It’s Almost Time to Jam
We’re pretty excited about our first AppJam User Group Summit in the USA! Hosted by our very own App Man–who couldn’t write this post because he’s busy dry cleaning his costume–AppJam is an opportunity...
View ArticleWhat’s Sucking the CPU in your Applications?
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the phrase “We used to throw hardware at performance issues”–well, I wouldn’t be writing this blog; I’d be sitting on a beach somewhere in Hawaii, retired with...
View ArticleDon’t Deploy Your Cloud Application Without Reading This – Part 1
Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud bursting, cloud storming, elastic compute, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, the list of terms goes on and on ad-nauseam. Like it or not, cloud computing has taken hold...
View ArticleBuzzword Bingo by UrbanDictionary.com
It seems like every article, tweet, blog post I read someone has a different definition of the same buzzwords – especially in technology. Mentioning cloud or big data on a tech blog is like bringing...
View ArticleCloud Migration Tips #1: Cloud = Confusion
I get so many questions about cloud computing from friends, acquaintances and IT professionals alike. The non-technical folks usually have heard of “the cloud” but have absolutely no idea what it is or...
View ArticleCloud Migration Tips #2: We Should Use the Cloud Because…
Welcome back to my blog series on deploying applications to the cloud. What’s the point of deploying an application to the cloud versus just hosting it in your own data center? Is it really a good...
View ArticleCloud Migration Tips #3: Plan to Fail
Planning to deploy or migrate an application to a cloud environment is a big deal. In my last post we discussed the value of using real business and IT requirements to drive the justification of using...
View ArticleCloud Migration Tips Part 4: Failure Breeds Success
Welcome back to my series on migration to the cloud. In my last post we discussed all of the effort you need to put into the planning phase of your migration. In this post we are going to focus on what...
View ArticleTools of the trade for performance and load testing
Your application is fast and scalable, right? How do you know? How often do you run performance or load tests? In this post I will give an overview of the tools of the trade for performance and load...
View ArticleFaster and Better On-Boarding for MSPs
Managed Service Providers have a big task these days. A few years ago applications were much less complex and understanding those application architectures and dependencies before on-boarding was much...
View ArticleAppDynamics Pro on the Windows Azure Store
Over a year ago, AppDynamics announced a partnership with Microsoft and launched AppDynamics Lite on the Windows Azure Store. With AppDynamics Lite, Windows Azure users were able to easily monitor...
View ArticleBootstrapping DropWizard apps with AppDynamics on OpenShift by Red Hat
Getting started with DropWizard, OpenShift, and AppDynamics In this blog post, I’ll show you how to deploy a Dropwizard-based application on OpenShift by Red Hat and monitor it with AppDynamics....
View ArticleInstrumenting .NET applications with AppDynamics using NuGet
Introduction One of the coolest things to come out of the .NET stable at AppD this week was the NuGet package for Azure Cloud Services. NuGet makes it a breeze to deploy our .NET agent along with your...
View ArticleTaking Advantage of What the Cloud Has to Offer
Moving your application to the cloud isn’t as simple as porting your code over and configurations to someone else’s infrastructure – nor should it be. Cloud computing represents a shift in the world of...
View ArticleMonitoring Apps on the Cloud Foundry PaaS
At AppDynamics, we pride ourselves on making it easier to monitor complex applications. This is why we are excited to announce our partnership with Pivotal to make it easier to deploy built-in...
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