If you haven’t considered how risky it is to rely on the Internet to carry your mission-critical customer and employee digital experiences, then the month of June 2019 alone can serve as a great learning opportunity, with three distinct and far-reaching examples of just how fragile the Internet is. On June 2nd, we saw a major Google outage that lasted for four…
In a word, experience. Allow me to explain. AIOps is a hot, new buzzword that encapsulates the hopes and fears of all the years of underperforming IT monitoring and seeks to deliver a better answer. There’s a lot of understandable skepticism when invoking “AI” in any definition today, so I…
Today we announced a growth investment round of $50 million led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from one new investor, Thomvest Ventures, plus all of our existing investors. More than three years after our last investment of $35 million with phenomenal market adoption and still more than half…
Keeping track of the size of a Kafka topic and watching it vary over time helped us uncover unexpected patterns that might seem mysterious to the inexperienced cluster administrator. Even with limits set, the reported size can vary vastly. Periodic spikes upon deletion of data can be seen, with a…
At the beginning of 2019, it’s worth taking stock of IT Ops initiatives. One of the biggest takeaways from 2018 is that cloud adoption and the digitization of customer experiences are mainstreaming and it’s high time for IT Ops teams to catch up. A follow-on takeaway is that gaining visibility…
What if we told you that 1 second could mean 7% more revenue? Time is Money. Seconds count big time in terms of website conversions, revenue, stickiness... loyalty. That’s why application performance monitoring is a multi-billion dollar business. The graphic below shows how critical performance is to business result.