Have you had a chance yet to play with Azure Functions? Here at Stackify, we’re pretty excited about this capability on Azure and the promise that it holds for building rapidly scale-able event-based processing with little to no management overhead! We’ve also heard from a lot of you asking when Retrace would be able to support this new serverless architecture. …
Stackify’s Linux Agent 2.0 & Java APM 1.15 Release Is Here!
Stackify is thrilled to announce our latest release, Linux Agent 2.0 and Java APM 1.15. We think you’ll be excited about this release, too, and here are just a few reasons why. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. What’s New in Our Linux Agent 2.0 and Java APM Release? In this latest release, we’ve added additional agent installation options and …
Prefix New Release: Prefix v3.0 is Here!
After months of hard work, we’re thrilled to release the latest version of Prefix, Prefix v3.0. In this new version, we fixed a number of bugs and added a few major enhancements including: No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. A major .NET profiler update Better remote tracing New feature: the ability to disable suggestions Improved Remote Tracing with Prefix v3.0 …
Understanding & Profiling C# Async Await Tasks
Microsoft and the .NET community have made asynchronous programming very easy with their implementation of async await in C#. The latest versions of ASP.NET heavily utilize it to improve performance. Many performance monitoring and profiling tools struggle to support and visualize the performance of asynchronous C# code. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Stackify’s Prefix & Retrace products both have excellent support …
What Is Telemetry? How Telemetry Works, Benefits of Telemetry, Challenges, Tutorial, and More
Telemetry is just one of the benefits of Stackify’s Retrace tool, a powerful feature that’s a core component of our Application Monitoring service. If you’re wondering why telemetry should matter to you, then look no further – read on to learn more about telemetry, how it works, and why it matters. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Definition of Telemetry …
Looking for New Relic Alternatives & Competitors? Learn Why Developers Pick Retrace
No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. New Relic is one of the industry leaders for SaaS based application performance management. There are now at least 15-25 New Relic alternatives for APM tools in general. 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 …
Essential developer tools to find bugs… before they get to production
Developers love tools, and they tend to use a lot of them. Many of them are such a normal part of our daily lives and toolchain that we don’t even think of them as tools anymore. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Your computer, the Internet, a simple text editor, and source code repositories are a good example of this. …
APM pricing is now affordable for all developers, and why they should care
APM Pricing has been historically out of control… One of the reasons I founded Stackify was because my developers didn’t have the tools they needed. The tools were designed for IT operations, the data my team needed was spread across too many different tools, and the pricing was very expensive. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Sadly, several years later, …
Stackify Retrace APM for .NET Core
The Stackify team has been playing with .NET Core since the first beta came out. It was critical to us to ensure that we had amazing support for arguably the future of all .NET development. We first supported .NET Core in Prefix when .NET Core RC1 came out and have done many updates since then. We are excited to announce that …
Case Study: Carbonite and Stackify’s Retrace
”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.” [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JH_vpNlf7k[/embedyt] 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 …
What’s new for Retrace v4 for .NET
After months of hard work, we are excited to be releasing v4.0 of our .NET agent. The last major update v3.0, came out 6 months ago. This release has several major changes you should be aware of plus some exciting new features. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. Speed, baby, speed! Most importantly, we have spent many days doing nothing …
Getting to Production Faster – With More Confidence
“I want to spend less time in QA, but I still want to go to production with full confidence in the release. The more time we spend in QA, the more time we waste – we just can’t expect to catch everything in testing, our product is too complex and our QA team is too small. Can you guys help …
What is code profiling? Learn the 3 Types of Code Profilers
No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. For those of you do do not know a lot about Stackify, we do a lot of things around application performance and have actually written a couple profilers ourselves. We know a lot about code profiling for .NET ans Java. Today I want to talk about the three different types of profilers and …
Carbonite: “We turned on Retrace, within minutes we’ve identified the performance issue”
No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out anytime. ” 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 …
Case Study: Ticket Solutions and Stackify’s Retrace
[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mOPG9rXjg[/embedyt] 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. No worries, no SPAM. Opt-out …
Case Study: ABPathfinder and Stackify’s Retrace
[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QQGGXfoQ4[/embedyt] 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 …