September 27, 2021
Unless you’ve been developing software in a cave, you’ve probably heard people sing the praises of microservices. They’re agile, simple, and an overall improvement on the monolith and service-oriented architecture days. But of course, with all the benefits of microservices comes a new set of challenges.
July 26, 2021
A common architectural design pattern these days is to break up an application monolith into smaller microservices. Each microservice is then responsible for a specific aspect or feature of your app. For example, one microservice might be responsible for serving external API requests, while another might handle data fetching for your frontend.
November 10, 2020
Open-source application diversity is both the biggest boon in the Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) movement, and its greatest hindrance to adoption. You don’t always own the application you’re consuming, and it often comes with certain opinions and limitations imposed by the software author—either intentionally or otherwise.
November 9, 2020
In the last several years, Google’s Kubernetes project has generated huge buzz. The project has grown and evolved into a titan of the cloud infrastructure world. While it’s a great project and serves many purposes, it remains a complex beast. Even with the managed Kubernetes services from major cloud providers, teams have to maintain complex, interwoven architectures using an ever-expanding cosmos of plugins and paradigm shifts. With such complexity inherent with its flexibility, Kubernetes requires its own set of skills in order to implement, maintain, upgrade, and operate this diverse orchestration ecosystem.
November 3, 2020
In this article, we’re going to walk through some of the basic setup for Slash GraphQL and then take a look at how I built a Pokémon Pokédex app with React and Slash GraphQL in just a few hours! Frontend developers want interacting with the backend of their web application to be as painless as possible. Requesting data from the database or making updates to records stored in the database should be simple so that frontend developers can focus on what they do best: creating beautiful and intuitive user interfaces.
October 30, 2020
As long as I can remember, I’ve included log messages in my code to provide run-time insight into what the code is really doing. From developers running locally all the way to the eyes of a production support engineer, these extra lines of code are meant to help troubleshoot unexpected scenarios.
January 22, 2020
Azure App Service makes it easy to host reliable and scalable web applications. However, this doesn’t mean you can ignore your applications after deployment. Errors, performance issues, and other problems can occur at any time, affecting your quality of service and revenue. Staying on top of problems like these requires comprehensive monitoring, and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions like SolarWinds®AppOptics™can help.
August 19, 2019
Your website performance is critical for success. Poor page load times and responsiveness can lead to lost sales, lost ranking on search engines like Google, frustrated customers, and more. Even beyond that, inefficient code can increase infrastructure costs and potentially even affect the ability of your business to scale. We’ll discuss how to run high(er) performance Python for web applications using the popular Django framework. We’ll cover some of the common problems and patterns so you know what to look for.
June 11, 2019
Slow webpages kill conversions and search rankings. This article is about common problems with ASP.NET site performance and how to optimize your site to overcome them. There are many ways you can measure performance in applications. In this article I’m going to use an application performance monitoring (APM) tool to measure performance, identify problems, and get to the root cause. We will then provide multiple ways you can remediate and potentially avoid ASP.
June 11, 2019
Slow webpages kill conversions and search rankings. This article is about common problems with ASP.NET site performance and how to optimize your site to overcome them. There are many ways you can measure performance in applications. In this article I’m going to use an application performance monitoring (APM) tool to measure performance, identify problems, and get to the root cause. We will then provide multiple ways you can remediate and potentially avoid ASP.
