June 18, 2019
Deciding whether or not to use an opinionated framework for your next project will have significant implications, both over the short term of getting the product to market on time and over the long haul. It can affect how easy your application will be to maintain and modify in order to meet changing needs. The answer may not always be clear or easy, but it’ll help you learn when to choose the big opinionated framework.
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.
June 6, 2019
Sometimes developers are hesitant to include logging due to performance concerns, but is this justified? And how much does library choice affect performance? The team at SolarWinds® Loggly® and myself decided to find out. We ran a series of performance tests on some of the most popular Node.js libraries. These tests are designed to show how quickly each library processed logging and the impact on the overall application. Let’s see how they did!
June 6, 2019
Serverless architectures such as AWS Lambda have created new challenges in debugging code. Without a solid logging framework in place, you could waste hours, or even days, tracking down simple defects in your functions. A strategic logging framework can be a powerful way to track down and resolve bugs. Let’s walk through how to get the most out of logging Lambda functions. We’ll set up and troubleshoot code to find the root cause of a defect, look at some best practices for logging Lambda functions, and explore setting up alerts.
May 31, 2019
We’ll discuss some of the advantages of using a true staging environment in your software development lifecycle, and why they don’t need to be complicated to set up.
May 22, 2019
When Ruby 2.6 arrived in December 2018, it came with some new methods for Enumerable as well as other improvements to list and sequence handling. In this post, I’ll show you a few capabilities recently added to Ruby’s Enumerable as well as a few old favorites.
May 15, 2019
Websites have become larger and more complex over the past few years, and users expect them to load instantaneously, even on mobile devices. We’ll explain how CDNs help improve web performance, how they work, and how to implement them in your websites.
May 15, 2019
Any business, whatever size or industry, runs on information. A persistent challenge for the DevOps team is finding faster, easier, and better ways of getting information into the hands of business users when and where they need it. This used to require using a business intelligence (BI) solution or running custom queries against the database. What if it were as simple as asking a chatbot? No need to worry about reports or queries.
May 13, 2019
In general, databases are an integral part of any information system. They are used for storing, querying, and updating critical business data. Naturally, the availability, performance, and security of a database system are of primary concerns for any database administrator. To facilitate this, system administrators typically make use of various database monitoring tools. In this post, we will introduce you to the principles of building an effective database monitoring strategy. We will talk about what type of metrics you should collect, how you can collect those metrics, and a few best practices.
