Last week I flew into Las Vegas fully suited and booted in my big blue
costume (no joke). I’d been invited to speak in a vendor debate on User
eXperience (UX): Monitor the Application or the Network? NetScout represented
the Network, AppDynamics (and me) represented the Application, and
“Compuware dynaTrace Gomez” sat on the fence representing both.
Moderating was Jim Frey from EMA, who did a great job introducing the
subject, asking the questions and keeping the debate flowing.
At the start each vendor gave their usual intro and company pitch, followed
by their own definition on what User Experience is.
Defining User Experience
So at this point you’d probably expect me to blabber on about how
application code and agents are critical for monitoring the UX? Wrong. For
me, users experience “Business Transactions”–they don’t experience
applications, infrastructure, or... (more)
The most enjoyable part of my job at AppDynamics is to witness and evangelize
customer success. What’s slightly strange is that for this to happen, an
application has to slow down or crash.
It’s a bittersweet feeling when End Users, Operations, Developers and many
Businesses suffer application performance pain. Outages cost the business
money, but sometimes they cost people their jobs–which is truly
unfortunate. However, when people solve performance issues, they become
overnight heroes with a great sense of achievement, pride, and obviously
relief.
To explain the complexity of... (more)
Last week a performance engineer called Ben Bramley published a blog entitled
“APM Market Disruptors – AppDynamics and New Relic“. The purpose of his
article was to provide an overview of AppDynamics and New Relic, whilst also
summarizing the key approaches each vendor/solution has taken to simplify and
disrupt the APM marketplace.
Firstly, we’re thrilled to be recognized by a blogger, who in this case,
had previous hands on experience with Application Performance Management
(APM) products like OpTier, CA Wily, HP and dynaTrace. Secondly, whilst it
was obviously good (and slight... (more)
As data has grown exponentially at many sites, companies have been forced to
horizontally scale their data. Some have turned to sharding of databases
like Postrres or MySQL , while others have switched to newer NoSQL data
systems. There have been many debates in the last few years about SQL vs.
NoSQL data management systems and which is better. What many have failed to
grasp, though, is how similar these systems are and how complex they both are
to run in production in high scale.
Both of these systems represent what I call a Data Cloud. This Data Cloud is
logical data set sp... (more)
Okay, admit it. The title Spot the Difference in AppDynamics 3.4 caught your
attention, especially after we just recently announced our free End User
Monitoring features, and now you’re here to find out what other insanely
cool stuff we’ve been working on to enhance the experience for APM
aficionados, customers and people like you! I’m proud to say that
AppDynamics continues to innovate by leaps and bounds which enables our
customers to be more successful in how they manage application performance
and availability.
Here’s an example of us staying ahead of the curve.,
Hmmmm, a p... (more)
App Man has a passion for making apps go faster ever since he was bitten by some radioactive byte code whilst working in Operations. He works with AppDynamics around the clock to help customers resolve performance pain and master application performance management.
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