In my first blog post of 2023, I wrote about how difficult it seems to be for the average person to set and stick to their New Year’s Resolutions. Stats show that by mid-February, most people’s resolutions have been abandoned and have become a distant memory.
In a significant achievement in digital transformation, APICA has been honored with the prestigious Winter 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award. This recognition comes from Intellyx, the pioneering analyst firm exclusively focused on digital transformation, and the trailblazing vendors spearheading this journey. The Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards are not just accolades; they are a testament to a company’s ability to stand out in an intensely competitive and innovative field.
In the realm of data and complex scenarios, we humans naturally gravitate towards visualizing things as entities with attributes, rather than just raw data. Consider the phrase, “The response time on our Ad Generation service has increased.” It immediately resonates with the audience supporting the service.
Last week, I attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, NV, with 50,000+ others. It was quite a busy week with several keynotes, announcements, and many sessions. While the hot topic at re:Invent was generative AI, I’ll focus my blog post on a few customer sessions I attended around observability: Stripe, Capital One, and McDonald’s.
Most SREs and IT Ops manage Java applications without source code access or communication with AppDev teams. When applications have performance issues those SREs or IT Ops teams deploying and maintaining the infrastructure often have to prove that it is the application at fault and supply information to the app supplier which provides evidence of the issue.