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Webinar: How Serverless is Changing the Cost Paradigm

-One of the key characteristics of serverless components is the pay-per-use pricing model. For example, with AWS Lambda, you don’t pay for the uptime of the underlying infrastructure but just the number of invocations and how long your code actually runs. This removes the need for many micro-optimizations. As a result, many applications would run at a fraction of the cost if they were moved to serverless.

Using observability to scale AWS Lambda [Live session]

How to utilize observability to optimize your Lambdas for scale and maintain their performance over time - from development to production to scabability. How do you spot potentially slow-running Lambda functions and how do to power-tune them in development? Load testing and how you need a good observability tool for when you do load testing? How to do load testing? How to use observability and make crucial data available in production and at scale? Observability best practices and common mistakes.

Trace AWS event-driven serverless applications with Datadog APM

Last year, we released native tracing for AWS Lambda through Datadog APM to provide deep visibility into serverless functions and surface performance issues such as cold starts and errors, without any added latency. But Lambda functions are only one piece of the puzzle in a rapidly growing serverless ecosystem, which includes message queues, data streams, notification services, and more.

Quick Test Feature

A feature that’s not available in the Monitive service, but has proven to be a useful helper is the ability to quickly check a website from several locations around the world. Just head out to the homepage and type in a website, with or without https://. Press Test Availability and you instantly get an overview of how your website is performing from several locations around the world.

Pinpointing a Memory Leak For an Application Running on DigitalOcean

It can be difficult to track down memory leaks, especially when deploying apps on cloud-based application services. Often teams are left with restarting their apps as the only—and less than ideal—recourse to get them back up and running. So what do you do when your cloud-based app springs a memory leak, and how do you pinpoint the cause? In this article, we’ll create a Java app designed to purposely leak memory and deploy it to DigitalOcean.

Page Load Time in E-Commerce: How to Track and Improve Key Metrics

When you’re in e-commerce, page load time is crucial. Any change you make to your site can affect it, as you’ve probably found out the hard way on several occasions. So you want to make sure your site doesn’t slow down again. Or at least that when it happens, it doesn’t go unnoticed and unaddressed for any longer than it has to. Relax—you’re in the right place. In this article, we’ll examine which metrics to track and improve to keep your site in tip-top shape.

SQL Sentry Tips and Tricks: Monitoring Targets Across Multiple Domains

A frequently asked question when I’m speaking with SQL Sentry customers is, “Can I monitor targets across multiple domains?” The answer to this question is yes. Although there might be specific scenarios in which you’ll want to have multiple SQL Sentry installs, it’s possible to monitor targets across multiple domains through one install (i.e., one centralized SQL Sentry database). There are a couple of different options available to do so.

What Is Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Why Do You Need It?

Imagine you have a hole in your car's tire. To fix it quickly and get on your way, you apply a patch. Then it happens again. You apply another patch. Before you know it, you're driving on the highway and you blow a tire. The risk was always there. You were simply hiding it because you didn't solve the problem. We see this often when it comes to IT issues. Teams take a band-aid approach to fixing problems without addressing the underlying causes.