Application Performance Management/Monitoring
2023 Application Security Budgets on the Rise
A survey of 500 DevSecOps professionals in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters (73%) of organizations plan to increase investment in application security in 2023. The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf ...
Nobl9 Simplifies SLO Identification
Nobl9 today added a Replay capability to its service level objectives (SLO) management platform that makes it simpler to collect the historical data a DevOps team needs to get started. Nobl9 COO ...
Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data
At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, Mezmo launched an Observability Pipeline platform that promises to make it simpler to manage, enrich and correlate machine data. Previously known as ...
Making App Dev More Efficient
Applications of all kinds are continually popping up across various industries to help improve consumer customer experiences, provide entertainment, make certain tedious or error-prone tasks easier for workers and to help businesses ...
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Cisco Unveils 800G Networking Platform to Advance DataOps
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice ...
Of Max and Min: The Non-Interference Prime Directive (for Visibility)
Last issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In ...
Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem ...
Datadog Extends Reach of Integrated DevOps Platform
At its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, ...
New Relic Reports Major Spike in Volume of Log Data
New Relic today shared a report based on anonymized data it collects that showed a 35% increase in the volume of logging data collected by its observability platform. The report also identified ...
Of Max and Min: When Performance Engineering Plans Go Awry
Modern software developers have access to powerful tools and services which allow them to quickly develop, demo and deploy fully functional applications. But what happens when the single-user prototype satisfies all required ...

