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This week in the world of technology, the German government investigated tech
giants, IBM and Jasper partnered on IoT, and coding schools brought more
diversity to tech.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING GOOGLE, FACEBOOK – Fast Company, October
27
Watch out Facebook, Google, and the hundreds of other tech companies
operating in Germany – the German government is coming in hot.
According to a recent report, a decision has been made by German data
protection authorities to investigate a slew of tech companies for illegal
data transfers. The investigation comes just weeks after the Court of Justice
of the ... (more)
The Benefits of Migrating from JavaScript to TypeScript
By Raphael Feng
Recently, we moved our Browser RUM agent from JavaScript to TypeScript. In my
last post, I focused on walking through the steps of migrating from
JavaScript, the challenges, and best practices we uncovered along the way.
This one will focus on more details of the benefits and one missing feature
in TypeScript compiler we suggest to implement.
TypeScript's main benefits:
Class and Module Support Static Type-checking ES6 Feature Support Clear
Library API Definition Build-in Support for JavaScript Packaging Synta... (more)
Top Five PHP APM Tips and Tricks
By Omed Habib
This article series has covered a lot of ground: it presented an overview of
application performance management (APM), it identified the challenges in
implementing an APM strategy, it proposed a top five list of important
metrics to measure to assess the health of an enterprise PHP application, and
it presented AppDynamics’ approach to building an APM solution. In this
final installment this article provides some tips-and-tricks to help you
implement an optimal APM strategy. Specifically, this article addresses the
following topics:... (more)
Top 5 Performance Metrics for Node.js Applications
By Omed Habib
The last couple articles presented an introduction to Application Performance
Management (APM) and identified the challenges in effectively implementing an
APM strategy. This article builds on these topics by reviewing five of the
top performance metrics to capture to assess the health of your enterprise
Node.js application.
Specifically this article reviews the following:
Business Transactions External Dependencies The Event Loop Memory Leaks
Application Topology
Business Transactions
Business Transactions provide in... (more)
Docker: The Secret Sauce to Fuel Innovation
By Kevin Goldberg
Much has already been written about the virtues of Docker, and containers in
general like CoreOS or Kubernetes. How life-changing Docker is, how
innovative, etc. However, the real secret to Docker's success in the
marketplace is the hidden retribution of innovation. Innovation and R&D; is
the lifeblood of today's technology success. Companies, no matter how large,
must iterate constantly to stay ahead of their legacy competitors and new
upstarts risking disruption. The rise of Agile methodologies and DevOps teams
comes... (more)
In high-production environments where release cycles are measured in hours or minutes — not days or weeks — there's little room for mistakes and no room for confusion. Everyone has to understand what's happening, in real time, and have the means to do whatever is necessary to keep applications up and running optimally.
Ivan R. Judson
Ajit Mayya
Prabhakar Attaluri 
Stefan Dietrich
Suresh Sridharan
Alec McCullie
Matt Torrisi 
Paul Buchanan
David Dufour
Robert Endo
John Senay
Oleg Lola
