Performance bottlenecks can sneak in and slow everything to a crawl regardless of how advanced your application is. These hidden culprits can turn a seamless user experience into a frustrating one. In this blog, we’ll uncover the most common bottlenecks that drag down complex applications and share proven strategies to identify and resolve them. By the end, you'll have the tools to keep your application running at top speed, regardless of the workload.

For over a decade, we’ve worked closely with AWS to help our joint customers ensure the health and security of their mission-critical applications. That’s why we’re so excited to have recently renewed our Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS and to announce five new AWS competencies across multiple industries.

Monitoring application health is a lot like monitoring your personal health. Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and overall well-being can spot problems before they escalate, helping us maintain good health. Similarly, application health requires constant monitoring of performance indicators like CPU usage, memory consumption, and application response times.

No app is perfect. Even if we try our best to test all possible cases, sometimes things will go wrong. It only takes one failing request to get you in trouble. It’s how we handle it that makes the difference between an application crash and a graceful fail. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of error and exception handling in React apps. We’ll also explore different kinds of errors and best practices for recovering from them in a user-friendly way.

Developers, marketing teams and business owners rely on Oh Dear to monitor their entire website and applications. We offer a feature-packed, all-in-one service with simple pricing - designed specifically for your peace of mind. Oh Dear already has a flexible and powerful notification system and to date has performed over 38 billion checks and sent over 19 million notifications across Email, Slack, MS Teams, PagerDuty, webhook and more.

Kafka is great for handling data at scale, but to get the most out of it, you need to do a little fine-tuning. Think of it like having a high-performance car—yeah, it runs out of the box, but a few tweaks under the hood can really make it fly. Whether you’re looking to boost throughput, reduce lag, or just keep things humming smoothly, these Kafka configuration tweaks are your go-to guide for better performance. Ready to get hands-on?

You’ve likely noticed how some pizza places promise delivery in 30 minutes, or they’ll give you your money back. But what are they really promising? They’re setting a clear performance goal and backing it up with confidence. How do they measure their performance? They track how long each delivery takes. And why do they make this promise? Because fast service is key to keeping their business thriving.

Get a clear understanding of log analytics—what it is, why it matters, and how it helps you keep your systems running efficiently by analyzing key data from your infrastructure.

A Long Animation Frame, often called a LoAF, occurs when your website’s animations take too long to render, slowing down interactions and making your site feel “frozen” or “janky.” And yes, it’s hilarious that it sounds like a loaf of bread—so get ready for plenty of bread, butter, and toasting puns! You might be thinking, “I’m building an online store (or whatever), what do I care about animations? I’m not talking about cartoons.

Maintaining transparent communication about service availability is crucial for businesses of all sizes. Status pages are an important part of your communication strategy during times of outages and maintenance events. You can choose to go with a fully managed status page provider, or host an open-source one yourself. Open source status page providers offer a cost-effective and customizable solution. However, then can come with their own drawbacks.