Application Performance Management/Monitoring
A Blueprint for Securing Software Development
Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these ...
Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk's data collector ...
Why Observability and Monitoring Matter to SREs
Site reliability engineers, or SREs, do many things. They help developers build reliability into applications. They manage SLAs and SLOs. They play a leading role in incident management and incident response. For ...
Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center ...
Top 5 Must-Haves for IaC Automation Tools
These days, there are a lot of different DevOps tools to accomplish a lot of different jobs. Almost daily another startup comes out with a new and innovative product or a newer ...
New Relic I/O Aims to Simplify Instrumentation
New Relic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference launched a New Relic Instant Observability (I/O) initiative through which it is making available open source tools to simplify application instrumentation ...
5 Steps to Succeed With Blue-Green Deployment
By allowing teams to maintain two production-ready environments at the same time, the blue-green deployment technique can significantly boost reliability. But blue-green deployment can also be difficult to execute and manage. Let's ...
Does Shift Left Matter to SREs?
If you’re a software engineer, you’ve likely heard all about shift left, a practice that can streamline certain aspects of software development. But shift left isn’t just for developers. It can be ...
Verica Launches Database for Sharing IT Incident Reports
Verica, a provider of an incident management platform, announced this week it is making available a database to make incident reports publicly available via a single repository. Courtney Nash, senior research analyst ...
Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition
Perforce Software has acquired BlazeMeter from Broadcom as part of an effort to extend the scope of its testing tools beyond the Perfecto tools for testing mobile and web applications it acquired ...
Are ERP-Centric Enterprises Being Left Behind?
Many large enterprise companies are rife with departments that depend on customized ERP software applications. These systems accommodate vital business tasks ranging from inventory management to ordering capabilities to accounting programs to ...
Why an Embedded Analytics Maturity Framework is Essential
Contextual analytics, or embedding analytics directly into a business application’s transactional environment and core workflows, is the most sophisticated stage of business intelligence (BI) currently available to organizations today. It is one ...

