March Launch Notes: First paint metrics, Ruby APM release, and more
Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular round-up of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month — from significant features to performance updates.
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Announcing new-look notifications for Slack
We’ve had a lot of great feedback about our integration with Slack. Customers find it invaluable to have all the information about an error or issue delivered to a channel of their choice. Using Raygun Crash Reporting or APM and Slack together, everyone involved is alerted to a problem, and an indication of the cause can be ascertained immediately. The appropriate person can then be assigned to complete the investigation and resolve the error or issue pronto.
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Database performance improvement - How-to in 4 easy steps
During development, it's important to think about how your application will work with your databases. You can run into performance issues all the way through the stack, so you'll want to be mindful of how the data is being accessed. From the client to the database, there are layers where trouble may creep in.
Top tips to improve JavaScript performance for faster websites
Performance is one of the most important concerns when developing an application. All software developers should monitor and improve performance in every layer of the application. From the database to the server-side language, there are plenty of opportunities for performance issues to arise, and the front end is certainly no exception. So that’s why today we’re talking about JavaScript performance and how to improve it.
Benchmarking web performance: An actionable guide using Real User Monitoring
Customer experience is becoming a key differentiator between competitors. Actually, it already is! If your website is performing poorly, it’s hurting your business. The first step towards improving this performance is using a real user monitoring tool to identify problems and monitor your progress towards improvement.
Announcing: First Paint Metrics and Advanced Visualizations
Since Real User Monitoring first launched in 2015, Raygun has helped thousands of teams identify and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks impacting their customers. Today, we’re excited to announce support for first paint and first contentful paint, along with rich new visualizations designed to help you better identify and diagnose performance problems in your software.
6 tips for preventing performance headaches in retail apps
Are you still thinking about last year’s software performance headaches? You aren’t alone. Even large-scale retail apps experience preventable problems like broken payment buttons, and every year we hear of another retail giant that is unable to cope with traffic spikes on Black Friday – a $3 billion e-commerce day. Luckily, many of these software problems can be prevented. We’ve put together a few tips for maintaining performant retail apps so you can be ready for anything.
January Launch Notes: First paint preview, provider updates, and more
Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular round-up of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month — from major features to performance updates. With the release of our new first paint and first contentful paint metrics for RUM, you’ll be able to get a more granular understanding of how users experience your application. We’ve already started the beta, and we will be releasing the feature in the next few weeks. Watch this space!
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JavaScript unit testing frameworks in 2020: A comparison
When starting development on a new front end project, I always ask myself "Which JavaScript unit testing frameworks should I use?" My colleagues often write about how unit tests are great for peace of mind and reducing software errors. So I always make the time to test. But which framework should you choose for your project? Before rushing into any decisions, I investigated seven of the most popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks so you can decide which one is best for you.
Memory leak detection - How to find, eliminate, and avoid
As a software developer, you might not be used to thinking about the memory usage of your applications. In today’s development world, memory is plentiful and usually quite fast. Odds are, the programming language you use doesn’t require you to allocate your own memory, or free it when you’re done. That doesn’t mean that you’re in the clear when it comes to memory leaks though. The reality is that memory leaks can strike any application in any language.