Azure lovers, we have good news for you. Our new years resolution in 2019 is to support the local Azure community. We kicked off with our first Azure Meetup in December. And as the numbers below suggest... people had a great time.

In this blog post we prepared monitoring http/s response times performance via WLSDM Back-End system monitoring features. URLs and URLConnections provide a relatively high-level mechanism for accessing resources on the Internet. Sometimes applications are require lower-level network communication, for example, when you want to write a client-server application.

With the start of the new year, it is a good time to look at what changes have happened in our industry over the last 12 months. With the help of a few recent industry surveys and some of our own perspective, I’d like to summarize some of the key trends that we are seeing.

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.