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The latest News and Information on Application Performance Monitoring and related technologies.

The Top New Relic Competitors

Platforms like New Relic simplify enterprise cloud complexity, accelerating digital transformation, and simplifying cloud management. Their company serves over 10,000 businesses worldwide with AIops, distributed tracing, browser monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and synthetic monitoring solutions. As a result of New Relic's lack of onboarding support, some engineers have complained about burnout while implementing the solution.

When Cloud Native Stacks Misbehave - Pitfalls and Lessons Learned | Itiel Shwartz (Komodor)

In this session, Itiel Shwartz will demonstrate common failure scenarios - both app and infra related. We will laugh a little and cry a little, and then cover monitoring, observability & troubleshooting best practices methodologies such as metrics, distributed tracing, logging, network visualization and more. But cheer up! We’ll wrap up by introducing some helpful tools, in order to find and fix issues as fast as possible.

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.