From monolithic architecture to distributed systems and microservices, the art of application development has changed over the years, and the needs for monitoring those applications have evolved with it. Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions now meet the monitoring needs of all applications deployed across various platforms, be it on-premise, cloud, or even hybrid models.
With Linux turning 28 years old, the operating system continues to be the predominant choice for serious computing among IT system developers for a variety of reasons, including its stability, secure nature, flexibility, and speed.
As businesses grow, so do their networks and the challenges that come along with managing them. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), however, tight budgets and fewer resources make it even more challenging for network admins to manually track and monitor all network elements. Without a proper tool in place, even simple issues like poor internet connectivity and network outages can bring down a service.
Website downtime can cause serious damage not only for your reputation and brand image, but also in productivity, all of which leads to business losses. A Gartner survey revealed that website downtime can cost companies up to $5,600 per minute. Recently, the world's biggest online retailer, Amazon, experienced a technical blotch leading to their website being inaccessible for 13 minutes, costing the company around $2 million in revenue losses.
We had a busy 2019 with a substantial number of Amazon Web Service (AWS) integrations into Site24x7, each providing a seamless monitoring experience for our customers. The increasing number of paid AWS monitors is proof that we enhanced the monitoring expectations in 2019. In case you missed any updates about the AWS monitoring platform, here's a year-end review.
In the era of millennials and Gen Z, there's an app for everything. In fact, Apple trademarked the sentence, "There's an app for that," nearly 10 years ago. Today, with more than 2.47 million apps available across the App Store and Google Play Store, they're not only a convenient and affordable means to access a service; they have become extensions and expressions of ourselves and our personalities.
Adoption of hybrid cloud-public cloud services with on-premises resources, is gaining prominence among SMBs and large enterprises alike. This is principally because organizations can still maintain some elements of their enterprise on-premises while running other applications, like the e-commerce front-end in the cloud.
Server admins are tasked with keeping an eye on server availability 24x7 and ensuring all mission-critical applications are up and running; this includes monitoring CPU, memory, and disk performance. It's critical for server admins to understand how to effectively monitor server performance, as well as how to proactively troubleshoot issues.
The new year is fast approaching, and many of us will make resolutions in preparation for 2020. As you make your own personal pledge to change an undesired trait or behavior, or to accomplish a personal improvement goal, take a closer look at some of the changes you can make on the business side of things. Perhaps your organization’s websites could use some improvements of their own.
The networking field is changing quickly with the emergence of new technologies. This change, along with the onset of digital transformation and increasing cloud-adoption, highlights how businesses have realized the importance of the third platform, as it interconnects mobile computing, cloud computing, social media, and information analytics. 2019 has been the year of edge computing and the dawn of the SD-WAN.
