of millennials and Gen Z, there's an app for everything. In fact, Apple trademarked the sentence, "There's an app for that," nearly 10 years ago. Today, with more than 2.47 million apps available across the App Store and Google Play Store, they're not only a convenient and affordable means to access a service; they have become extensions and expressions of ourselves and our personalities.

Constant changes happen in today’s digital world. New versions of applications, databases, middleware, and virtualization technologies are being released regularly – at least once every 6-12 months. Patches and upgrades to operating systems and changes to anti-virus software are being released in weekly cycles rather than months. As DevOps gets adopted on a broader scale, changes to applications will be even more frequent.

As a software developer, you might not be used to thinking about the memory usage of your applications. In today’s development world, memory is plentiful and usually quite fast. Odds are, the programming language you use doesn’t require you to allocate your own memory, or free it when you’re done. That doesn’t mean that you’re in the clear when it comes to memory leaks though. The reality is that memory leaks can strike any application in any language.

When Alaska Airlines deployed AppDynamics, outages were reduced by 60% and mean time to resolution (MTTR) went from hours to less than 10 minutes.

“Script error” is one of the most cryptic error messages you may encounter. The main grievance is it provides no information about the actual cause of the problem. However, this secrecy is not a bug, but a feature that intends to protect your site from malicious attacks.

Apache Tomcat, developed by the Apache Software Foundation, is an open source Java servlet container that also functions as a web server. While over 10,000 websites rely on Tomcat as a web server, a Plumbr of Java application servers showed that over 60% of websites that use Java technology relied on Apache Tomcat to host the business logic. Production environments must be high performing.

Monitoring today is more complex and nebulous than ever before. Teams have to deal with barriers like tooling, data overwhelm, and process problems making it difficult to get a clear line of communication from code to customer. In our Portland Tech Leaders’ event, our seasoned host Scott Hanselman, Partner Program Manager at Microsoft, takes us on a deep dive into how our experienced panel use tools, processes, and agile workflows to overcome these hurdles to create world-class software.