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8 Emerging Web Development Trends in 2021 and Beyond

What’s trending in web design and development? Like humans, technology also continues to evolve as we find new innovations, doing things faster and make them work flair than they did before. This increasing attention to responsive web design is partly because of the increased usability and the performance it brings to the users. Each year, developers are always discovering new technologies that can keep them in the competition.

Issue Detail Performance Improvements

One of Sentry’s most-trafficked pages is our issue details page, as it helps our customers understand the root cause an error. For those of you who are new to Sentry, we define an issue as a group of similar events. To render the issue details, a significant amount of data needs to be fetched — counts, charts, event details, and other metadata. The two main components on this page are the latest event, and summary statistics.

A closer look at the admin API and plugin for centralized tenant adminstration and control in Grafana Enterprise Logs

To follow up on our introduction of Grafana Enterprise Logs, the latest addition to the Grafana Enterprise Stack, let’s dig into one of the key features: the admin API and admin plugin. Grafana Loki, Grafana Labs’ log aggregation project, provides the underpinnings of Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL).

ITOps In 2 Minutes | What is Product-Led Growth? | Michael Fisher

The OpsRamp IT operations management (ITOM) platform allows you to see everything in your hybrid IT environment, take the right action faster with integrated event and incident management and automate with confidence with AIOps. Learn more about our service-centric AIOps platform. With OpsRamp, you can detect and resolve incidents faster, understand resource dependencies and avoid costly performance issues that result in lost revenue and productivity.

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.