Application performance management and testing

Application performance management and testing is a constant battle, and software teams need to plan how they will tackle these tasks from the onset of development. This section reviews key practices and tools that help developers distribute workloads, test for potential failures, automate application monitoring and resolve performance issues quickly.

March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21
Sentry adds performance monitoring for React Native, more

Sentry has added support for React Native, Android, Xamarin and Flutter-based apps to its application performance monitoring platform to help developers find and fix bugs.
July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
New performance monitoring tool alerts developers in real time

New performance monitoring feature in Sentry's error tracking and release integration platform helps developers find and fix performance issues.
May 07, 2020 07 May'20
Oracle's Project Leyden uses static images to ease Java pain

Oracle's new Project Leyden introduces static images to help ease long-standing Java language shortcomings such as slow startup times and unwieldy footprints.
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Node.js 14 delivers more enterprise-friendly features

Node.js 14 is now available with new features aimed at the demands of enterprise developers, who have increasingly adopted the server-side runtime environment for JavaScript.

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