Why End User Experience Monitoring Is Critical for IT Success
End user experience monitoring is one of the key capabilities of an end-to-end application performance management solution. By tracking every transaction in the customer’s journey, IT professionals can...
View ArticleA Day in the Connected Life of the Internet of Things
Applications have become the lifeblood of today’s businesses. Gone are the days when you had to pay bills by mail, or walk inside a bank branch to transfer money. And hailing a rideshare requires just...
View ArticleIs Serverless the New Mainframe?
A few years ago at the DevNexus developers conference in Atlanta, I was chatting with a few former colleagues over dinner. As an avid fan of the HBO show Silicon Valley, as well as a technologist...
View ArticleSuccessfully Deploying AIOps, Part 3: The AIOps Apprenticeship
Part one of our series on deploying AIOPs identified how an anomaly breaks into two broad areas: problem time and solution time. Part two described the first deployment phase, which focuses on reducing...
View ArticleSuccessfully Deploying AIOps, Part 2: Automating Problem Time
In part one of our Successfully Deploying AIOps series, we identified how an anomaly breaks into two broad areas: problem time and solution time. The first phase in deploying AIOps focuses on reducing...
View ArticleSuccessfully Deploying AIOps, Part 1: Deconstructing MTTR
Somewhere between waking up today and reading this blog post, AI/ML has done something for you. Maybe Netflix suggested a show, or DuckDuckGo recommended a website. Perhaps it was your photos...
View ArticleWhy Your Business Needs a ‘Wrapper’ to Transform Itself
How do you treat your most precious items? Chances are you wrap them up nicely to protect them for longevity. Since your applications are the most precious items to your business, consider wrapping...
View ArticleHow Full Cycle Developers Can Avoid the ‘Fog of Development’
As software engineers, we strive to hone our craft and learn new skills. And with a revolution underway in how we deliver and maintain the platforms we create, these character traits are particularly...
View ArticleIntern Spotlight: Exploring Flash-Based Cache for the Data Platform Team
I interned with the Data Platform team at AppD’s Bangalore office in 2018. The team is responsible for ingesting and storing the metrics sent by agents running on client servers. They process millions...
View Article3 Common Application Performance Bottlenecks—And How to Avoid Them
Optimizing application performance today is far more complicated than it was a decade ago. Changing technology, user behavior, and consumer expectations have all brought new opportunities—and...
View Article10 Unwritten Lines of a Technical Job Description
There’s a time in everyone’s career when they are new starting a new job. During this time, everyone wants to make a positive first impression, feel confident, and be successful. To ensure that we...
View ArticleNine Essential Skillsets for Competitive Digital Transformation
Large and midsize enterprises successful at competitive transformation have one characteristic in common: careful team-building around both soft and technical skills. Let’s examine how you should think...
View ArticleGartner Report Reveals Why Your APM Strategy Needs AIOps
Is application performance monitoring (APM) without artificial intelligence a waste of resources? It turns out, the answer may be yes. Gartner’s newly released report, Artificial Intelligence for IT...
View ArticleHands Off My Docker Containers: Dynamic Java Instrumentation in Three Easy Steps
Many AppDynamics customers have challenges with modifying startup scripts or updating images in order to inject Java agents, especially in a containerized environment. Other customers might not want to...
View ArticleAIOps: A Self-Healing Mentality
The first time I began watching Minority Report back in 2002, the film’s premise made me optimistic: Crime could be prevented with the help of Precogs, a trio of mutant psychics capable of...
View ArticleHow Top Investment Banks Accelerate Transaction Time and Avoid Performance...
A complex series of interactions must take place for an investment bank to process a single trade. From the moment it’s placed by a buyer, an order is received by front-office traders and passed...
View ArticleHow to Overcome 4 Common Challenges of Kubernetes Monitoring
Kubernetes (K8S) now seems to be the de facto standard for managing and deploying applications built on microservices and containers—and it’s easy to understand why. Kubernetes is the largest open...
View ArticleAWS re:Invent—What do Black Friday and Cyber Monday Have in Common?
With the genesis of Amazon Web Services, enterprises of all sizes can now take advantage of the public cloud to deliver significantly more agility and control. With AWS, elastic infrastructure is...
View ArticleWhy Kubelet TLS Bootstrap in Kubernetes 1.12 is a Very Big Deal
Kubelet TLS Bootstrap, an exciting and highly-anticipated feature in Kubernetes 1.12, is graduating to general availability. As you know, the Kubernetes orchestration system provides such key benefits...
View ArticleHow to Build Hybrid Cloud Confidence
This blog post is coauthored by Vamsi Chemitiganti, Chief Strategist at Platform9 Systems. The hybrid cloud is not a new concept. Way back in 2010, AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal had an interesting...
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