Monitoring Kubernetes performance at scale presents many challenges. We're very excited to introduce the AppDynamics Cluster Agent, which is purpose-built to efficiently gather monitoring data from your clusters.

In current development, Object Oriented Programming has proven more popular than its predecessor Functional Programming. Functional Programming was developed before Object Oriented Programming, with support for Lisp, Clojure, Wolfram, Erlang, Haskel, F#, and R. Object Oriented Programming is more modern with support for C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby. PHP, Perl, Objective-C, Swift, and Dart.

Each year there comes a time to look forward and think about next year and maybe even further. This can be a daunting task, especially in the fast-changing IT industry. Luckily, Gartner prepared a list of the top 10 technologies that will drive the future of Infrastructure and Operations up through 2024. This list might come in handy when you’re preparing your 2020 roadmap and beyond.

The Apache Tomcat software is an open-source implementation of the ava Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. Tomcat is often used as a backend application server that connects to other web-facing servers like Apache and Microsoft IIS. Tomcat also includes its own native HTTP connector that allows it to be used as a standalone HTTP server.

Our journey of Icinga integrations continues – we’re announcing the general availability of the Icinga Module for Jira v1.0 today! Jira is a ticketing system created by Atlassian and it’s one of the most popular ones of its kind. Jira is used by a very diverse audience: Developers, Managers, SREs, Systems Engineers and everyone else who needs to keep track of issues and projects.

Back in the good old days of monolithic applications, most developers and application owners relied on tribal knowledge for what performance to expect. Although applications could be incredibly complex, the understanding of their inner workings usually resided within a relative few in the organization. Application performance was managed informally and measured casually. However, this model falls apart in a microservices world.

Today on the blog we feature a conversation with Jonathan Reichental, an award-winning former CIO who now travels the world to speak, teach, and consult on emerging trends including the fourth industrial revolution, urban innovation, the future of cities, and blockchain technology. We got his take on cloud adoption and digital disruption in government.