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The holiday season is here, and with it comes the yearly surge in online shopping traffic. If you're a software developer working for an e-commerce company, you're likely gearing up for the busiest time of the year. Keeping your application smooth, fast, and error-free during this high-pressure period is essential to ensuring a stellar customer experience. Luckily, if you're already using Raygun, you've got the tools to stay on top of it all! To help you be prepared, we've compiled three practical tips for using Raygun to keep your site running like clockwork-no matter how many shoppers hit your platform.

With every webpage loaded, email sent, or video streamed, network traffic takes a complex journey across multiple infrastructure nodes. From the device to the destination, data packets travel across various gateways, networks, through routers, switches, and service providers along the way. Understanding the network traffic paths and segments along the journey reveals much about performance, latency, congestion, and possibly even bottlenecks. In this article, we'll delve into the interconnected, intricate routes, network traffic takes.