Performance Tips

What’s the Difference Between a Regular Transaction and a Business Transaction in Mobile Apps?

Are you a meteorologist? If you’re reading this, probably not. Or, maybe you are. I don’t know. But if you think about it, just like a meteorologist tries to predict the weather, you probably find yourself trying to predict the future of your mobile apps. As developers and performance engineers, we often have to make

Why There Needs to be a Google Lighthouse for Mobile Apps

In today’s digital landscape, mobile apps are more than just a convenience. They’re a key part of daily life for billions of users around the world. With these users’ increasing reliance on mobile apps for everything from banking to entertainment, performance has become a critical factor that can make or break an app’s success. But

13 Top Tips for Optimizing Your Mobile App Performance

In the fast-changing world of mobile apps, good performance isn’t really a luxury anymore – it’s a must-have. Today’s users expect the apps on their devices to be fast, responsive, and efficient. And that’s on top of being actually useful to them. Any slowness or delay can lead to them becoming frustrated and, eventually, they

Enhancing IT Performance with SolarWinds: Strategies and Tools for IT Pros

In today’s quickly changing IT landscape, businesses face the big challenge of being able to manage and monitor their IT infrastructure effectively. SolarWinds, which has been a long-time fixture in the management and monitoring space, offers a wide range of solutions to help address these business challenges. By deploying SolarWinds’ products, businesses can gain visibility

Why SPAN Port is Bad for Packet Captures

Sometimes when you’re troubleshooting a network problem, you need to look at the packet data. It could be to find security threats or investigate strange network behavior. One of the common ways to capture packet data is with SPAN ports. But with the data deluge found on today’s networks and infrastructure, you can easily run into

How to Prevent Capturing Data for Security Reasons

Security should be top of mind these days. I wrote an article years ago about three lessons you can learn from doing a network security analysis. Taking the appropriate steps is even more crucial now than then. But how do you protect your organization when you need to help troubleshoot an application problem and need to capture

Where is the Best Location for a Packet Capture?

You just got a call about an application slowness issue. You’ve been told that it’s not an application issue and that it must be somewhere on the network. When you need to capture some data, for whatever reason, one question that inevitably comes up is where you should capture. What’s the best location for a