By App Man  As data has grown exponentially at many sites, companies have been forced to horizontally scale their data. Some have turned to sharding of databases like Postrres or MySQL , while others have switched to newer NoSQL data systems. There have been many debates in the last few years ab... Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,097 |
By App Man Imagine you’re an operations guy and you’ve just received a phone call or alert notifying you that the application your responsible for is running slow. You bring up your console, check all related processes, and notice one java.exe process isn’t using any CPU but the... Mar. 21, 2012 12:53 PM EDT Reads: 465 |
By App Man  Round Two – Last time I wrote a blog comparing APM versus network-based APM tools, which I still consider NPM at it’s core regardless of what some critics and competitors claim. Let me make one thing clear though, NPM is great for equipping IT network administrators to see ... Mar. 15, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,066 |
By App Man  Another three-letter acronym I see frequently mixed in with APM is NPM which stands for Network Performance Management. At first glance they look very similar. The distinction appears very subtle with just a one letter difference, but it speaks volumes because their core technologies a... Feb. 27, 2012 05:30 AM EST Reads: 1,106 |
By App Man There’s been a generational shift in how Java enterprise applications are created: they have been broken down from a monolithic architecture into multiple services, and they’re highly interconnected and distributed. How can Java developers and Operations teams adapt to thes... Feb. 16, 2012 07:20 PM EST Reads: 725 |
By App Man The X-Ray competition winner from last quarter came from an online travel company in France called Karavel who kindly documented their success with AppDynamics Pro. Karavel has been using AppDynamics extensively with custom dashboards, pro-actively alerting and also for optimizing slow... Feb. 10, 2012 04:57 PM EST Reads: 135 |
By App Man  A new year, a new iPhone and a new quarter. What else is new? How about a new company? Last month I was fortunate enough to join a stellar marketing team at one of the fastest growing enterprise software startups in the bay area. The company you ask? AppDynamics. Feb. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,127 |
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By App Man Last week a performance engineer called Ben Bramley published a blog entitled “APM Market Disruptors – AppDynamics and New Relic“. The purpose of his article was to provide an overview of AppDynamics and New Relic, whilst also summarizing the key approaches each vendo... Jan. 30, 2012 09:49 PM EST Reads: 880 |
By App Man  I have yet to meet anyone in Dev or Ops who likes alerts. I’ve also yet to meet anyone who was fast enough to acknowledge an alert, so they could prevent an application from slowing down or crashing. In the real world alerts just don’t work, nobody has the time or patience anymore, ale... Jan. 24, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,564 |
By App Man AppDynamics has experienced significant growth over the past three years, here’s a quick summary of our key highlights. Embed this image on your site: Source: AppDynamics: Application Monitoring Company Jan. 20, 2012 02:43 PM EST Reads: 184 |
By App Man When I joined AppDynamics less than a year ago we were situated in a 6,000 sq ft “cosy” office on 2nd and Brannan. On my first day I was greeted with a MacBook Pro and was asked to find a spare desk amongst the boxes and carnage of a typical startup environment. To my left ... Jan. 17, 2012 01:55 PM EST Reads: 232 |
By App Man It’s been a great start to 2012 for us at AppDynamics. Last week, we were recognized by Forrester Research in their APM market overview, and at the end of 2011, Gartner included us in their report “APM Innovators: Driving APM Technology and Delivery Evolution” which w... Jan. 9, 2012 05:04 AM EST Reads: 317 |
By App Man Interest in the Application Performance Management (APM) category is very high right now. To stay one step ahead of their clients, the Industry Analysts who cover the category and write research to advise their clients have been very busy. In December alone, there were six different... Jan. 6, 2012 10:58 AM EST Reads: 198 |
By App Man 2011 was an amazing year for AppDynamics. We experienced tremendous growth and success, largely down to the many customers around the world who believed in our vision, technology, and ability to help Dev and Ops teams better manage application performance in production. The Application... Jan. 4, 2012 09:05 AM EST Reads: 269 |
By App Man Embed this image on your site: Source: AppDynamics: Application Monitoring Company Dec. 20, 2011 03:16 PM EST Reads: 133 |
By App Man Hey Santa Claus, what’s happening man? Well, it’s that time of year again where unfortunately I have to work. Gift orders are up 50% and my elves are working their socks off right now stocking my warehouses for the big day. I honestly don’t know how I would have coped... Dec. 16, 2011 08:34 AM EST Reads: 170 |
By App Man We recently finished conducting our annual Application Performance Management survey. Over 250 IT professionals participated, and they shared insights such as: - Many Ops and Dev teams are anticipating growth in their applications by 20% or more - Over 50% are planning to move to the c... Dec. 14, 2011 06:52 AM EST Reads: 197 |
By App Man People in our industry always talk about IT complexity and cost. Cost is pretty easy to calculate, because IT budgets are allocated and audited every year. Complexity is very different–we know it exists, but we can’t really see or measure it. Complexity is often when our br... Dec. 12, 2011 10:49 AM EST Reads: 192 |
By App Man  One of my colleagues this week was consolidating the results from our recent Application Performance Management survey, and one interesting finding was that 40% of customers have at least one release cycle a month. Out of those respondents, one third experience a Severity-1 incident ea... Dec. 7, 2011 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,921 |
By App Man Peter Drucker proclaimed: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Do you know what’s “normal” for your mission-critical application? Actually, wait a second–with Halloween having just finished up, maybe the following Young Frankenstein refer... Nov. 12, 2011 10:46 AM EST Reads: 103 |
By App Man On Wednesday I delivered a keynote at WJAX in Munich. Everything went really well, but I was a little shocked at the response I got when I asked the audience “How many of you monitor the performance of your apps in production?” As I scanned the audience, I counted 9 out of ... Nov. 11, 2011 08:40 AM EST Reads: 268 |
By App Man I’ve always been a skeptic of JMX monitoring, largely because I felt it was often wrongly positioned as the pillar stone of application monitoring software. An application for me is a collection of business services or transactions that users perform, that causes application logi... Nov. 1, 2011 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 202 |
By App Man This is my first blog. I’ve been a sales engineer for three application performance management (APM) products over the last 7 years (CA Wily Introscope, SpringSource/Hyperic, and now AppDynamics). I hadn’t really considered myself much of a “blogger” because I ... Oct. 27, 2011 05:28 PM EDT Reads: 464 |
By App Man  The majority of us in IT are specialists, with the exception of a few VP of engineering who are “special” in their own “special” world of being “special”. What I mean by this is that no single person has the skills or experience to do everything well in IT. IT is too big for me to expl... Oct. 27, 2011 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,024 |
By App Man  What happens when mission critical Java applications slow down or keep crashing in production? The vast majority of IT Operations (Ops) today bury their heads in log files. Why? because thats what they’ve been doing since IBM invented the mainframe. Diving into the weeds feels good, ev... Oct. 19, 2011 10:54 PM EDT Reads: 3,645 |
By App Man Oct. 19, 2011 04:38 PM EDT Reads: 143 |
By App Man In May last year we launched AppDynamics Lite 1.0, the first free application performance management (APM) solution to monitor and troubleshoot a production JVM. 18 Months and 50,000+ users later I’m pleased to announce version 2 of AppDynamics Lite is here and the innovation has... Oct. 12, 2011 04:05 PM EDT Reads: 292 |
By App Man I made my first public appearance last week at JavaOne and had a blast mixing it with the dev community and the various exhibitors. Prior to being bitten by radioactive byte code, I’d attended JavaOne as a developer and had fond memories of vast crowds, packed session rooms, and ... Oct. 11, 2011 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 228 |
By App Man How intelligent is your monitoring agent? The agent should not do too much processing locally to ensure minimal impact to application performance by utilizing the smallest CPU and memory footprint possible. On the other hand, offloading some processing to the agent results in less netw... Oct. 11, 2011 12:28 PM EDT Reads: 145 |
By App Man  I thought it would be good to start blogging about my experiences with customers just so you get an idea of how important Application Performance Management (APM) has become.
A few weeks back I met with a customer who had issues, the expression on their face said it all. It started wi... Sep. 29, 2011 05:22 AM EDT Reads: 1,470 |
By App Man Gartner recently released their latest magic quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and in this report mentioned five key dimensions, two of which were Application Mapping and Transaction Profiling. These two dimensions are critical for users to identify performance bott... Sep. 23, 2011 05:12 AM EDT Reads: 373 |
By App Man On Tuesday, Gartner announced this year’s Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM). I’ll make a few observations from reading the MQ and then suggest 3 additional criteria that APM buyers should consider to make informed buying decisions. The research report starte... Sep. 22, 2011 04:37 AM EDT Reads: 322 |
By App Man There is a massive difference between migrating some code to the cloud and migrating an entire application to the cloud. Yes, the heart of any application is indeed its codebase, but code can’t execute without data and there lies the biggest challenge of any cloud migration. R... Sep. 16, 2011 10:58 AM EDT Reads: 243 |
By App Man Sep. 14, 2011 01:26 PM EDT Reads: 149 |
By App Man One of our partners recently outlined a logical framework for evaluating Application Performance Management (APM) vendors to help prospects and customers choose the right APM solution for their needs. Below is an extract along with a link to the full article: “We work with a lot ... Sep. 12, 2011 03:39 AM EDT Reads: 549 |
By App Man Back in April this year, we announced new monitoring support for NoSQL tecnhnologies like Cassandra and Memcached which was received really well by our customers. Due to further demand we’ve seen over the past few months from prospects and customers we’ve officially added M... Sep. 9, 2011 09:36 AM EDT Reads: 350 |
By App Man  I’m fed up of reading about Cloud outages, largely because all applications are created and managed by the most dangerous species on the planet – the human being. Failure is inevitable in regards to everything the human being creates or touches, and for this reason alone I ... Sep. 7, 2011 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,088 |
By App Man Welcome Cassandra, let’s start with a quick introduction of who you are and what you can do. I am a high-performance distributed scalable database. I am really good at doing lots of operations and growing as your data needs increase, and to top that all off I run on commodity hardware... Aug. 25, 2011 05:47 AM EDT Reads: 292 |
By App Man  There are many technical articles/blogs on the web that jump straight into areas of .NET code you can instantly optimize and tune. Before we get to some of those areas, it’s good to take a step back and ask yourself, “Why am I here?” Are you interested in tuning your app, which is slow... Aug. 24, 2011 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,328 |
App Man has a passion for making apps go faster ever since he was bitten by some radioactive byte code whilst working in Operations. He works with AppDynamics around the clock to help customers resolve performance pain and master application performance management.
