PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating your website’s backend system that can serve webpages, communicate with databases, and exchange data over the internet. A decent backend framework like PHP needs to be capable of providing and processing data in any format (e.g., XML, JSON, etc.) to be socially accepted in a society of skilled web development frameworks.

The Healthchecks.io system status page at status.healthchecks.io recently received a revamp. Here are my notes on the new version. First up, the components section shows the current and historic status of components: Dashboard shows the status of the main website, healthchecks.io. “Operational” state here means the website responds to HTTP requests, and has a working connection to the PostgreSQL database.

With microservices becoming popular, tracing is increasingly more important in debugging production software. In this post, we take you through a step by step guide on setting up Jaeger over Kubernetes with Cassandra storage.

It’s all about User Experience! New release available for MetrixInsight for CVAD. A CITRIX® Ready SCOM Management Pack for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. We have included some new important metrics to measure User Experience for Citrix based SBC/VDI: Session Round Trip Time, also known as ICA Round Trip Time (ICA RTT).

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a collection of Google’s computing resources, made available via services to the general public as a public cloud offering. The GCP resources consist of physical hardware infrastructure — computers, hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and networking — contained within Google’s globally distributed data centers, where any of the components are custom designed using patterns similar to those available in the Open Compute Project.

In this article we are going to explain Jaeger integration with the OpenTelemetry collector, describe differences between these two and have a look at Kubernetes deployment via Jaeger Operator. OpenTelemetry collector is a vendor-agnostic service for receiving, processing and exporting telemetry data. In the Jaeger project we have decided to deprecate the Jaeger collector and migrate its functionality to an implementation based on OpenTelemetry collector.