Tag: APM

  • What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?

    What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?

    The infrastructure drives the app architecture A cloud native applications is typically designed as a bunch of little components that coordinate with each other over a network. They may use events instead, and while that isn’t the same as point-to-point network communications, it follows the same idea: you have a bunch of indepedent-ish bundles of…

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  • Experts expect Sumo Logic match post-New Relic acquisition – I would not recommend “fusing” together any two software portfolios that are more than two – maybe three – years old. // “Further, multiple industry analysts predicted that New Relic and Sumo Logic will be fused under their new owners to create a broader set of…

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  • Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved – “Above $2-5M/year annual spend is where bringing a vendor in-house tends to come up. And this is because it is around this number where the cost of hiring a whole team to do what a vendor is doing can theoretically make sense.”

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  • Link: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne – “Digital is the new front door” for business

    “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of $4.9 million for the same period last year. Revenue was $91.8 million for the third quarter, up 35% year-over-year.” Original source: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne – “Digital is the new front door” for business

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  • Link: Microsoft gets serious about monitoring

    “Microsoft’s vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to application architects looking to optimize their software; performance information and debugging capabilities for DevOps and ops pros; insight into KPIs for executives; and information about customer usage to product owners. Microsoft doesn’t yet have a cohesive offering for all of…

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  • CopperEgg tackles APM space under Idera (451 Report)

    My colleague Dennis Callaghan wrote up an update around CopperEgg, the APM tool purchased by Idera in July of 2013. While you’ll have to be a 451 client to read the full report (or sign up for a free trial), here’s some excerpts: Now under Idera, CopperEgg has added real-user monitoring and repositioned itself as…

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  • SmartBear adds APM capabilities with Lucierna acquisition

    The APM stuff is going like hot-cakes apparently. Adding to it’s developer & QA tools and monitoring (AlertSite) portfolio, SmartBear announced it’s acquisition of Lucierna. On that note, one of the analysts on my team, Dennis Callaghan, has a long report coming out on the APM as a Service market this month. I’ve, of course, read…

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