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Apdex scores focus and align the varying perceptions of different teams. If you ask people in your organization to define what “performance” means for the application you’ve developed and deployed, you’re likely to get different answers. An SRE engineer might argue that a performant application has the highest possible uptime. A designer might say a critical dimension of performance is how easily users can get tasks done thanks to a carefully-crafted UI.

For engineering teams, CI/CD is the key to improving their development cycles. CircleCI is committed to helping our customers optimize their pipelines to streamline delivery to production. If your team values speeding your time to market, commit to trying these 5 best practices. These are CircleCI’s recommendations for cutting your development cycle times and improving your CI/CD processes in general.

Each Avantra version packs powerful features and enhancements that make it even simpler to work with and integrate - leading to better system quality, resilience and compliance. Avantra 21.11.4 lives up to this expectation by offering the new remote Java monitoring support feature.

There is a lot of buzz in the world of machine learning (ML) and as a layperson it can be hard to keep up with it all. Therefore, we decided to write down some of our thoughts and musings on how we are approaching ML at Netdata. We’ll touch on the current state of applied ML in industry in general, and zoom in on ML in the monitoring industry.

Rundeck is an automation tool that helps to make existing automation, scripts, and commands more secure, auditable, and easier to run. It is a software Job scheduler and Run Book Automation system that automates routine processes across development and production environments. It brings together tasks scheduling, multi-node command execution, workflow orchestration. It also logs everything that happens in the system. Squadcast is an end-to-end incident response tool.

Equipment management does not always mean providing maintenance when it is broken. It includes lots of activities that need to be done regularly. However, it becomes quite hectic when there are pieces of equipment in abundance. For equipment managers in the construction industry, it is essential to know which equipment is required at which location. So that, no work operation is halted. This is where equipment management software comes into play!

A multicloud strategy is a necessity for modern businesses, as the recent AWS outages made clear, but managing this infrastructure remains a huge challenge. Infrastructure management teams have long struggled to juggle diverse technology solutions, policies and services to get access to a point-in-time view of their resources. The result is either waste through overprovisioning or huge overheads for nitpicking manual management and repetitive tasks.

There are standalone distributed tracing tools like Jaeger, and there are APM tools that do not provide distributed tracing capabilities. In this article, we will see how distributed tracing complements an APM tool for a holistic performance monitoring experience. Both APM and distributed tracing are critical tools to understand the performance of your applications. And if your application is facing performance issues impacting customer experience, you need to understand what’s causing it fast.

Monitoring is as important as application development to keep an application running healthy for the best user experience. For this reason, a strong monitoring strategy is essential for your company's success, ensuring that metrics such as constant performance, high availability, and accessibility are never a concern. Many businesses neglect the importance of frontend monitoring for their applications.

In a recent episode of the Cloud Happens podcast, Archana Venkatraman, Associate Research Director in Cloud Data Management at IDC Europe talks about how the cloud isn’t a destination. It’s a continuum; a journey. In this blog, we explore that idea a bit more and dive into what really encapsulates a cloud experience. How can modern enterprises benefit from their cloud journey to solve the most gnarly data challenges to unlock innovation, enhance security, and drive resilience.