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5 Easy Ways to Improve Site Speed

When it comes to loading time, every second counts. In fact, studies show people will never return to your site if it takes longer than a couple of seconds to load. Site speed should be high on your list of performance improvements. On the internet, you really do only get one chance to make a first impression. That’s why speed testing is so important, but it shouldn’t stop at the development phase. Site speed should be continually monitored every step of the way.

Top 3 AWS Lambda Performance Monitoring Tools

Serverless is often described as the abstraction to end all abstractions. VMs and standalone containers pale in comparison stateless functions. That pristine distinction between the application’s code and its stateful data is something we all dream of. Scalability, observability and high availability can now be realized on a global scale.

Alert fatigue, part 3: automating triage & remediation with check hooks & handlers

In many cases — as you’re monitoring a particular state of a system — you probably know some steps to triage or in some cases automatically fix the situation. Let’s take a look at how we can automate this using check hooks and handlers.

6 Ways to Avoid the 'Swivel-Chair' Effect

When an incident occurs, do you shudder when either you or your team proceed to open multiple browser tabs for each of your monitoring tools? This is the picture painted by the “swivel-chair” effect, context-switching between tools to gather information needed to determine a path of resolution.