Digital services and applications have changed human behavior forever. People reach for their phone as soon as they wake up. They ask Alexa to turn on the lights. They tap Sonos to listen to their favorite music on Spotify. During nearly every waking moment of the day, people are interacting with a host of applications […]

If you’re looking to improve user-perceived load times of your web app and need a benchmark metric to gauge your progress, this blog will explain how measuring visual completeness can help focus your efforts on the optimizations that matter most.  But before we delve deeper into the topic of visual completeness, let’s do a quick […]

At AppDynamics, our customers rely on us to deliver comprehensive application performance insights for workloads running in on-premise, hybrid and especially private cloud scenarios. That is why we are thrilled to receive The Independent Software Vendor Agile Partner of the Year Award from Pivotal Software at the 2019 SpringOne Platform conference in Austin, TX. This […]

IT organizations in state and local government and education are always striving to deliver high-quality digital services that offer positive, seamless experiences. That’s why AppDynamics has established its new SLED division—to help SLED organizations understand the connections between application performance, customer experience and business objectives to ensure the end-user has an optimal digital experience. Unparalleled […]

Applications are central to the way companies do business today. The problem businesses face is two-fold: not only is the application essential to the way they compete, but the competitive bar has been raised by the tech giants of the world—Google, Facebook, Netflix, et al.—who’ve evolved as design-led, cloud-native organizations that know how to iterate […]

IT infrastructure management in financial services looks very different from other industries. In this highly regulated space, concerns about security and uptime abound. And with good reason: millions of sensitive monthly — if not daily — transactions means there’s pretty much zero margin for error. And it makes sense. After all, your applications don’t just […]

Common application outage sources have been addressed by implementing Agile, DevOps and CI/CD processes. The resulting increase in system uptime allows site reliability engineers (SREs) to move their focus onto tuning performance, and for good reason. While outage-driven news headlines can cause stock prices to plummet short term, the performance-driven reputation loss is a slow […]

As your enterprise IT infrastructure grows more distributed by the minute, you might know what it feels like to be treading water in an ocean of data. And you’re not alone. For most companies developing and monitoring apps to accommodate increasingly fragmented customer experiences, innovation comes with complexity in the form of fragmented data and […]

In a bid to meet customer demand, businesses today are innovating and scaling in faster, more cost-effective ways than ever before. But with this new scale and efficiency also comes greater operational complexity, reducing visibility across the entire technology stack. As a result, most organizations don’t fully understand the connection between the changes they make […]

“Technology is easy, it’s people who are hard,” says Red Hat technology evangelist Gordon Haff. That certainly seemed to be the case for organizations undertaking a DevOps transformation. Here are three key issues to focus on.  1) You May Fail  Just how difficult is a DevOps transformation? Seventy-five percent of DevOps initiatives through 2020 will […]