by Apica Systems | Oct 24, 2019 | Digital Experience, Load Testing, Media and Entertainment, Web
The thing with a television network having a hit TV show is that everyone wants to watch it. And while it can be huge for their bottom line, there is also a significant technical challenge when the program is being streamed. That’s what HBO experienced with the...
by Apica Systems | Jan 23, 2019 | Monitoring, Web
It seems today that the once boring IT team is now center stage to some incredible revolutionary moment in time. I’m talking about a moment like when the light bulb was invented – in our case the ever-increasing usage of IoT devices and the...
by Apica Systems | Sep 25, 2018 | Digital Experience, Monitoring, Web
Proactive DEM (digital experience monitoring) has become a critical piece of the puzzle for digital organizations, especially as application complexity continues to rise and cloud migration is no longer just a strategic idea. Automation is driving digital...
by Apica Systems | Sep 12, 2018 | Digital Experience, Monitoring, Uncategorized, Web
For the second piece in this series on monitoring for fun and profit we will focus on RUM/RUA. As was done previously will generically define RUM/RUA and cover a typical RUM set of metrics as a basis for a RUM starting point. I prefer the Real User Analytics (RUA) and...
by Apica Systems | Aug 20, 2018 | Load Testing, Web
Sven Hammar, founder and chief strategy officer, Apica The website crash experienced by Virgin Money Giving proved to be a very expensive mistake by the brand. Even temporarily ignoring the financial aspect, in the short-term it prevented friends, colleagues, and...
by Apica Systems | Feb 22, 2018 | Digital Experience, Monitoring, Web
To understand website availability monitoring, it’s important to understand synthetic monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring is a process initiated proactively by external agents (typically lightweight agents) that are meant to imitate actual end users and web...