Application Performance Management/Monitoring

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 ...

IBM Shifts Mainframe App Testing to the Cloud
IBM this week revealed it has added the ability to set up testing environments on the IBM Cloud for z/OS mainframe applications. In addition, on March 15, IBM will make available an ...

Dynatrace Advances Application Environments as Code
Dynatrace, at its online Perform 2022 event, launched a bevy of updates to its portfolio that make it easier for DevOps teams to programmatically embed observability and other software intelligence capabilities within ...

Techstrong Research DevOps Radar Report 2022
You can’t control the pace of change; instead, consider that we are in a process of reinvention—both with regard to the way organizations use technology and how vendors position their offerings. At ...

The Evolution of Incident Management
Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that ...

How Stream Processing Goes Beyond Real-Time
How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller's 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the ...

Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, ...

How Does IT Management Govern EverythingOps?
The number of tools engineers use to provision software architecture in the cloud is starting to get a little out of hand. There are many competing ways to do one thing. Most ...

Building a Reliable App Installation Experience With MSIX
Simple, safe, reliable software installs and uninstalls are always best, but getting there isn’t easy. Applications break each other—or even the operating system itself. MSIX, Microsoft’s packaging format, is the newest replacement ...

A Pandemic Side Effect: Rampant Technical Debt
On average, about a quarter of all IT budgets are allocated to handling technical debt each year. And this figure is set to rise, as 68% of organizations say their technical debt ...

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Comes of Age in 2022
The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is still gathering steam across organizations. In January 2022, LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st job with the highest global demand throughout the past five years ...