Insights have landed on the RapidSpike platform! One of our most exciting feature updates for 2019, Insights scores your website on a variety of criteria and gives you recommendations on how to enhance your digital ecosystem and improve your overall customer experience.

The forming-storming-norming-performing cycle repeats more often than you might think. Here’s how to navigate each stage with grit and grace.

In today’s software-driven economy, every organization faces an imperative to modernize the way they deliver software in order to adapt and enable the digital era — or perish. Digital transformation across industries is driving the need for IT to enable Cloud-Native applications. This has led enterprises to adopt Kubernetes as the most effective way to support cloud-native architectures and to modernize their applications and IT infrastructure.

Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization platform used to create and run virtual machines on Windows host systems. Hyper-V allocates resources from the physical hosts it runs on to the virtual machines it creates. If those resources are spread too thin, virtual machines may encounter slow performance and startup failures. With our new integration you can monitor the health of every layer of your Hyper-V stack: physical hosts, virtual machines, and all of the applications and services running on them.

While Logz.io provides Kibana — the ELK Stack’s visualization tool — as part of its service, a lot of users have asked us to support Grafana. One of the leading open source visualization tools today, Grafana has some added value when compared to Kibana, especially around visualizing time-series data.

Each year we eagerly await the publication of the RightScale (now Flexera) State of the Cloud report to see which technologies and players are trending in the cloud ecosystem. In this year’s report (2019) one of the interesting takeaways is that in 2018 public cloud spending grew three times faster than private cloud and companies intend to spend almost 25% more on public cloud in 2019 than they did in 2018.

A very useful feature of Grafana is the ability to display dashboards and playlists on a large TV. Documentation on how to do this is sparse, which inspired this tutorial and also led to automating the process.

I’m on the og-aws Slack group, one of the more active groups of AWS developers and cloud practitioners. A member of the channel, Samuell, asked a question about S3, Cloudfront, and new files, and I saw the perfect opportunity to help out, so I offered.

Most Rails developers should be pretty familiar with this work flow: open up a controller file in your editor, write some Ruby code inside an action method, visit that URL from the browser and the code you just wrote comes alive. But have you thought about how any of this works? How did typing a URL into your browser's address bar turn into a method call on your controllers? Who actually calls your methods?

As more enterprises host their applications in the cloud, it becomes increasingly important for application performance monitoring (APM) solutions to ingest performance data pipelines from cloud providers.