Software performance management

Application performance monitoring, bug hunting and code analysis all come into play for high-quality software. Get experts' opinions on the application performance monitoring tools, quality control metrics and other weapons in your software performance management arsenal against outages and slowdowns.

May 05, 2021 05 May'21
New Relic open sources Pixie observability platform

The Pixie Kubernetes-native observability platform is now available to the open source community after New Relic, which acquired the tech last December, contributed it to the CNCF.
March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21
Sentry adds performance monitoring for React Native, more

Sentry has added support for React Native, Android, Xamarin and Flutter-based apps to its application performance monitoring platform to help developers find and fix bugs.
February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20
LightStep targets developers with new observability tool

LightStep hones its observability software with its new Service Health for Deployments feature, which helps developers find and fix service health issues.
April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17
What the Akamai acquisition of SOASTA means for software development

Akamai intends to acquire SOASTA in the second quarter of 2017. Here is what that acquisition may mean for software development and why data science matters.

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application lifecycle management (ALM)

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is an integrated system of people, tools and processes that supervise a software application from its initial planning through retirement. Continue Reading
Microservices logging best practices every team should know

Creating a log system for distributed microservices is a task much easier said than done. Joydip Kanjilal offers a few best practices to shore up microservices logging processes. Continue Reading
Application performance monitoring tools and metrics quiz

Sharpen your pencil; it's APM quiz time. Test your knowledge of application performance monitoring and management, including tools, systems, concepts and best practices. Continue Reading

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Compare the top mobile operating systems for developers

Explore the differences between the leading mobile operating systems as well as the ways that they differ from traditional desktop applications. Continue Reading
Monitor APIs with these metrics for smooth app integrations

What user information do you pull in from APIs? Do you even know how well they perform? Dev teams should track these metrics to create and maintain smooth API communication. Continue Reading
Which APM tool works for devs, CIOs? New Relic vs. Stackify

Stackify Retrace and New Relic tools typify a divide between developers and CIOs on application monitoring. The products share many capabilities, but those features aren't equally granular or accessible. Continue Reading

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Flow efficiency is one of the trickiest DevOps metrics

Let's take a look at what it takes to measure flow efficiency, how it can help DevOps teams improve development practices and why it's not an easy metric to track. Continue Reading
Top 3 application performance testing objectives and goals

Let's explore the importance of result analysis, the right measurements and test design for application performance testing. Continue Reading
How experts run shift-left and shift-right testing

It's time to eliminate the testing bottleneck. Perform tests early and late in the SDLC to keep software moving -- and cut down on defects. Continue Reading

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9 techniques for fixing bugs in production

Some companies defend against bugs with a strong offense of rapid iterations and feature flags. Others find the best defense is thorough test coverage. Here's what works and why. Continue Reading
Use intrusive testing to push software to, and past, its limits

Grab your sledgehammer and get to work with destructive software testing. Here's how to use these intrusive methods to identify points of failure before software reaches users. Continue Reading
DevOps in the enterprise requires focus on security, visibility

App dev, quality and delivery challenges constantly pop up in DevOps implementations. Hear how overworked IT professionals deal with these challenges, and how tools can help -- or not. Continue Reading