Now, more than ever, the Internet has become a critical lifeline for billions of people around the world impacted by COVID-19. A vast portion of the workforce is working remotely. Students at every level are learning online. Fitness classes, religious services, and medical appointments have gone digital. Social interactions are now mostly virtual. Consumer networks have effectively become our all-in-one tether to…
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…
During ONUG NY 2019, David Mann, Senior Director of Global Network Services shared how McGraw-Hill leveraged ThousandEyes to help transform the quality and consistency of the digital experience it provides to students and educational institutions. Mann explained that achieving excellent online delivery hasn’t been simply an issue of cloud deployment.…
Introducing an Application Performance Management (APM) and Distributed Tracing tool is key to keeping a distributed software ecosystem healthy. We use this fundamental tool to track our platform performance and better understand how requests are flowing through our infrastructure and to trace internal service performance.