It is incumbent on cloud ops teams to choose the correct type of AWS EC2 instance relative to the underlying application. The wrong choice could adversely impact business and user experience. This blog post walks through a customer case study where the instance choice impacted their business. It is important for Application and Ops (AppOps) teams to collaborate closely in understanding the workload characteristics and performance expectations while also keeping cloud cost implications in mind. Setting the right alarms and taking corrective actions is also key for AppOps teams to deliver successful applications on the cloud.
A Typical Production Scenario: How Do You Deal With This? It is 2 am in the morning and you get woken up by a phone call from the helpdesk team. The helpdesk is receiving a flood of calls from application users. A business-critical partner application, powered by Java, is reported to be slow and...
Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the world with thousands of business applications (banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, government, etc.) built on its robust computing platform, and millions of end-users accessing them. Ensuring superior user experience and peak...
Real User Monitoring Tools vs. Web Analytics For enterprises that are going digital – offering business services and reaching customers online – web analytics tools such as Google Analytics provide real-time insights into user behavior, access patterns and conversion rates. Using a small...
Mission-critical systems can be disrupted if SSL certificates expire. IT organizations also need to monitor erroneous or unauthorized changes to SSL certificates to prevent security attacks and system outages. Given the business criticality of SSL certificates, manual tracking is not a viable...
As an application owner or architect, have you been in situations where the users complain that the Web Application is slow, but there is no clear root cause? How do we go from finger-pointing and hit-and-miss troubleshooting to pin-pointing the root cause? This blog post frames the problem...