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Visualizing Browser Performance with Flame Charts

Learn how to decode flame charts in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for entry-level web developers, this quick guide demystifies the intimidating flame charts found in Chrome DevTools that visualize your browser's main thread activity. Discover how to identify performance bottlenecks by understanding the color-coding system—gray for browser tasks, blue for HTML parsing, purple for layout and paint operations, dark yellow for script compilation, and light yellow for JavaScript execution.

Datadog On Datadog

At Datadog, over 2,000 engineers deploy and ship new features daily. As a leading observability and security platform used by thousands of companies, ensuring quality and reliability is no small feat. Part of our commitment to excellence lies in our dogfooding culture where our engineering organization is one of the largest and most demanding users of the Datadog platform.

Why Monitoring iManage is Critical for Enhancing End-User Experience in Legal Firms

As a Performance Field Technical Consultant working with customers in the legal industry, my primary focus is to ensure that technology enhances productivity rather than hinders it. Legal professionals rely on iManage as a business-critical application for document management, collaboration, and compliance. However, with the increasing shift to the cloud and integration with platforms like O365, ensuring a seamless user experience has become more complex.

How we responded to a 2+ hour partial outage in Grafana Cloud

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, we experienced an outage that lasted approximately 150 minutes and impacted roughly 25% of our Grafana Cloud services. To our customers: we are very sorry and more than a little embarrassed that we stepped outside our own processes and advice to cause this. You rely on us to help monitor and troubleshoot your environments, and this type of incident obviously makes it harder for you to do that.

Combine Fixtures & Page Object Models for DRYer Test Code in Playwright

If you're using Playwright for end-to-end testing or synthetic monitoring with Checkly, you've likely considered reusing your test code across different test cases. A common approach for this is using Page Object Models (POMs). However, if you're like me, you might have mixed feelings about POMs—while they help organize your code, they can sometimes feel cumbersome to set up and maintain.

Escaping the technical debt black hole with APM

Technical debt accumulates when short-term solutions lead to long-term software inefficiencies, increasing maintenance costs, slowing development, and degrading performance. To effectively manage technical debt, teams need full-stack observability, from a high-level application view down to code execution and thread-level analysis. Tackling technical debt ensures long-term software sustainability.