Top Three Articles on Application Performance Management Best Practices

Posted by on Jul 13, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

I noticed that a lot of the top hits on Google for “application performance management best practices” are out dated at best and irrelevant at worst. The top hit – “Improving weblogic application performance” – just had its eighth birthday (the iPhone wasn’t even out then), and the runner up – “Improving .net application performance” – has a disclaimer saying that the content is outdated. Therefore, I decided that I would curate my top three application performance management articles on best practices in order to help better...

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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Posted by on Jul 11, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Funny thing about monitoring is that what you don’t know could actually be hurting you. There could be something going on in the background that is slowing down overall performance and you could be completely in the dark about it. As your company builds the software and hardware infrastructure inside your enterprise, new systems are typically layered on top of old ones. In fact, there could be systems in place which were put there long before you got there and which you have no knowledge of, yet which could be having an impact on performance. If it’s your job to make sure the...

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5 Individuals Who Could Own Performance Monitoring

Posted by on Jun 30, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Web site performance monitoring is more important than you think. In fact, it can have a direct link to the bottom line, which is why it’s critical that someone take ownership of it in your organization. Who that individual is not as important as the fact that someone is watching these numbers, setting performance monitoring goals and looking for ways to improve web site performance monitoring over time. Without a person in charge, web site performance monitoring could be reduced to watching numbers on a screen, and as we have written here before, it’s essential to understand...

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