Carbonite and Retrace APM

Carbonite: “We turned on Retrace, within minutes we’ve identified the performance issue”

Alexandra Altvater Stackify Product & Company Updates

” We turned on APM+ and within a couple of minutes were able to identify the issue and a few hours later push out a fix.” Who is Carbonite? Carbonite is a leading provider in backup recovery and archiving solutions for small businesses and home users.  We fuel continuity by providing powerful yet simple tools to help keep businesses in …

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How to future-proof your app to prevent performance issues

Alexandra Altvater Developer Career Development, Insights for Dev Managers

When John F. Kennedy said that “the time to repair the roof is while the sun is shining” in his State of the Union address, application development was probably the last thing on his mind. Yet his notion of preparing in advance to pre-empt tough times is something that can certainly be applied to the world of app development. As …

APM + the best application performance management

Retrace is Transforming The Way .NET Developers Optimize Application Performance

Alexandra Altvater Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources, Stackify Product & Company Updates

Today at Stackify, we’re very proud to announce the launch of our new product, Retrace APM+. This first release specifically targets ASP.NET, but as the platform continues to grow, support will be added for other popular programming languages. More details will be announced later this year. Stackify Retrace builds on top of the great foundation of our current offering, known for great real-time …

C# Redis – Implementing Cache Tagging

Alexandra Altvater Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources

Redis has quickly become one of the top open source key value stores around. We at Stackify have been using Windows Azure’s Managed Cache but have had a long history of intermittent problems with it. So we decided it was time to bite the bullet and give Redis a try, which Azure now supports and actually recommends it over their previous …

Application troubleshooting market research

52% of application issues took over half a day to fix – market research

Alexandra Altvater Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources, Stackify Product & Company Updates

Stackify’s Application Troubleshooting Survey Reveals Integrated Tools Lead to Significant Response Time Improvements. 37% of developers rely on user notifications to identify issues, yet integrated tools reduce customer impact by 62%   Embed Our Infographic On Your Site! <img src=”https://stackify.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/igillath7.png” alt=”Application troubleshooting infographic – An Infographic from Stackify” width=”100%”/><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <p>Embedded from …

The evolution of the world of app monitoring

Alexandra Altvater Developer Career Development, Insights for Dev Managers

‘Perfection would be a fatal flaw for evolution’ In technology, as in life, everything evolves, grows, develops, mutates and eventually goes away, being replaced with improved versions. In the past several years, application development evolved and applications have come to play a more centric part of many businesses, even those that traditionally were not software players. (Walmart’s sophisticated inventory management …

Ticket Solutions & VeriShip Choose Stackify’s Solution for DevOps Insight

Alexandra Altvater Stackify Product & Company Updates

Ticket Solutions, for over 17 years, has specialized in finding premium seating to any sport, concert, or theatre event worldwide. The company prides itself in providing unrivaled service to their customers. VeriShip, established in 2006, is the leader in small parcel auditing, analytics, reporting and technology solutions. Their solutions are distributed in different environments using both physical and virtual servers.  …

Case study: ABPathfinder Selects Stackify’s Application Monitoring Solution

Alexandra Altvater Stackify Product & Company Updates

We’ve today announced today that ABPathfinder  the developer of special education and therapy management solutions, selected Stackify’s solution to provide DevOps insight and proactive application health monitoring to its solution. To assure uptime and performance, ABPathfinder uses Stackify to help monitor their production environment.The Application Dashboard helps them understand their customer experience and the overall application health.“In our NOC we …

Case Study: Ticket Solutions and Stackify’s Retrace

Alexandra Altvater Stackify Product & Company Updates

  Who are Ticket Solutions & VeriShip? Ticket Solutions, for over 17 years, has specialized in finding premium seating to any sport, concert, or theatre event worldwide. The company prides itself in providing unrivaled service to their customers. VeriShip, established in 2006, is the leader in small parcel auditing, analytics, reporting and technology solutions. Their solutions are distributed in different …

Case Study: ABPathfinder and Stackify’s Retrace

Alexandra Altvater Stackify Product & Company Updates

Who is ABPathfinder? ABPathfinder develops special education and therapy management solutions that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of special education and autism therapy programs. The cloud-based platform provides tools which aid therapists and para-professionals to build treatment plans, log data and track progress for multiple students simultaneously. In return educators can maximize their time and effort to invest in each …

C# Logging Best Practices

How to Take Logging to the Next Level With Improved .NET Logging Best Practices

Alexandra Altvater Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources

Logging. We should be doing this better by now! What do I mean? There are several logging frameworks and libraries out there, and most developers use one or more of them every day. A few examples off the top of my head for .Net developers are log4net, NLog, elmah, and Serilog. They are simple, easy to use and work great for …

Fragile to Agile

Tips to Improve App Quality and Delivery: Make Agile Less Fragile

Alexandra Altvater Insights for Dev Managers

Agile. You can’t avoid hearing it wherever you go even though “agile” means different things to different people. In some shops, agile means extremely small sprints that are continuously deployed, sometimes multiple times per day. For others, it means the same old waterfall-style development, but they have burndown charts, daily stand-up meetings, and maybe someone with the title of “SCRUM …

5 Companies to Watch in the Silicon Prairie

Alexandra Altvater News

This past year, I was introduced to the Silicon Prairie when I hosted Big Omaha and spoke at Thinc Iowa. What’s the Silicon Prairie you ask? It’s just the hottest area in the country for tech startups that you never heard of.

Windows Azure Diagnostics: The Bad, The Ugly, and a Better Way

Alexandra Altvater Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources

If you’re a .Net web developer today, no doubt you’ve enjoyed watching Windows Azure grow up over the past couple of years. The platform has scaled, stabilized (mostly), and added on a slew of great (and sometimes overdue) features. What was once just an endpoint to host a solution, developers today have tremendous flexibility and options in the platform. Organizations …