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Top 10 Reasons Why eCommerce Apps Will Fail This Black Friday

October 14 2013

My wife is a shopoholic and serial checkout killer. Every week she spends several hours browsing and carefully adding items to shopping carts. Every now and then she’ll interrupt my sports program with an important announcement “My Checkout just failed”. Take this example Mrs Appman sent me during the month...

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How I failed my company as a monitoring architect.

by Jim Hirschauer

October 03 2013

I didn’t realize it until recently but now I know that I failed one of my previous companies when I was their monitoring architect. It’s...

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Common Application Problems and How to Fix Them: The Select N + 1 Problem

by Dustin Whittle

September 13 2013

At AppDynamics we get the opportunity to see the inner workings of a lot of applications. While these applications all seem pretty different to their...

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Apdex is Fatally Flawed

by Jim Hirschauer

September 10 2013

I’ve been looking into a lot of different statistical methods and algorithms lately and one particularly interesting model is Apdex. If you haven’t heard of...

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Percentiles Made Easy

by Jim Hirschauer

September 05 2013

Performance monitoring comes in all different shapes and sizes but the end goal is the same. Performance monitoring tools exist to help ensure a fast...

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AppDynamics X: Announcing Mainframe Support with MEAS Integration

by Dustin Whittle

August 12 2013

Often times big enterprises have difficulty keeping pace with changes in technology. This means more often than not operations teams are responsible for legacy systems and are constrained by the monitoring tools that were built to support those legacy systems. Just because your technology hasn’t changed in decades, however, doesn’t...

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Faster and Better On-Boarding for MSPs

by Jim Hirschauer

August 01 2013

Managed Service Providers have a big task these days. A few years ago applications were much less complex and understanding those application architectures and dependencies...

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My Top 3 Automated Tasks for Finding and Fixing Problems

by Jim Hirschauer

July 26 2013

Automation sets apart organizations at the top of their game from the rest of the pack. The limiting factor in most organizations is that they...

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Monitoring the Real End User Experience

by Tom Levey

July 25 2013

Web application performance is fundamentally associated in the mind of the end user; with a brands reliability, stability, and credibility. Slow or unstable performance is...

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It is only libel if it is not true!

by Dustin Whittle

July 08 2013

Today was another glorious day at AppDynamics HQ. We received yet another cease and desist letter from our friendly competitors at CA, Inc. It turns...

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The Poor Misguided CMDB

by Jim Hirschauer

May 17 2013

It’s not an exciting or glamorous subject but it’s an absolutely critical concept for properly managing your applications and infrastructure. CMDB, CMS, SIS, EIEIO (joking)...

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