Bob Hartley, Principle Engineer from Family Search Family Search’s distributed platform generates over 1.5 terabytes of data every day, servicing a user base of 3 million (and growing). Furthermore, Family Search’s application environment is highly dynamic, with code release cycles as short as 40 minutes. In this session Bob will discuss common challenges associated with […]

Ariel Tseitlin, Director of Cloud Solutions, Netflix As an early adopter of many cloud technologies and the record-holder of the largest public cloud deployment, Netflix is often seen as a leading innovator in cloud computing. In this session Ariel will discuss the key drivers, challenges and design principles behind Netflix’s journey to the cloud. Ariel […]

Having Fun With DevOps In light of all the hype, we have created a DevOps parody Series – DevOps: Fact or Fiction.  For those of you who did not see, in October we created an entirely separate blog (inspired by this) – however decided that it is relevant enough to transform into a series on the AppDynamics […]

Here at AppDynamics we’re very proud of how easy our solution is to deploy and maintain. We also tout the fact that in many cases there is no configuration required to gain the insight needed to solve complex application problems. All of this is absolutely true, but does it mean that AppDynamics doesn’t have enough […]

A week has passed since Black Friday, so I thought it would be a good idea to summarise what we saw at AppDynamics from monitoring one of several e-commerce applications in production. Firstly, things went pretty well for our customers who experienced between 300 and 500% increase in transaction volume over the holiday period on […]

Welcome back to my series on Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In Part 5: Alerts – Storm of the Century … Every Week! we explored just how important it is to your business to implement alerts the right way. This week we’ll take a look at one of my favorite aspects of deploying APM properly […]

Edmunds.com, the leading online automobile resource, is in the fast lane to achieve $1.2 Million in savings using AppDynamics to monitor their web application performance. John Martin, Senior Director of Production Engineering, opens up about his road trip through managing application performance.  Martin’s operations team was able to reach goals and destinations that were not […]

Welcome back to my series on Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In Part 4: Path of the Rockstar, we discussed how to deploy your new monitoring tool and get maximum value from your time and monetary commitment. This post will cover one of the most important aspects of monitoring: alerting. This is the topic that […]

Welcome to Part 4 of my series Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In the last installment we covered how you find, test, and justify purchasing an APM solution. This blog will focus on what to do after you’ve made a purchase and started down the path of deploying your coveted APM tool (ahem, ahem, AppDynamics, […]

Welcome back to my series on Deploying APM in the Enterprise. In Part 2 we discussed APM maturity from an unusual perspective as maturity models go. In this blog we are going to discuss the process of getting what you want and need in the way of an APM product. Warning – This is an […]

Application Performance Management (APM) solutions have been around for just over a decade. Unfortunately due to their high price tag the only organisations who benefited from APM in the last decade were large enterprises that had millions to spend. Today, things are a little different with solutions like AppDynamics who are changing the game so […]

Welcome to Part 2 of the series “Deploying APM in the Enterprise“. In Part 1 I provided some background on what this series is all about and why you should continue reading. Part 2 will provide more foundation and my take on APM maturity. This will not be one of those boring theoretical maturity models […]

It’s interesting as a parent watching your kids grow up and learn how to do things for themselves. I have 2 boys ages 6 and 7 and they often amaze me and confound me. There are times when I think they are absolutely brilliant and other times where I think that significant amounts of remedial […]

If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase “We used to throw hardware at performance issues”–well, I wouldn’t be writing this blog; I’d be sitting on a beach somewhere in Hawaii, retired with millions in the bank and suffering from an addiction to tequila and nachos. Hardware over the years has […]

Introduction If you already know what APMaaS is then feel free to skip to the next paragraph. For the rest of you, APMaaS is Application Performance Management as a Service. It is an offering that provides end user experience monitoring, application component discovery, transaction mapping and tracking, deep application diagnostics, and analytics all working together […]