Application Performance Management
When I created my site as a collection of performance-related links and documents in 2004, I grouped links somewhat arbitrary, just to avoid “analysis paralysis”, hoping to get back soon and polish as needed. It is interesting that I haven’t changed much in grouping for these seven years (definitely many things changed, many changes are long time due, but with main grouping of information I wasn’t able to improve much). Whatever links I added, they mainly fit one (or few) existing category. And just now I realized that we have a new information category – Application Performance Management – which doesn’t fit in any existing category. I had a category for APM tools from the beginning – they were around for a while – but not for generic APM information (something beyond talking about just tool features). And finally I put together a list of great information sources into a new group, Application Performance Management:
Application Performance Engineering Hub
Application Performance, Scalability, and Architecture blog from Dynatrace
The Performance Management section of The Virtualization Practice
App Signal blog from AppDynamics
Seriti Consulting Blog the Web Operations and Management Specialists, by Stephen Thair
Many of them existed for a while, but it looks like the quantity finally got into a new quality and we see a new discipline emerging (instead of a marketing term to promote a special kind of tools). It is definitely related that with new technologies, such as virtualization and cloud computing, traditional resource monitoring is not enough anymore and there is a need monitor on application and service levels. Some mentioned above blogs are from tool vendors, but they provide great content far beyond discussing the tools.
