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Optimizing E-commerce Application Performance (APM) During High-Traffic Holidays!

Everyone within an e-commerce business knows that the stakes are high during peak shopping events such as Black Friday, Christmas, and many other holiday seasons. Periods like these are make-or-break for your revenue. Application performance is the key to success. A slow e-commerce website, stalled transactions, or unanticipated downtime invariably leads to frustrated customers, lost sales, and long-term damage to a brand’s reputation.

7 Myths of AVD Monitoring

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a powerful and increasingly popular solution that allows businesses to provide secure, scalable, and cloud-based desktop virtualization, usually without the overhead of on-prem infrastructure. However, many organizations underestimate the importance of monitoring, leading to performance, compliance, and cost issues. Today, I will debunk several common myths surrounding AVD monitoring and explain why a proactive approach can save you time, stress and billing costs.

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Nerdio

Today I’ll give a brief overview on monitoring and troubleshooting Nerdio, a.NET application, popular with MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and enterprises using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Nerdio is a cloud-based application used by administrators to automate the deployment and management of virtual desktops in Azure.

Understanding Core Web Vitals - Key Metrics for Optimizing Your Website for Better User Experience

Core Web Vitals are a set of performance metrics introduced by Google to help website owners and developers improve the user experience. These metrics are: “Core Web Vitals are a set of real-world, user-centered metrics that quantify key aspects of the user experience.” — Google.

Top Reasons to Move to AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop)

There are a lot of articles along the lines of – “Top Reasons to Move to AVD” or “Top Benefits of AVD”. Having read a fair few, I suspect the Chat-GPT fairies have been hard at work! A veritable mush of phrases such as “flexibility”, “security”, “user experience” and so. Let’s dissect the question – “What are the reasons to move to AVD?”.

Cloud Observability vs Monitoring: A Practical Guide to Go Beyond Cloud-Native Tools

As organizations move their application workloads to the cloud, understanding the difference between cloud observability vs monitoring is crucial to ensure optimal performance and seamless operations. While both concepts are often mentioned in tandem, they serve different purposes, and mastering each can help organizations thrive in increasingly complex cloud environments.

Exception Monitoring in Java - A Guide to Handling Java Exceptions

Exception monitoring in Java plays a vital role in Java application performance monitoring by providing real-time insights into the health and stability of the application. Java is now the backbone of many critical and complex business applications in sectors such as banking, healthcare, finance, retail, and e-commerce. The complexity of these systems is also compounded by the fact that they involve distributed Java microservices that communicate across various layers.

5 Essential Questions for Developing an Effective AVD Monitoring Strategy

Is your AVD monitoring strategy truly effective? As organizations increasingly adopt Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to support remote work, ensuring a seamless and secure user experience becomes a priority. A robust AVD monitoring, and observability strategy is essential to achieve this, allowing you to maintain performance, security, and user satisfaction across your virtual desktops and apps. But where do you start?