Key Takeaways: Application performance monitoring (APM) was built for a world that no longer exists—where applications ran in controlled environments. Cloud, APIs and the Internet are the substrate of digital experiences today, making Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) an attractive approach to achieving the true visibility required to ensure reliability, resilience and user satisfaction. APM Was […]
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The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […]
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Headless Commerce: Why E-Commerce Is Losing Its Head
How headless commerce is changing the way commerce platforms are designed and services are offered Within the last 15 years we’ve seen commerce technology evolve at a breakneck pace. In the early nineties, online shopping was limited to simplistic webstores built around self-contained, all-in-one software solutions. And with consumer engagement restricted to web browser access […]
Spot Instances on Black Friday: A Case Study
Businesses made the right choice using spot instances for Black Friday Black Friday is the unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season, when retailers announce exciting deals to attract as many customers as they can into their stores. With online shopping surging in recent years, e-commerce and AdTech businesses are also participating in Black Friday […]
Browser Isolation: Staying in Front of Internet-Borne Attacks
Secure Remote Browsing Offers New Approach to Thwart Ever-Changing Cyberthreats Cybersecurity is a moving target, requiring constant vigilance to counter the cat-and-mouse tactics of malicious agents. Because enterprises are only as strong as the weakest link in their protection against internet threats, phishing schemes and rogue email attachments, proactive and defensive activities are essential. Each […]
Node.js Foundation Embraces HTTP/2
The latest version of Node.js will significantly increase the DevOps challenges surrounding the most widely used version of JavaScript in the enterprise. Node.js 8 adds the ability to support HTTP/2, a major revision of the core internet protocol that, in addition to being significantly faster, enables developers to make multiple requests over a single connection […]
Today’s DNS: DevOps’ New Best Friend
Continuous development and deployment is a primary focus of DevOps teams. As part of this process, DevOps teams also require the automatic creation or removal of networks, and automated deployment to production. Automation is a closer guarantee that the process will be done right the first time because the fewer the number of manual steps […]