There are many things to praise about the Ruby language: adherence to the object orientation paradigm, simplicity, elegance, and powerful meta-programming capabilities. Unfortunately, performance isn’t top of mind when people think about the many qualities of the language.

Google Cloud App Engine is a serverless platform that enables users to develop and deploy applications. App Engine allows developers to focus more on building applications and less on managing infrastructure. Even though you don’t have to worry about maintaining any underlying infrastructure, you do have to ensure that you have enough visibility into App Engine health and performance to proactively prevent downtime.

We know Node.js for its lightning-fast performance. Yet, as with any language, you can write Node.js code that performs worse for your users than you’d like. To combat this, we need adequate performance testing. Today, we will cover just that with an in-depth look at how to set up and run a performance test and analyze the results so you can make lightning-fast Node.js applications.

In a government shutdown all that is considered non-essential stops. As we can see now, renewing the TLS certificates is obviously non-essential. Reportedly, more than 80 TLS certificates have expired, leaving dozens of government-related websites inaccesssible. The Department of Justice, NASA and the Court of Appeals are among the sites that have been affected. Important services have been impacted because of this as well, including payment portals.

You’re typing away on your computer, minding your own business when your application freezes. There’s that moment of panic, maybe the software’s just being slow. But no!! Alas, your window unexpectedly closes, your application has crashed. All of us have experienced this unfortunate event….unless you’re NASA.

AppDynamics’ strong commitment to Guidewire Software has made us an APM vendor of choice for the company and many of its customers.

The simplest machine invented by mankind is the wheel. Practically all civilizations have used it and together with fire we dare to affirm that it is the basis of civilization. Many other machineries use it and it is present in everything that involves movement, to constitute complex machineries, initially operated by us human beings.

We’re super happy to announce some big upgrades to Checkly’s alerting features for 2019 . We listened to what our customers were missing alerting wise and what parts we could polish and upgrade. Two things popped up again and again...