How Distributed Tracing Saves Time and Money
Observability, as the name implies, helps in observing the performance of the application. Observability provides context and actionable insight by merging four forms of observability data: metrics,...
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How Containerized Applications Increase Speed & Efficiency
Most modern applications today are being designed as a set of microservices with each service running as an independent application. This simply implies that one large application is broken down into...
Top Infrastructure Monitoring Tools and Best Practices
As more and more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, the need to align business objectives and end-user experience with IT infrastructure's availability and performance is ever-growing....
The Complete Guide to Microservices
Microservices, also known as microservices architecture, refers to a method of designing and developing software systems. Microservice architecture is becoming increasingly popular as developers...
Monolithic vs. Microservices Architecture: A Side-by-Side Comparison
Microservices have gained a lot of traction in the last few years. Ever since the dawn of time, monolithism -- packaging all your modules into one colossal codebase -- was the default way to go when...
End-User Monitoring: How it Can Impact Your Business
After the global pandemic and lockdowns, most businesses look onward to online solutions for their applications. They want to take their business online by creating mobile or web applications....
What is OpenTelemetry and Why is Scout All In?
What is Telemetry? > the process of recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument And an instrument is: > a device to measure a physical quantity. For the purpose of measuring running...
A Comparison of 6 Airbrake Alternatives
A Comparison of 6 Airbrake Alternatives for Error Monitoring We all need an application that can run smoothly, but this is not what we always get. After creating an application and putting it to use,...
Async Javascript: How to Convert a Futures API to Async/Await
Javascript is a funny language. It claims to be (and very much is) a single-threaded language (i.e., it executes statements in order, one at a time, one after another, in a synchronous fashion)....
How to Identify and Debug Memory Bloat
How to Identify and Debug Memory Bloat Even the systems that run smoothly day and night, can flounder when short of memory. Efficient memory usage has become of utmost importance for software...
How to Monitor Kubernetes Applications
You might have heard the analogy of pets vs cattle in a cloud-native context, the idea is that the old way of maintaining indispensable servers was the pet way of doing things, whereas moving towards...
How to Steer Clear of Application Performance Bottlenecks
We are living in a time where a difference of a mere couple of seconds can make you lose your business to another company with a faster, more easily accessible web application. In such a highly...