Learn about Node.js performance monitoring to ensure quality and risk-free software products.
Top 5 Web Application Monitoring Tools You Should Know
Web application monitoring tools can keep your business afloat. Period. Imagine this. You’re about to run a crucial end-of-season sale on your website. You’ve sent your emails, run social media campaigns, paid for advertisements, and stocked up your inventory; you are all set to let the cash register ring. However, on D-day, your website goes down. It’s unable to handle the …
ASP.NET Performance: 9 Types of Tools You Need to Know!
One of the best things about being a .NET developer is all the amazing ASP.NET performance tools that can make your life easier. This blog post is a list of the various types of ASP.NET performance tools at your disposal for finding and optimizing ASP.NET performance problems. Depending on the task, some of these tools will be much better than …
.NET Performance Optimization: Everything You Need To Know
It’s Friday afternoon, the majority of the development staff has already packed up and headed home for the weekend, but you remain to see the latest hotfix through to production. To your dismay, immediately after deployment, queues start backing up and you begin to get alerts from your monitoring system. Something has been broken and all evidence points to an …
How to Troubleshoot IIS Worker Process (w3wp) High CPU Usage
Having IIS performance problems? Do you have w3wp.exe high CPU usage? How do you troubleshoot IIS Worker Process High CPU usage? In this post, we’ll discuss some tips to identify what’s causing high CPU usage for your ASP.NET web applications. There are a lot of reasons that your IIS worker process (w3wp.exe) could be using a lot of CPU. We’ll …
Looking for New Relic Alternatives & Competitors? Learn Why Developers Pick Retrace
New Relic is one of the industry leaders for SaaS-based application performance management. However, many are starting to look for new relic alternatives and competitors. Probably about half of those alternatives are available as SaaS APM. New Relic Pricing Forcing You to Look for Alternatives? We talk to companies every day that are currently using New Relic but are looking …
Ruby Performance Tuning
There are many things to praise about the Ruby language: adherence to the object orientation paradigm, simplicity, elegance, and powerful meta-programming capabilities. Unfortunately, performance isn’t top of mind when people think about the many qualities of the language. For years, people have been denouncing the Ruby programming language as slow. Is it? Sure, some people will spread a fair amount …
Comparison: Node.js vs. PHP
Both Node.js and PHP are popular platforms for websites, APIs, and other types of web content. They have a few similarities, but their differences far outweigh those similarities. In this post, we’ll take a look at how they stack up against each other. It’s Node.js vs. PHP… let’s get ready for the showdown! Similarities First, let’s take a deeper look at …
5 PHP Performance Testing Tools You Need To Know
 To all the PHP developers out there, it is highly advisable that every application you build should have the right PHP performance testing tools to ensure that it runs correctly. There are a variety of tools available that can monitor your application’s performance. Choosing the right tool that caters to your organization’s needs should be a priority. In general, with …
MongoDB Performance Tuning: Everything You Need to Know
MongoDB is one of the most popular document databases. It’s the M in the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js). Unlike relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents for storing data. MongoDB is free, open-source, and incredibly performant. However, just as with any other database, certain issues can cost MongoDB its edge and drag it down. In …
How to Troubleshoot PHP Web Application Problems
Not all problems or issues in web development can be detected during development or testing. There are even web application errors that are hard to catch like runtime errors. Most PHP developers or server administrators will just look at the web server or database logs once an issue arises. They would just grep the logs for errors or timestamps in …
How to Ensure Your App Is Online and Working Properly
Your application is deployed. You checked a few endpoints, and they work as expected. You can log in and see the generic home page. There aren’t any exceptions in the logs—or at least any new ones. Great! But what does that mean for your customers and partners? Does everything work for them? And what about when things do go wrong? …
Amplify Feedback with Continuous Performance
As cloud becomes the norm, we’re letting others manage much of our infrastructures for us. Cloud providers offer common metrics like CPU, memory, storage, and networking so that you can stay up to date on the health of your system. And we worry less and less about those metrics with serverless architectures. But there remains a major concern that we …
Trace View Capabilities within Retrace: Determine Where Problems Are and How to Fix Them
Stackify’s APM+ product, Retrace, helps provide important insights into your code, and one of the important pieces to understand is the Traces view. The ‘traces’ can be found in the ‘Performance (APM+)’ tab when viewing a specific application. Traces allow you to view specific paths within an application with great detail. These can be extremely helpful in determining where problems …
Proven Steps to Achieving Deployment Success
2018 is the Year of Deployment. Frequent and stable deployments are just table stakes for companies these days, and DevOps teams are being expected to pick up the pace. Deploying an application can be an overwhelming process. With so many moving parts, it can be easy to get lost in the chaos. Not to mention, the actual deployment itself is …
Top 6 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools To Make Your Life Easier
Due to the complexity of current day web applications, ALM, or Application Lifecycle Management, is important now more than ever. It’s no longer just the coding and development stage that is crucial to an application’s success. It’s the initial Requirements (or Governance) stage, where teams decide what and how the application will be created and what problem it will seek …
8 Best Practices for Agile Software Deployment
Stackify CEO Matt Watson said the #1 problem with agile development is lack of confidence in deployment. Rapid deployment, one of agile’s greatest strengths, can also be a major weakness if testing and automation are not properly developed. Moving too fast without the right processes in place can lead to errors, downtime, and poor user experience. However, companies can gain …
What is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)?
 Speed is the name of the game in today’s software-driven world. The best companies deploy software updates daily, sometimes more. In order to reach such epic levels of productivity, businesses need a plan for managing their software from beginning to end. That’s where application lifecycle management (ALM) comes in. ALM helps businesses make smart decisions about their software and manage …
Developer Things #1: What is Stackify? Application Performance, Retrace & More with Jason Taylor
Matt Watson and Jason Taylor discuss the struggles they had as IT managers that led to why Stackify was created. Matt is the Founder & CEO of Stackify. Jason is the CTO and joined the company about 6 months after it started. Years ago most companies monitored the servers that ran their applications but not much else. Fast forward to today, …
.NET Event Counters – When logging isn’t fast enough
Over the past few years, I’ve become more and more convinced that having really good production logs is critical to running a successful software deployment. Logging has always been important, however if you’re deploying a web of microservices and a business transaction might span twenty different services, then searchable centralized logging is crucial. There are plenty of great tools available …
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