Comparing vSphere and Hyper-V
Virtualization is supposed to provide consolidation and high availability benefits for applications. So what is a hypervisor? Why are there two types of hypervisors? What’s the difference between VMware® vSphere™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V®? What exactly are Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors? What if I just want to learn about vSphere and Hyper-V so that I can compare … Read more Comparing vSphere and Hyper-V
Timeline Profiling with Chrome DevTools
I need to learn this. I get that feeling from time to time. Maybe you have experienced it too. For me, it happens when I know there is a better way to do things and I feel there isn’t enough time to stop and learn. It actually happened a few weeks ago. We have a large … Read more Timeline Profiling with Chrome DevTools
How To Make CloudWatch AWSome
Amazon CloudWatch is a popular option for collecting system and performance metrics from your AWS resources. For some services, it’s the only means available to collect badly needed metrics data. CloudWatch makes it trivially easy to fetch core system metrics like CPU, Network, and Disk, as well as more specialized metrics like queue-sizes and latency … Read more How To Make CloudWatch AWSome
The Evolution of the Web and Digital Experience Monitoring
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is so business critical that it’s featured in a Gartner magic quadrant. At the same time, it is so new that even Wikipedia does not know what it is. (related read: What is Digital Experience Monitoring (and Why Should You Care)? Why is that? Monitoring as a practice is as old as dirt, … Read more The Evolution of the Web and Digital Experience Monitoring
Make the most of your HTTP check: best practice for optional settings
People using our services would be very familiar with our basic HTTP Uptime check by now. After all, it’s our most used feature. Something a lot of our users might not know is that you can make the HTTP checks more advanced by using the Optional settings of the check. You find these settings under … Read more Make the most of your HTTP check: best practice for optional settings