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Using the Beacon API

Users are so annoying! There they go, leaving the page before we can save the data to the API. Back in the old days, we would attach a `window.unload` handler and try to send an AJAX request, but this was slow and unreliable. Enter the Beacon API to give us a better way. The Beacon provides a reliable way to send a small amount of data *after* the page has been unloaded. It's not bound to the lifetime of the page and it doesn't slow down the user.

#ITConnections - Battle for Bandwidth

The load on cloud-based applications is at an all-time high, with people working from home accessing the same resources, simultaneously. Daytime Internet usage skyrocketed 34.4% between the regular working hours of 9AM-5PM as a result of remote work. A large portion of that online traffic accounted for video conferencing and collaboration tools. Microsoft saw a 34% increase usage of Teams while Skype reported 59 million daily active users and 4.3 million on Zoom.

How to Extract Actionable Intelligence With C# Logging

When applications are deployed in the production environment, developers expect them to work smoothly without any performance issues. However, applications often experience unexpected bottlenecks, making it crucial to monitor applications. One of the simplest ways to monitor a C# application is to emit, save, and index log data for search, analysis, and troubleshooting. We’ll discuss how you can monitor your applications while making the most of C# logging.

JFrog CLI Completes You

JFrog CLI now supports autocomplete for both bash and zsh, allowing you to get your work done faster. With this functionality, you can now simply start typing your Bash and zsh commands and the CLI client will provide you with possible options to use. You can scroll through the options using tab. JFrog CLI helps simplify your automation work with the JFrog solutions. For example, using CLI with JFrog Distribution workflows to manage your software releases in a centralized platform.

4 Tips for Staying Sane in a Work From Home Environment

With every personality assessment I’ve taken, it turns out I’m a scary amount extrovert. I enjoy being around people, I de-stress by being with people, and I rarely spend time alone. My work environment changed drastically amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, where I found myself working from home entirely and my social life becoming non-existent (hooray social distancing!). In the time I’ve spent alone, here are a few things that have helped me stay sane while working remotely.

Dashbird's Lessons Learned from Launching a SaaS Application

From the development and operations side, launching a new software application can be quite challenging. Deciding which tools to use, how to organize the task pipeline, managing collaboration among team members, monitoring performance and potential issues after launch, etc. It’s not easy to get it done right. Dashbird recently went through all of this. Behind the scenes, our amazing development team worked really hard to overcome all challenges and deliver the best value to our users.

Challenges Monitoring ReactJS Applications

ReactJS combines the speed of JavaScript with unique rendering capabilities to make applications that are highly dynamic, performance oriented, and responsive to user input. State of JS report 2018 cites performance as the major reason ReactJS has gained so much popularity in such a short time. When it comes to options for building single-page applications (SPAs), React delivers performance advantages over Angular and other JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

Monitoring a Pulse Oximeter with InfluxDB - A Parent's Perspective

This article was contributed by Michael Hinkle, Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments. My name is Mike Hinkle, and I use InfluxDB to monitor my daughter’s pulse oximeter and to better understand her overall health. Through my career as an engineer, currently at Texas Instruments, I was aware of time series databases and I love to play with various technologies.

Migrating your Splunkbase App and Users to Splunk 8.0

Earlier this year Python 2 entered End of Life — and Splunk has already released versions of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise that provide a Python 3 runtime. As the developer of an app that is published to Splunkbase, if your app contains Python code, you need to update it to work with Python 3 and Splunk Enterprise 8.0 by July 1, 2020 as the Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud releases after that date will no longer support the Python 2 runtime.