With our new service platform and the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath Technology with the Gomez Performance Network, we are proud to offer an APMaaS solution that sets a higher bar for complete user experience management, with end-to-end monitoring technologies that include real-user, synthetic, third-party service monitoring, and business impact analysis. To showcase the capabilities we [...]
Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or that have already done so and are now getting serious about operations. This leads to some interesting discussions about how to monitor Hadoop properly and one thing pops up quite often: Do [...]
We have been blogging about the same problems and problem patterns we see while working with our customers over the past few of years. There have always been the classic application performance landmines in the areas of inefficient database access, misconfigured frameworks, excessive memory usage, bloated web pages and not following common web performance best [...]
The other day I ran a Pig script. Nothing fancy; I loaded some data into HBase and then ran a second Pig job to do some aggregations. I knew the data loading would take some time as it was multiple GB of data, but I expected the second aggregation job to run much faster. It [...]
The other day I was looking at a web application that was using MongoDB as its central database. We were analyzing the application for potential performance problems and inside 5 minutes I detected what I must consider to be a MongoDB anti pattern and had a 40% impact on response time. The funny thing: It [...]
It’s time for Cloud Expo and QCon again! This time I will give two presentations at Cloud Expo and one on QCon. On Monday the 5th of November, the opening day of Cloud Expo, I will explain how to do performance analysis and management in Hadoop and NoSQL environments. I will talk about this topic [...]
Traditional Enterprise Database vendors often bring up the lack of professional monitoring and management tool support for NoSQL solutions. Their argument is that enterprise applications require sophisticated tuning and monitoring of the database in order to ensure a performant and smooth operation. NoSQL Vendors, while arguing that this lack is not enough to favor RDBMS [...]
Based on the recent hype, we must all be convinced that Big Data is the opportunity of the decade. While business leaders are imagining the potential uses for these massive amounts of information, technical teams are struggling to harness its power. Perhaps the most practical challenge involves application performance – because the application is what [...]
In the last weeks I visited several Cloud and Big Data conferences. Especially the Big Data Innovation in Boston gained me a lot of insight. Some people only consider the technology side of BigData technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra. The real driver however is a different one. Business analysts discover Big Data technologies as the [...]
Thinking cloud is thinking application-centric. Organizations utilize public cloud offerings because they want to focus on their revenue-generating applications rather than managing infrastructure. And from there we already can draw the significance of Application Performance Management (APM) in public cloud environments. If we focus on our application, a focus on its performance is essential. Even [...]
