Dustin Whittle is a Developer Evangelist at AppDynamics where he focuses on helping organizations manage application performance. Find out more at dustinwhittle.com.
The performance of your application affects your business more than you might think. Top engineering organizations think of performance not as a nice-to-have, but as a crucial feature of their product. Unfortunately, most engineering teams do not regularly test the performance and scalability of their infrastructure. To understand how to test performance in modern applications, […]
Unless you have been living under a rock the last year, you have probably heard about Docker. Docker describes itself as an open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins. That sounds great, but why does it matter? Wait, virtualization isn’t new!? Virtualization technology has existed for more than a decade and in the […]
It is no secret the mobile application market is continuing to grow at impressive rates with over 25% of the internet now being consumed from mobile devices. If you are only doing business on the web you are leaving a massive audience behind. The audience just got a bit easier to reach on the iOS […]
We’re proud to partner with OpenShift by Red Hat to help monitor their open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Together we make it easier to scale into the cloud. The integration helps foster DevOps by increasing the visibility and collaboration between the typically fragmented development and operations teams throughout the product lifecycle. We caught up with Chris Morgan, […]
In the AppDynamics Spring 2014 release we added support for the Scala language and the TypeSafe Reactive Platform with support for Play2 and Akka based applications. We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with TypeSafe to provide the best APM solution in the market for Reactive applications. “Our new partnership with AppDynamics provides end […]
Executives charged with building business-driven applications have an extremely challenging task ahead of them. However, the cavalry has arrived with useful tools and strategies built specifically to keep modern applications working efficiently. We partnered with Gigaom Research to carefully grasp, and articulate, how these modern methodologies are improving the lives of IT professionals in today’s […]
As part of AppDynamics’ Summer ‘14 release, we added support for a plethora of new features in the Java & .NET product modules. What does this news mean for Java & .Net developers? Let’s take a closer look at how our best in class feature set enables developers to deliver better performing, higher quality apps. […]
As part of AppDynamics’ Summer ‘14 release, we announced the general availability of our Node.js application performance management product module. What does this news mean for Node.js developers? Let’s take a closer look at how our best in class feature set enables developers to deliver better performing, higher quality Node.js apps regardless of framework. Distributed […]
In my first post, I discussed how software and various tools are dramatically changing the Ops department. This post centers on the automation process. When I was younger, you actually had to build a server from scratch, buy power and connectivity in a data center, and manually plug a machine into the network. After wearing […]
AppSphere is just a few short months away, and we’ve lined up an incredible agenda that will uncover the trends that are affecting technology and discuss best practices for managing the impact of evolving technology on your bottom line. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from thought leaders like Jonah Kowall, Research Vice President, IT […]