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Application Performance Monitoring vs Application Performance Management: Understanding the Differences

Ensuring optimal application performance is a Herculean task tee’d up for today’s IT operations teams. Adding to the confusion is the shared acronym of the two most common practices: While the terms are similar, the approaches and use cases are different.

Full-stack observability starts with APM and AppDynamics

How AppDynamics APM, Cloud Native Application Observability and the Cisco FSO Platform can provide a full-stack, holistic view of application performance, user experience, security posture and business impact. Recently, a customer asked me how Cisco’s investment in full-stack observability benefits traditional AppDynamics customers. To answer, first, let’s take a moment to discuss how Cisco AppDynamics fits into Cisco Full-Stack Observability.

Understanding APM: How to add extensions to the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

As an SRE, have you ever had a situation where you were working on an application that was written with non-standard frameworks, or you wanted to get some interesting business data from an application (number of orders processed for example) but you didn’t have access to the source code?

Container Security Fundamentals - Linux Namespaces (Part 3): The Network Namespace

In this video, we continue our examination of Linux namespaces by looking at some details of how the network namespace can be used to isolate a container’s view of network resources, and how this feature can be used for troubleshooting container problems.

How to Get Full-Stack Visibility for Your Java Applications - A Comprehensive Guide

Just a quick blog to let you know our new whitepaper “How to Get Full-Stack Visibility for Your Java Applications” is now available, download it here: How to Get Full-Stack Visibility for Your Java Applications | White Paper (eginnovations.com).

10 Key Application Performance Metrics & How to Measure Them

If you are trying to figure out how to measure the performance of your application, you are in the correct place. We spend a lot of time at Stackify thinking about application performance, especially about how to monitor and improve it. In this article, we cover some of our most important application performance metrics you should be tracking.

The key to secure transmission: TLS in the Raygun ecosystem

As our lives increasingly move online and data becomes the lifeblood of business, secure data transmission is imperative. From personal conversations to financial transactions, from healthcare records to sensitive business data, nearly everything we do online requires trust that our data is protected. And if you’ve ever made an HTTPS request, TLS is behind it, providing that trust.

Thin Clients and their Role in End User Computing (EUC)

A thin client is a simplified device that relies on a separate server (usually located remotely or in the cloud) to run programs and complete user tasks. It connects to the server through a remote network connection with very little computing happening on an individual user’s device. Because most of the computation occurs and data is stored on the server, thin clients are regarded as a secure efficient option.