When building a production application, you are usually on the lookout for ways to optimize its performance while keeping any possible trade-offs in mind. In this post, we’ll take a look at an approach that can give you a quick win when it comes to improving the way your Node.js apps handle the workload. An instance of Node.js runs in a single thread which means that on a multi-core system (which most computers are these days), not all cores will be utilized by the app.

In a previous life as an Android developer, a customer reported a nasty bug that we didn’t know how to fix. After what felt like countless hours of debugging and writing back and forth to customer support, our only option left was to get our hands on the users’ local database. However, for a variety of reasons, we couldn’t ask the customer to root the device, copy the database, and send it to us.

Founded in 1866, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public research university with its main campus spread across 2,600 acres in Durham, New Hampshire. For more than 154 years, UNH has delivered hands-on learning, research, and work experiences that bring together students, faculty, and private and public partners to create life-changing opportunities and innovative solutions across the world.

Auto-instrumentation is a subject I have not had much experience with. Here at Grafana Labs, we primarily develop in Go, which doesn’t afford such luxuries. However, there is an enormous amount of interest from the community in Java auto-instrumentation, so I set out to determine what was possible using the shiny new OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation libraries.

Are you suffering from overspending in Azure, lack of cost visibility and lack of context? You’re not alone; Azure cost management is a problem we hear about time and time again. That is why we created top-notch cost tiles that would allow users to build the perfect Azure cost dashboard, and help them quickly identify overspends and expensive resources in their Azure tenant.

StatsD is an industry-standard technology stack for monitoring applications and instrumenting any piece of software to deliver custom metrics. The StatsD architecture is based on delivering the metrics via UDP packets from any application to a central statsD server. Although the original StatsD server was written in Node.js, there are many implementations today, with Netdata being one of them.