This is the first post in a series on the Top Application Performance Challenges. Of the many issues affecting the performance of Java/.NET applications, synchronization ranks near the top.  Issues arising from synchronization are often hard to recognize and their impact on performance can be become significant. What’s more, they are often, at least in […]

I’ve never written a blog post before, but Jyoti tells me, from experience, that if you write about your passion, it’s a piece of cake. So here goes. My passion is to create technology to make application management easier and more productive so that companies can focus on delivering value instead of fretting about just […]

Last week we hosted a presentation by AppDynamics customer, Priceline, along with an informative customer roundtable on application performance. During our roundtable, we polled the audience on their challenges with application performance – we asked questions about their architectures, development philosophies, common performance problems, downtime and visibility. Roughly 100 attendees from companies big and small […]

I recently had a chance to visit the webcast “This Week in Cloud Computing” and share some of my thoughts about cloud trends and application performance management. One thread of the conversation that I found particularly interesting was the discussion of agility in cloud computing. Although this theme comes up from time to time, most […]

AppDynamics recently had the privilege of speaking at the first U.S.-based DevOps event, held at the LinkedIn corporation in Santa Clara. We had some web operations rock stars on hand–including John Allspaw from Etsy, John Willis from Opscode, and Patrick Debois, father of the DevOps movement. But perhaps the true stars of the event were […]

Over the past few days, we’ve shot past 2001 downloads of our free java performance tool, AppDynamics Lite. What does that mean? Well, first and foremost, it’s an excuse to post a picture of the monolith from the movie 2001:Equally as important, perhaps, is that the milestone of 2K downloads in only a matter of […]

How much time will your customers spend on your web site if it slows to a crawl? Will they linger patiently, or will they immediately surf away to a competitor? According to a 2009 research study by Forrester Consulting, 47% of users expect a web page to load in two seconds or less–and 40% will […]

It’s only been a few weeks, but AppDynamics recently reached the benchmark of 500 downloads of our free product, AppDynamics Lite. So far the response has been amazing. Dev and ops alike seem to enjoy having a free tool that they can use to troubleshoot java performance in production–as opposed to having to do everything […]

If you’re thinking about moving to the cloud, you’re not alone. From what we hear, the majority of IT departments are planning to at least take tentative steps into the cloud. They’re enticed by the promise of elastic computing for mission-critical applications, and they want the ability to only pay for what they need. They’re […]

We announced the AppDynamics Lite Edition today, which is available at no charge. It’s the first Java performance troubleshooting tool designed for production environments that can be installed in 2 minutes, and allow people to start troubleshooting problems in less than 15 minutes. To put it another way, this tool provides 80% of the value […]

AppDynamics founder & CEO Jyoti Bansal gave a presentation on AppDynamics to a panel of discerning judges at the Under the Radar event. Here’s a video of the proceedings. Jyoti talked about the value proposition, gave a brief demo of the product, and answered an onslaught of questions from very curious listeners. His presentation starts […]

Many people are confused by the terms “monitoring” and “management.”  This is because only application monitoring solutions have typically been available in the marketplace, so that’s what people are used to seeing.  If a solution comes along that calls itself “management,” buyers don’t necessarily know the difference. AppDynamics has embraced the APM label, but we’re […]

Most people, thankfully, have acknowledged that the cloud is real.  For groups such as development and testing, it’s not only real, but highly successful; we’re seeing our customers and prospects use the public clouds, or build and deploy private clouds at a much more rapid pace than even a year ago. The real question is […]

The debate over who owns an application in production continues to unfurl.  What I’ve found interesting is, after a period of time where writers and bloggers were looking towards IT Operations to be application owners, I’ve started to detect a bit of a backlash. The arguments for IT Operations owning the application is simple: Development […]

I haven’t written a blog post before, but I’m told that writing is easy if you write about your passions. So let me discuss why I founded AppDynamics. I began the company because I saw a gap that I wanted to fill. The world is host to countless thousands of applications, and an almost equal […]