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6 best practices for application performance monitoring

In today’s digital era, where applications are the lifeline of many businesses, the importance of monitoring and observing their performance is undeniable. It’s not just about keeping systems up; it’s about understanding how applications behave and ensuring they meet the ever-growing expectations of users. Let’s take a look at six best practices in application performance monitoring that organizations can implement to set themselves up for success.

Monitoring your FastAPI application with OpenTelemetry

FastAPI is a modern Python web framework based on standard Python type hints that makes it easy to build APIs. It's a relatively new framework, having been released in 2018 but has now been adopted by big companies like Uber, Netflix, and Microsoft. Using OpenTelemetry, you can monitor your FastAPI applications for performance by collecting telemetry signals like traces. FastAPI is one of the fastest Python web frameworks currently available and is really efficient when it comes to writing code.

Improve Cloud Visibility with JFrog's SaaS Log Streamer

The beauty of deploying SaaS-based applications is that you don’t have to worry about building the infrastructure, hiring engineers to maintain it, staying on top of upgrades or worry about application security. Indeed, these are some of the main benefits you get by using a SaaS offering. However, the world of software is full of trade-offs, so, what do you lose out on?

Elevate Your Shopify Design: 6 Steps to Improve Your Shopify Store Design

As of 2024, there are over 4.8 million live websites powered by Shopify. With a substantial 16.36% of the global e-commerce market share since 2023, Shopify has firmly established itself as a powerhouse in the realm of e-commerce. In the U.S. market, its dominance is even more pronounced, commanding about 28% of the e-commerce software market last June 2023. This impressive growth trajectory highlights Shopify’s effectiveness in providing businesses with the tools they need to succeed online.

How Autodesk engineers better service and own their infrastructure.

Morgan Goose, Autodesk, shares how he and his team have democratized observability and made it a default offering for all their engineers. Autodesk is a global leader in software for people who design and make the world. That includes software for architects, builders, engineers, 3D artists, and production teams. To ensure the best customer experience, Autodesk has partnered with Datadog and is taking advantage of products like DBM to quickly identify and maintain the systems they instrument.
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Ensuring software quality with integration testing

Before the Raygun API limited release last year, we'd been consistently receiving requests for a public API for a long time, to provide a way for our customers to access their Raygun data programmatically. We're now proud to say we're providing a public API with a range of endpoints, but it took us a lot of planning and development to get here! In this post, I'd like to take you back to the beginning of development on our big API project. Specifically, I want to walk through the pivotal decisions we made around testing when we started development on the project, and how (and why) these have paid off.

JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks

JavaScript is bigger than ever, and the ecosystem is nothing short of overwhelming. In this JS toolbox 2024 series, we’ve selected and analyzed the most noteworthy JS tools, so that you don’t have to. In part 1 of this series, we explored the foundations of any JavaScript project: Runtime environments and package management. In part 2, we focused on JavaScript frameworks and static site generators.

16,000+ Github stars, New Design Theme & Front Page of HN - SigNal 33

Welcome to the first SigNal of 2024! It is a year that we’re looking forward to accomplishing great things. We recently crossed 16,000+ GitHub stars as we continue to be amazed by the support of the developer community in our mission of open-source observability. Let’s see what humans of SigNoz were up to in January 2024.