Application performance is critical for a seamless user experience, but all too often, developers find themselves struggling to pinpoint slowdowns. Understanding the root cause is the first step to diagnosing and solving performance issues. In this article, we’ll explore six common root causes of application performance slowdowns and share actionable advice on how to fix them. We will also show how platforms like Sentry can help uncover, trace, and debug these issues faster.

At ScienceLogic, we’re dedicated to leveraging innovation to enhance customer satisfaction. Our mission is to transform the complexity of IT operations into a streamlined and straightforward workflow, empowering our customers to focus on what matters most. We’re thrilled to see this commitment recognized with the 2025 TrustRadius “Buyer’s Choice” Award (formerly the “Best of” Awards), a distinction we previously received in 2022 and 2023.

Recently, a public dispute erupted between WordPress and WP Engine, one of the most popular managed WordPress hosting platforms. The disagreement centers around WP Engine’s use of the WordPress brand, licensing concerns, and differing views on managing the open-source platform. This fallout could impact WP Engine customers especially those who rely heavily on WordPress for their sites.

Every organization relies on mission-critical applications and services that ultimately generate revenue, so the user experience has never been more important. Companies trust their developer and operations (DevOps) teams to ensure important applications run smoothly. DevOps teams, in turn, trust application performance optimization tools to quickly identify and resolve issues or avoid them altogether in the first place.

Grafana has grown to become one of the most prominent dashboarding tools available, with an extensive set of features that support organizations of all sizes. There can come a time, however, when you have too many dashboards. As a software engineer, you might think, “Why can’t I do with dashboards what I do with my code?” That is, you know how to keep your code in version control (e.g., Git). You know how to share and review your code with colleagues (e.g., pull requests).

Organizations are seeing measurable benefits from investing in observability, including faster issue resolution, cost reduction, and improved business outcomes. However, challenges still remain, including rising costs, tool fragmentation, and the need for more comprehensive monitoring of internet dependencies and user experience. Let’s explore these challenges and the best practices organizations are adopting to address them.

Ensuring scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness is a constant challenge for cloud-native log management and observability. At Sumo Logic, we faced this challenge head-on by transitioning from a stateful, Lucene-based architecture to a completely stateless, Parquet-based architecture. This transformation lets us improve data storage efficiency, streamline operational complexity, and meet the demands of an ever-increasing data scale.

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map, a public service that uses Kentik Synthetics to continuously measure latency between the regions of the biggest cloud providers.

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. In this post, I'll look at two new LINQ methods: CountBy and AggregateBy.

Since its inception in 2004, Lansweeper has been at the forefront of helping businesses understand, manage, and protect their IT devices and networks through a powerful IT asset management platform. As the platform grew from an on-premises solution to a cloud-based SaaS offering, Lansweeper expanded its reach to a global, multi-region customer base.