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Top 5 Mobile Application Performance Monitoring Tools

Your app is done and the client is ready to launch! Everything looks great. But how can you ensure that you will achieve your SLA for uptime? How are you tracking revenue growth (& optimizing)? Do you know how many users you have, and what they’re doing at any given moment in the app? What you need is a monitoring platform that will be able to track these different types of data in one place.

How FireHydrant's CI/CD infrastructure fixes bugs faster

Almost everyone knows that working with third-party APIs can be challenging. Sometimes the errors happen unexpectedly. Sometimes the error information that you receive is inaccurate. While most people feel these pains acutely, I’d like to share how we answer these challenges at FireHydrant and how it’s helped us avoid headaches and stress.

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 Wrapup

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 was held on September 1, online. It was the first time the conference was held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. I was excited to attend for a couple of reasons. First, DevOpsDays Chicago is one of the better known and respected DevOpsDays held in the US. I’d never been able to attend it before, so it was great to get the opportunity. Also, I’d been missing the DevOpsDays community.

Kubernetes vs. Docker: What Does It Really Mean?

“Kubernetes vs. Docker” is a phrase that you hear more and more these days as Kubernetes becomes ever more popular as a container orchestration solution. However, “Kubernetes vs. Docker” is also a somewhat misleading phrase. When you break it down, these words don’t mean what many people intend them to mean, because Docker and Kubernetes aren’t direct competitors.

Tutorial: Getting Started with ROS

ROS, the Robot Operating System, is the platform of choice for robot development. However, the breadth and depth of existing documentation can be daunting for the ROS beginner. Where should you start learning about ROS 2 on Ubuntu? All robots based on ROS and ROS 2 are programmed using five simple but core constructs: In this tutorial and associated video we’ll introduce these concepts with simulated robots.

Integrating Sensu Go into your CI/CD pipeline with sensuctl prune

Since the release of Sensu Go, many in our community have told us Sensu is easier and faster to deploy, more portable, and more compatible with containerized and ephemeral environments (as compared to Sensu Core, the original version of Sensu). In a recent webinar, I talked about integrating Sensu Go with your CI/CD pipeline and how to use the sensuctl prune command to keep your Sensu resources in a declarative state, reducing dependence on traditional configuration management tools.

VMware Tanzu Build Service, a Kubernetes-Native Way to Build Containers, Is Now GA

VMware Tanzu Build Service, a completely new way of building and managing application containers for Kubernetes, is now generally available. You can download an evaluation copy on Tanzu Network today and build your first container in just a few easy steps using our guide. Although Kubernetes ushered in a new era of container-based applications with microservices architectures, the way that containers are built and maintained did not evolve much.

Celebrating issue 50 of Performance Matters

When we first launched Performance Matters a year ago, we didn’t just want to surface the performance stories of the big tech companies; our goal was to share and highlight the hard work of thousands of people making software faster. Since then, we’ve delivered over 550 articles, community ideas, tweets, videos, and the occasional comic strip from every corner of the web to your inbox. Here are the 10 most popular articles from all 50 issues of our weekly performance newsletter. Enjoy!

Determining Error Budgets and Policies that Work for Your Team

SLOs are key pillars in organizations’ reliability journeys. But, once you’ve set your SLOs, you need to know what to do with them. If they’re only metrics that you’re paged for once in a blue moon, they’ll become obsolete. To make sure your SLOs stay relevant, determine error budgets and policies for your teams. In this blog, we’ll look at the basics of error budgeting, how to set corresponding policies, and how to operationalize SLOs for the long term.