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Part I: How not to structure your database-backed web apps

Most scientific papers are unlikely to change your day-to-day approach as a Rails web developer. How not to structure your database-backed web applications: a study of performance bugs in the wild Yang et al., ICSE’18 is the exception to that rule. This study examined 12 popular, mature, opensource Rails apps for ActiveRecord performance anti-patterns. And boy, did they find some issues.

Watchdog: Auto-detect performance anomalies without setting alerts

With anomaly detection, outlier detection, forecasting, and composite alerting, Datadog enables you to reliably alert the right people at the right time. But what happens when latency starts to increase, or error rates spike, in areas of your application where you haven’t set alerts? That’s what Watchdog is for.

Introducing APM Trace Search & Analytics with infinite cardinality

Distributed tracing provides a detailed view into application performance. Each trace shows you how an individual request was executed in your app: which user did what, which services were involved, how long it took, and whether the request executed successfully. Capturing that level of detail across hundreds or thousands of services provides a vast trove of information for troubleshooting and performance optimization, but it’s not always easy to find the exact trace events you need.

How Slow App Performance Can Impact Your Bottom Line

You’ve delivered your product, application, or website. You’re seeing some traffic and even some conversions. But something is holding you back. Could it be speed? In today’s world of limited patience and shortened attention spans, you have to make sure that you’re giving your customers the enjoyable experience they need to stick around.

NiCE Solutions on Micro Focus ITOM Marketplace

Modern IT Operations Management tools bridge the gap between traditional IT, the new digital enterprise and fast-paced new business initiatives in a straightforward way. The Micro Focus ITOM Marketplace is the place to go, when it comes to using Micro Focus Operations Manager (OM) and Operations Bridge Manager (OBM). It assembles all ITOM solutions and third party integrations currently available on the market.