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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Serverless from Scratch

Openfit is a new fitness streaming service by Beachbody that streams hundreds of thousands of hours of video to tens of thousands of users each month with a 100% serverless architecture. From development to testing and production workloads, Reza Javidi (Director of DevOps & SRE) shares best practices his teams have developed for scaling and securing serverless workloads—both in terms of traffic and development velocity.

Building a Real Time Metrics Database at Datadog

In the course of its eight years of existence, Datadog has grown its real time metrics systems that collect, process, and visualize data to the point they now handle trillions of points per day. This has been based on an architecture combining open source technologies, such as Apache Cassandra, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, with a lot of in-house software for in-memory data storing and querying.

LogicMonitor's vSphere Integration Improves Time to Value and Ops Efficiency

LogicMonitor’s current monitoring coverage for VMware’s vCenter is best-in-class: from a single device in your portal, you can see every component of your virtual environment and their respective performance metrics: hosts, clusters, virtual machines, resource pools, datastores, virtual switches, networks, snapshots, and more.

What is edge computing?

What is edge computing? Do you really want to know? The story of edge computing reminds us how things used to be and how they will be in the future, similar but different. Would you like to know more? This is not a story of passions or revenge, but of common sense. In the IT world, it is all about looking for the practical side of life. But before we start, we should get to know where we are now, don’t you think?

Just-in-Time Access via Secure Remote Consoles: The Right Level of Access for Improved Enterprise Compliance

OpsRamp controls and tracks access to modern hybrid infrastructure with secure remote consoles. Remote consoles help IT pros gain access to distributed resources and execute tasks on the target device/resource. All remote sessions are recorded for playback so that IT teams can use these session recordings for audit compliance, change management, and training.

Why Websites Get Blocked and How to Bypass it

Censorship appears to be increasingly tough not only in countries, which we traditionally view as authoritarian (Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, etc.) but in Western ones as well. It is not uncommon anymore for users from around the globe to find themselves unable to access their favorite resources.

Is Slack Down? What to Do When Productivity Suffers From an Outage

Slack went down and Twitter activity went up, but what did your team do with its downtime? Did you sit and ping your workspace over and over, waiting for the inevitable return? Did you give up and have a coffee? Did you use it to stay productive and get things done? Ok, I’m not your boss and sorry I asked that last question. Maybe if you were not productive it’s because an outage makes it hard to focus.

How Fast is Your Website? Here's How to Figure it Out

How fast is your website, and how does application performance affect the user experience even when small changes are applied? If careful attention is not paid to content delivery and hosting, speed and performance at scale become a full-time task. API latency, performance issues during traffic surges, and third-party services all play a role in general performance.