When Internet outages happen, they can be extremely disruptive to your business. By preventing users from reaching your applications and services, outages can cause major revenue and reputation damage. While application delivery is dependent on many Internet Service Providers (ISPs), it also increasingly relies on a large and complex ecosystem of Internet-facing services — such CDN, DNS, DDoS mitigation and public cloud.…
APIs have quickly become an essential building block in modern-day application architectures, both for quick and easy access to services within the app itself and for access from external services. On average, it is estimated that developers use between 10 to 15 APIs per application. As these API-centric applications move…
Our front end at ThousandEyes has evolved a lot over time, and we are currently migrating to Vue.js from AngularJS. The app started when jQuery was still used as the primary JavaScript helper library, and when AngularJS came along, ThousandEyes went all in, like many companies at the time. It…
In a previous blog, "Leveraging Modern Visibility Tools to Tame Your IT Infrastructure," we used lessons from the historic wild west to manage complex government IT networks. In this blog, we’ll move back into the present to discuss ways to ensure the performance of your cloud infrastructure, platforms and services.
While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been a mainstay of Enterprise IT teams for many years, many businesses have struggled to ensure consistent performance for their SaaS applications. A critical reason for this is SaaS blindness (i.e. not understanding the underlying reason for SaaS outages and/or severe performance issues resulting in cloud…
Kafka Streams is a light-weight open-source Java library to process real-time data on top of an Apache Kafka Cluster. Like any other stream processing framework (e.g., Spark Streaming or Apache Flink), the Kafka Streams API supports stateless and stateful operations. The Kafka team built it on top of the core…