Tracking Changes to Your Website With Performance Monitoring
More and more companies are going agile, developing software in incremental, rapid cycles. This results in small incremental releases with each release building on previous functionality. Changes made...
View ArticleRed Team vs. Blue Team – Security and Performance
When a security breach or DDoS attack occurs, performance and user experience are the first visible victims. As the use of cloud services continues to make security more important than ever,...
View ArticleSignal Processing: Filtering Out The Noise
With cloud computing becoming ubiquitous and the advent of IoT, the problems associated with the three Vs of Big Data – viz., volume, velocity, and variety – would exacerbate. One routinely hears from...
View ArticleDid Riot Games Really Negotiate Direct Connections from Users to its Servers?
Every day more than 27 million people depend on Riot Games’ League of Legends to deliver an incredibly fast user experience. My fellow Catchpointer Greg Rubin and I are two of them. Like just about...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Day ’16: Success or Failure?
Yesterday was the second annual Amazon Prime Day; a day that is heralded for the incredible deals offered on pretty much anything you’d ever want to buy (including a $40,000 set of speakers—marked down...
View ArticleVelocity Santa Clara and Monitorama 2016: It’s a Wrap
My head is still spinning with all of the great content, amazing speakers, new tools and technologies that were covered at Monitorama 2016 and Velocity Santa Clara; however, there are still many...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to SLAs
While visiting a customer last week (a large SaaS platform company), we started to have an interesting discussion around Service Level Agreements (SLAs) during which he encouraged me to write this...
View ArticleIs Your Mobile Site Holiday Ready?
A website that scores positively across all performance metrics is usually what every online retailer strives to achieve. With the variety of devices available to customers, it is not enough to build a...
View ArticleGot IT Complexity? Monitor the User Experience
It’s no secret that IT operations has changed a lot over the last decade or so. New technologies like cloud, virtualization, containers, and microservices have made applications and infrastructure more...
View ArticleWeb Monitoring Just Isn’t Good Enough Anymore
Monitoring tools for websites have been around for more than two decades now. They can tell you whether your site is up or down, how long it takes your webpage to load, even how long it takes to...
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