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…
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…
Regardless if you’re a knowledgeable computer user or not, there is a high probability that you’ve heard of or have even used traceroute and ping. People often ping google.com to test if the "internet works" and use traceroute to find out more about their network performance. These two essential troubleshooting…
Monitoring enterprise IT has never been an easy task, and the speed, scale and complexity of digital environments is increasing exponentially each year. Digital complexity is not the future, it’s your reality—and it’s here now. IT departments are trying to visualize a moving target. The technical headaches alone can seem…