Breaking down a series of interdependent movements into discrete actions is often the first step to improving the performance of everything from professional orchestras to sports teams. And so it is with software. The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) evolved out of an effort in the late 1960s to put formal quality processes in place […]

From cars to home appliances to wearables, the Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly found its way into everyday objects, changing the way we live and work. In fact, IDC estimates in its Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide that by 2021, global IoT spending is expected to total nearly $1.4 trillion. It’s easy […]

Tuesday, 26th June is the last stop (for now) of our European leg of the AppD Global Tour. So far over 500 technologists have attended the other three stages, and London is set to be the biggest of them all, with over 500 people expected to attend! Register for free here. If you have ever […]

Application performance monitoring or APM means a lot more to companies today than just identifying and resolving application errors. IT leaders attending AppDynamics’ Global Tour in San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York, and Dallas described how APM has evolved into unified monitoring and become a kind of central nervous system for their companies, keeping track of […]

As CTO of Data Science at AppDynamics, and in my previous role as co-founder of Perspica, I’ve seen machine learning make huge strides in recent years. ML has helped Netflix perfect binge watching, taught Siri how to sound more human and made Amazon Echo a fashion consultant. But when it comes to machine learning use […]

Just recently we launched AppDynamics for Kubernetes, giving enterprises end-to-end, unified visibility into their entire Kubernetes stack and Kubernetes-orchestrated applications for both on-prem and public cloud environments. Our industry-leading APM provides visibility into Kubernetes by leveraging labels such as Namespace, Pod or ReplicaSet. And AppDynamics customers can organize, group, query or filter Kubernetes objects or […]

DevOps is changing the way companies develop and maintain software. By embedding operations engineers into software development teams, companies are reducing the average number of days from code completion to live production and eliminating wait time and rework, among other benefits. But as I pointed out in my previous post “Performance Testing in a DevOps […]

AppDynamics’ strong commitment to Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s opinionated platform philosophy makes it easy to add our industry-leading APM to your PCF applications. Our new Service Broker Tile, available on PivNet, is the latest example of our commitment to the most advanced Pivotal architecture. The tile was completely rewritten to support all the latest Pivotal Service […]

Ask people where “the cloud” is, and most will likely respond “it doesn’t matter.” And that is true in the absolute sense. The physical location of cloud services is unknown and in theory should not matter. Except when it does. For many organizations today, and in particular those in the EU, data residency (where the […]

We previously showed in a blog post, The AppD Approach: Deployment Options for .NET Microservices Agent, how the advanced portability and refinement of AppDynamics’ new .NET Microservices Agent delivers great value to our customers who monitor .NET Core applications. Let’s dig further into how to deploy this agent following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. Azure […]