Top 2017 DevOps Conferences to Attend
Every year, a new slate of conferences focus on helping those who work in the world of DevOps learn the latest IT technologies, performance challenges, languages, frameworks, platforms, software...
View ArticleCode Compiled: A Short History of Programming — Part III
Programming for Commerce, Banking, and FinTech Look at how far we’ve come. Just seven decades ago, the word “computer” referred to someone in an office with a pile of charts and a slide rule. Then...
View ArticleThe Bedrock of the Software World: C++ Programming Language
C++ is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. It’s very fast and used for many high-profile projects, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Office. C++ is a mid-level language that...
View ArticleBlockchain: Everything You Need to Know
The first thing you need to know about blockchain is that it enables the creation of virtual currencies and intelligent contracts. At its core is the concept of a “distributed ledger,” where data on...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Worldwide PHP Conferences
Despite the rapid growth of new programming languages and platforms, PHP continues to be a stable workforce that powers much of the web. More than 82 percent of the internet is powered with server-side...
View ArticleDigital Transformation in the Construction Industry
Construction has been called the science of the practical. While designers and governmental bodies argue over the limits of the possible, leaders in the construction industry have simply continued to...
View ArticleConversational Technology: Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and the Google Assistant
One of the big laughs from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where the crew from the future travels back in time to 1986 San Francisco, happens when Scotty is put in front of a PC and the chief engineer...
View ArticleThe Smoke and Mirrors of UX vs. Application Performance
Can a better UX simultaneously deliver a worse user experience? It sounds like a paradox, but it may be more common than you think. It describes a category of UX design practices that have little to do...
View ArticleDeploying at Scale: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Fabric and SaltStack
The manageability, reliability and powerful technology of remote servers — cloud computing — allows IT managers to deploy hundreds, even thousands of machines. At the same time, the cloud creates a new...
View ArticleAppD Summit Europe: On the Path to Peak Performance
Look around. Promises are nothing, performance is everything. That’s just as true for developers and operations engineers as it is for the apps they’re responsible for managing. In the tech field, top...
View ArticleThe Importance of APM for Developers
Software developers are the modern equivalent of medieval craftsman. In the old days, masters of the constructive arts — such as those who transformed trees into furniture — would take responsibility...
View ArticleGo for Performance with AppDynamics for Go
When Google gets frustrated with the complexities and slow speed of Internet technology, they do what Google does best — they solve for it. They set out to create a new language that was fast, worked...
View ArticleWhat Real IT Leaders Are Saying About APM
Application performance management (APM) used to be considered a niche discipline, but it’s rapidly become an essential tool in the modern IT leader’s toolbox. So while APM itself isn’t new, it is new...
View ArticleHow to Optimize Enterprise-Scale Node.js Applications
Node.js is rapidly becoming one of the most popular platforms for building fast, scalable web and mobile applications. In fact, the 2017 Node.js User Survey reveals that there are currently over 7...
View ArticleCognition Engine Unifies AIOps and Application Intelligence
When we welcomed Perspica into the AppDynamics family in 2017, I knew we were going to change the application performance monitoring industry in a big way. And that’s why today is so important for us....
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