In today’s digital age, organizations rely on powerful applications to meet the needs of their customers, partners, and employees. However, users are known to be fickle and may switch to competitors if they experience unacceptable performance.
5 Ways To Improve Application Growth and Performance
Here are five tips for improving application performance, even in distributed, cloud-native application environments.
Tip 1: Monitor All Transactions for All Users
Some Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions are designed to support the amount of big data generated by today’s complex and dynamic application environments. Is not extensible. You need to ensure that your APM solution is designed to support the petabytes of big data required for forensics and audits, and to provide lightweight agents that don’t overwhelm your resources. You can also apply advanced analytics to identify patterns and surface anomalies in application performance. Sample data alone does not provide enough data to identify problems early and resolve complex, intermittent problems.
Tip 2: Monitor What You Don’t Control
An application can consist of hundreds or thousands of components, some of which are in your environment and others from third parties. This is why visibility is important for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, not just third-party API calls. You (customers, partners, employees) are responsible for the end-to-end experience regardless of whether the services you provide are third-party or not. Monitoring cloud services can help hold service providers accountable and meet organizational service level expectations. The best way to do this is at the point of consumption, the user’s device.
Tip 3: Understand the End-User Experience
Without a way to understand the transaction from the user’s perspective, it’s difficult to provide a great experience for your customers, partners, and employees. Mobile poses even greater challenges as devices, operating systems, and networks can change dramatically.
Developers need to monitor applications in real-time to understand performance, how applications interact with networks and devices, and how performance impacts user experience by monitoring end-user experience.
Tip 4: Integrate APM Into Your Change Management Process
Application and infrastructure changes inherently reduce visibility and increase application complexity. “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Unfortunately, according to industry analysts, only 5% of his business-critical applications are monitored. However, that number is expected to grow to 20% by 2021 as application performance becomes more critical to business performance. Integrating APM into your change management process allows you to create performance baselines, identify discrepancies, and proactively investigate and resolve application performance incidents.
Tip 5: Shift APM Left
The rise of DevOps has made it possible to integrate APM earlier in the product development cycle, allowing for cheaper and earlier bug fixes. This means giving his DevOps team access to his APM tools. This helps DevOps teams better understand the user experience, gain insight into user behavior, and isolate the root cause from performance issues to method calls. By integrating APM with your DevOps practices, you can increase the frequency of your releases while improving the quality of those releases.
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