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The Serverless Revolution: Why and How The Movement Will Allow Teams to Deploy With More Velocity and Confidence

August 29 2018

The serverless movement has recently received another jolt of momentum with Google’s recent release of KNative. Leveraging some of the hottest technologies including Kubernetes and Istio, KNative raises the bar of serverless by supporting a wide set of platforms including Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift. With such a...

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Microservice Patterns That Help Large Enterprises Speed Development, Deployment and Extension

by Chase Aucion

August 22 2018

This is the first in a two-part series on microservice patterns and anti-patterns. In this article, we’ll focus on some useful patterns that, when leveraged,...

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Managing Software Reliability Metrics: How to Build SRE Dashboards That Drive Positive Business Outcomes

by Joey Phan

August 21 2018

Customers expect your business application to perform consistently and reliably at all times—and for good reason. Many have built their own business systems based on...

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How to Ensure Your Applications Meet Business Goals

by Jake Bloom

August 15 2018

It makes sense that every application you use should provide tangible business value. But IT has long been stymied in proving this is true. Traditional...

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11 Best Practices for Continuous Performance Testing

by Colin Fallwell

August 13 2018

Capturing reliable telemetry on your apps is less about which toolchains you use, and more about using them effectively to automate the processes and techniques...

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Why APM Matters in AWS Lambda and Serverless

by Peter Holditch

August 10 2018

In the last few years, we’ve heard a lot of buzz about cloud strategies. Although it has become something of a buzzword in broader circles, from a technical perspective, the purposes of “cloud” can be boiled down into two objectives: Actively manage as little infrastructure as possible Facilitate change within applications...

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Advances In Mesh Technology Make It Easier for the Enterprise to Embrace Containers and Microservices

by Ravi Lachhman

August 08 2018

More enterprises are embracing containers and microservices, which bring along additional networking complexities. So it’s no surprise that service meshes are in the spotlight now....

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How to Monitor Code You Didn’t Write

by Matt Chotin

August 03 2018

Almost no one writes all their own code. Whether you are an engineer in IT operations or a developer, you are most likely working with...

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How APM Can Support Service Assurance

by Dan McInteer

August 02 2018

I’m a New Zealand-based Senior Sales Engineer for AppDynamics with more than 12 years of experience in the IT sector. I’ve had a lot of...

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Puppet, an Oldie but Goodie: A DevOps Eponym

by Ravi Lachhman

July 19 2018

Calling a software company that was founded in 2005 an “oldie but goodie” might sound a little ludicrous. After all, AppDynamics, founded in 2008, was...

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Why Application Intelligence + Network Intelligence Equals Better Business Outcomes

by Kamlesh Shah

July 13 2018

As more enterprises distribute applications not only between data centers, but also across data centers and multiple clouds, the application footprint is growing in size...

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Tips for Modern Software Testing

by David Hope

July 06 2018

Developers often dream of starting a new code project from scratch, but most have to make do with a legacy project. The best they can...

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