Application Performance Management/Monitoring

How Observability Can Improve Gaming
Competing in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly costly. To attract new players, millions of dollars are spent in user acquisition (UA), development and cloud infrastructure. As the space becomes more expensive, ...

Harness Acquires ChaosNative to Meld Chaos Engineering, DevOps
Harness this week announced it acquired ChaosNative as part of a plan to more deeply integrate chaos engineering with DevOps workflows. At the same time, the company added a Harness Service Reliability ...

Survey Sees App Testing More Widely Distributed
A survey of 900 application testing professionals conducted by PractiTest, a provider of a platform for managing testing tools, suggested the number of organizations that have dedicated testing teams is declining at ...

5 Steps to More Sustainable DevOps
The rise of remote workforces, cryptocurrencies and super-sized data centers brings to the forefront a concern in tech development that doesn't get enough attention: The impact of computing and advanced technologies on ...

Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security
Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. This makes it exceptionally challenging to model the behavior of those systems. Our systems are quickly becoming larger and larger, ...

Log Management Challenges Grow With Observability Adoption
It appears that, in many IT environments, observability is becoming too much of a good thing. A global survey of more than 315 IT executives, cloud application architects, DevOps professionals and site ...

Survey Surfaces Observability Challenges in the Cloud Era
A recent cloud observability survey found nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents reported the adoption of public clouds has made it more difficult to achieve observability. Nearly half of respondents (48%) said they ...

TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300 ...

How SREs Benefit From Feature Flags
When you think of who uses feature flags, your mind most likely goes to software developers. In general, feature flags are closely associated with software engineering. But site reliability engineers (SREs), too, ...

Natural Language Query (NLQ) is Key for Self-Service BI
Modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics software solutions offer more ways to explore data and find insights than ever before. However, ensuring everyone in the enterprise can use analytics independently, when they ...

Netlify Leverages GraphQL to Simplify Access to Backend Services
Netlify this week added a Netlify Graph tool to its portfolio that makes backend services available to developers via a single click. The tool aims to simplify DevOps teams' access to those ...

IBM Automation Insights: Improving Observability and App Performance
Observability offers deep visibility into the internal state of complex systems in order to quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues to keep up with customer expectations and business requirements. Observability enables better ...