By Pat Romanski  New Relic, Inc. has announced a set of new features across the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud that offer IT operations teams increased visibility, and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance problems quickly. The new features further IT operations teams’ ability to leverage... Apr. 10, 2016 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,418 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today TMCnet has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at th... Apr. 10, 2016 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,304 |
By AppDynamics Blog  So we have an eBook, The Top 10 Java Performance Problems, that we tweet out from time to time. Without exception, a few people reply with some version of “the problem is you’re using Java.” Java, apparently, is constantly criticized, and people have been predicting its demise for some... Apr. 1, 2016 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,087 |
By Yakov Fain  In any component-based framework you’ll need to implement component communications. The main principle is that components should be loosely coupled hence reusable hence testable. The mediator design pattern allows you to arrange component communications via “the man in the middle” so a... Mar. 30, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,258 |
By Liz McMillan  CIOs and those charged with running IT Operations are challenged to deliver secure, audited, and reliable compute environments for the applications and data for the business. Behind the scenes these tasks are often accomplished by following onerous time-consuming processes and often th... Feb. 27, 2016 06:45 PM EST Reads: 1,268 |
By David H Deans  Forward-thinking CEOs ensure that their organization has access to the latest digital business technologies. But in today’s global networked economy, that’s not enough. If you believe that digital transformation knowledge is power, then fully mastering the ability to apply your IT capa... Nov. 5, 2015 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,094 |
By Elizabeth White  Interested in leveraging automation technologies and a cloud architecture to make developers more productive? Learn how PaaS can benefit your organization to help you streamline your application development, allow you to use existing infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies.... Oct. 14, 2015 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,736 |
By Jnan Dash  The concept of a ‘data lake’ was coined by James Dixon of Pentaho Corp. and this is what he said – If you think of a datamart as a store of bottled water – cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption – the data lake is a large body of water in a more natural state. The co... Sep. 30, 2015 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,145 |
By Liz McMillan  The OpenStack cloud operating system includes Trove, a database abstraction layer. Rather than applications connecting directly to a specific type of database, they connect to Trove, which in turn connects to one or more specific databases. One target database is Postgres Plus Cloud Da... Sep. 22, 2015 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
By Ryan Bateman  I’ve encountered this a few times in the field when chatting with fellow marketers, even the most mature marketing organizations have made these mistakes. We aspire for exponential growth and to do it, we’ve adopted agile practices to fail-fast, learn from our mistakes and quickly rebo... Sep. 20, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 726 |
By Daniel Khan  Most developers learn best by examples, which naturally tend to simplify matters and omit things that aren’t essential for understanding. This means that the “Hello World” example, when used as starting point for an application, may be not suitable for production scenarios at all.
I s... Aug. 2, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 749 |
By Ruxit Blog  Beginning with Ruxit Agent v1.73, Ruxit provides root cause analysis for Node.js errors down to the code level. As with other services, Ruxit marks web requests to Node.js as failed based on the accompanying HTTP error code.
Simply click the Failure rate portion of any Node.js service... Aug. 2, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 783 |
By Lori MacVittie  Software is eating the world. Everywhere you look there's an app for that. And I'm talking everywhere - including places and activities that maybe there shouldn't be an app for. No, I won't detail which those are. The Internet is your playground, I'm sure you can find examples.
The p... Jun. 29, 2015 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,404 |
By Frank McCourt  Technology is advancing all around us. From our TV's that we use in our homes to the smart phones we ever so mindlessly use on a day to day basis, and they're becoming more and more connected to each other too. Technological advancement and connectivity are driving forces in businesses... Jun. 20, 2015 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,650 |
By Sematext Blog  The release of Kibana 4.x has had an impact on monitoring and other related activities. In this post we’re going to get specific and show you how to add Node.js monitoring to the Kibana 4 server app. Why Node.js? Because Kibana 4 now comes with a little Node.js server app that... Jun. 7, 2015 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,454 |
By Hovhannes Avoyan  Python is really a language which has swept the scene in recent years in terms of popularity, elegance, and functionality. Research shows that 8 out 10 computer science departments in the U.S. now teach their introductory courses with Python, surpassing Java. Top-ranked CS departments ... Jun. 5, 2015 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,544 |
By Yeshim Deniz  SYS-CON Events announced today that the "First Containers & Microservices Conference" will take place June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. The “Second Containers & Microservices Conference” will take place November 3-5, 2015, at Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa C... Jun. 2, 2015 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,986 |
By Yeshim Deniz  DevOps Summit at Cloud Expo New York is offering a limited time FREE "Expo Plus" registration option in New York. On site registration price of $1,95 will be set to 'free' for delegates who register during special offer. To take advantage of this opportunity, attendees can use the coup... Jun. 2, 2015 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,615 |
By Yeshim Deniz  Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API Security and Cloud Integration solutions, announced that it is introducing DevOps automation to the API lifecycle.
New capabilities in Akana's API Management platform significantly reduce the time required to update API definitions an... Jun. 2, 2015 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,549 |
By AppDynamics Blog  I was able to spend time in Tallinn at the first TopConf conference focused on DevOps. The conference had a good turnout of over 80 attendees for its first year. The list of speakers was excellent at the conference, including technology companies such as Skype and SoundCloud and though... Jun. 1, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,953 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced a series of new features and functional enhancements to better support the growing number of customers leveraging its virtual data pipeline technology in support of DevOps use cases.
While infrastructure is increasingly ... May. 22, 2015 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,816 |
By Lori MacVittie  SDN is a still simmering trend. It's not boiling over like cloud did in its early years but rather it's slowly, steadily continuing to move forward as more organizations evaluate, pilot and implement pockets of SDN within their organization.
stage of sdn deployment 2015
But it's not ... May. 10, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,188 |
By Elizabeth White  Between the compelling mockups and specs produced by your analysts and designers, and the resulting application built by your developers, there is a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral out of control, and applications fall short of requirements.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Ch... May. 10, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,713 |
By Elizabeth White  SYS-CON Events announced today Isomorphic Software, the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications, will exhibit at SYS-CON's DevOps Summit 2015 New York, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Isomorphic Software is the gl... Apr. 27, 2015 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 9,421 |
By XebiaLabs Blog  When it comes to microservices there are myths and uncertainty about the journey ahead. Deploying a “Hello World” app on Docker is a long way from making microservices work in real enterprises with large applications, complex environments and existing organizational structures. Februar... Apr. 1, 2015 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,324 |
By Cloud Best Practices Network  Nike is an organization that understands the shift described by Michael Porter, to a third generation of competitive advantage where technology becomes an integral part of product value. Fitness is a key area where IoT wearable technologies combined with new apps will become differenti... Mar. 26, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,059 |
By Lori MacVittie  One of the neat things about microservices is the ability to segment functional actions into scalability domains. Login, browsing, and checkout are separate functional domains that can each be scaled according to demand. While one hopes that checkout is similarly in demand, it is unlik... Mar. 23, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,369 |
By Plutora Blog  Many of the well-known examples of DevOps success we read in blogs on the Internet paint an idyllic picture of DevOps productivity. A team was facing a stodgy, slow-moving operations department, teams weren’t delivering software on time. Those teams moved to DevOps, became proactive ab... Mar. 18, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
By Yakov Fain  This morning I got the following email from a Java developer: “It seems you are doing less Java and more web development every year.” This got me thinking, and I decided to write this blog.
Am I still a Java developer after 17 years of using this language? I certainly am. But in today... Mar. 6, 2015 08:46 AM EST Reads: 1,412 |
By VictorOps Blog  I recently had the opportunity to attend UI19 in Boston, a long-running conference focused on user experience design and ways to be more effective in a UX role as part of a larger team. One of the presentations in particular stuck with me as I returned to Boulder thinking about VictorO... Mar. 3, 2015 12:15 PM EST Reads: 4,154 |
By Ken Fogel  The NetBeans New File wizards greatly simplify writing boilerplate code. One specific instance is the creation of JPA Controller Classes from an Entity Classes. The class file, or files, written for you will contain all the basic methods of JPA for CRUD operations on the entity or enti... Feb. 16, 2015 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,257 |
By Automic Blog  A focus on automation is now a very common trait for large enterprises today. Faced with rising competition and the unrelenting need to evolve their user experience to match changing customer expectations, enterprises now need to innovate even faster than before.
Automation is part ... Feb. 10, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,535 |
By Carmen Gonzalez  SYS-CON Media announced today that ITInvolve launched their popular blog feed on DevOps Journal.
DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. DevOps Journal brings valuable information to DevOps professionals who are transforming the ... Feb. 9, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 2,887 |
By Aria Blog  Enterprise resource planning systems like SAP ran manufacturing-economy companies that made widgets. In the digital economy, systems like Aria are the new ERP. Seventeen of the Fortune 500 companies launched on the Aria Active Monetization platform in 2014.
Event-oriented non-blocki... Feb. 7, 2015 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,044 |
By Plutora Blog  When a CIO or a CTO thinks of the applications they support it is almost always in terms of a "portfolio" When a research company named Gleanster poll executives about agile data management they discovered an interesting trend. Companies are reporting an increase in portfolio sizes wi... Jan. 30, 2015 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,918 |
By Ram Sonagara  Smart watches, which pioneered the wearable technology sector, earned collective revenue of US$700 million in 2013 with the sale of 3.1 million units. The sheer magnanimity of these watches can be inferred from quick sale they made and acceptance they received. Smart watches are nothin... Jan. 28, 2015 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,954 |
By Plutora Blog  Whether you are a release manager, a release engineer, or a someone just supporting a release you understand that the intersection of software releases and instant messaging can be frustrating. Whether you use Skype, Jabber, Slack, or any other group-based instant messaging applicatio... Jan. 28, 2015 02:30 PM EST Reads: 2,547 |
By Sematext Blog  Kafka has become the de-facto standard for handling real-time streams in high-volume, data-intensive applications, and there are certainly a lot of those out there. We thought it would be valuable to conduct a quick poll to find out which which implementation of Kafka Producers and Co... Jan. 21, 2015 02:15 PM EST Reads: 2,779 |
By PagerDuty Blog  Traditionally if a critical customer has an issue in the middle of your night, it wouldn’t be answered until the next business day. With the Desk.com and PagerDuty integration, your team can immediately get notified about top-tier support issues as they happen, and can then handle the ... Jan. 21, 2015 11:45 AM EST Reads: 2,083 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Cloud computing adds flexibility to enterprise IT. When companies wish to take advantage of this, they are finding they need to turn to microservices instead of their traditional, monolithic architectures to accommodate frequent change.
Microservices can overcome the challnges prese... Jan. 13, 2015 05:30 PM EST Reads: 3,108 |