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Christian Colombo on FSM-based Monitoring and Runtime Verification

Topics
Monitoring Tools,
AOP,
Java,
Modeling,
Model Driven Engineering

Larva is a runtime monitoring system that uses AspectJ to weave monitoring into Java code and can check the correctness of the program using an FSM; Elarva is an Erlang version of the tool.

News about Monitoring

AppDynamics Lite 2 Released - Adds Monitoring Support for Free

Topics
Operations,
Java,
Performance & Scalability

Application Performance Measurement (APM) vendor AppDynamics has released AppDynamics Lite version 2.0, bringing new features from their commercial product into the free version.

New Relic Offers Real-time Performance Monitoring for Heroku Java users

Topics
Operations,
Java,
SaaS,
Cloud Computing,
Performance & Scalability

New Relic is bringing its well-regarded web application performance service to Java applications running on Heroku's PaaS. The add-on is offered in two versions, a free standard version, and a professional subscription service currently costing $0.06 per dyno hour. New Relic have also announced Python support for their stand-alone product.

Ruby VM Roundup: MacRuby 0.8, Rubinius 1.2, MRI 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 Updates

Topics
Runtimes,
Debugging,
Ruby

A whole batch of new Ruby VM releases is available. MacRuby 0.8 fixes bugs and begins the path to 1.0. Rubinius 1.2 improves memory efficiency and the debugger. MRI received new patch levels: 1.8.7-p330 and 1.9.2-p136, the first big bug fix update to 1.9.2.

Articles about Monitoring

Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring

Topics
Monitoring Tools,
Operations,
Ruby on Rails,
Cloud Computing,
Ruby

Scout is an extensible server and application monitoring service which focuses upon ease of installation and configuration. Scout offers default alerts to help administrators understand how the application is behaving under various loads as well as allowing developers to create plugins to extend Scout.

Presentations about Monitoring

Deriving Agility from SOA and BPM - Ten Things that Separate the Winners from the Losers

Topics
Agile,
Enterprise Architecture,
Business Process Management,
Governance,
SOA

In this presentation from SOA Symposium 2010, Manas Deb and Clemens Utschig-Utschig discuss how to derive business agility from SOA and BPM, motivations for agility, developing and nurturing agility, influencers and dependencies, how SOA and BPM enable agility, pitfalls and recommendations for organizational culture, and pitfalls and recommendations for business and technical architectures.

Obscured by Clouds

Topics
Cloud Computing,
Architecture,
Methodologies

Russ Miles and Toby Hobson outline many factors to be considered when adopting a cloud solution – what type of cloud, which vendor, what technology, how is it related to the business value, SLA, should it be considered early, geo-location constraints, etc. –, creating a wider view of the cloud from the development and business perspective.

Interviews about Monitoring

Jon Brisbin on Virtualization and Private Clouds

Topics
Virtualization,
Operations,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Software Appliances,
Architecture

Jon Brisbin discusses his experience with Virtualization and reasons why companies would use Private Clouds, eg. regulation compliance. Also: the future role of operations, monitoring, and more.

John Leach on Virtualization and Unix Tools for the Data Center

Topics
Operations,
Ruby on Rails,
Cloud Computing,
Data Access,
Ruby,
Virtualization,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Linux,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability

John Leach explains how Brightbox uses Virtualization in the data center and whether Virtualization causes performance problems. Also: a look at a few Unix tools and Linux features that Ruby developers might not know about.