We could just as easily have entitled this article The Importance of APM TO Web Developers, but in fact, we want to underscore both that point and the importance of Web developers themselves (and all they do with APM) to the overall success of a business.
APM (application performance management) is now an integral part of quality control for software development companies, as well as to any company with an IT department and that develops software for strictly in-house use.
Modern APM processes involve many steps and elements and require a highly skilled Web development team that can cooperate efficiently from beginning to end to yield optimized software that meets all goals and is as error-free as possible upon launch. And APM makes this happen in as little time as possible through a streamlined, end to end process.
Modern APM Tools Change the Industry
Whether your developed software will be used by clients or by employees, web developers use APM systems and tools to track down coding errors both in the software itself and in distant servers. Modern web developers typically handle actually fixing detected bugs rather than simply reporting them and waiting for a solution, which saves your company valuable time.
The use of up to date systems like Retrace allows APM for developers to debug and optimize performance every step of the way instead of just at the end. That makes the process smoother and ultimately makes debugging easier.
Detailed, code level tracing by Retrace allows greater targeting of problems than ever before.
And management of APM is now integrated with log management whici facilitates simplified overall management of the process.
The Changing Meaning of “Application”
In recent years, software systems have grown enormously in complexity, and therefore, methods of monitoring, analyzing, and debugging them must also change. The meaning of “application” in Application Management Performance has come to include interdependent networks of specific services that each have their own unique performance requirements.
Everything has to be scaled individually (but also with an eye to its relation to other related systems) in today’s app world. This “fragmenting” of applications into cooperative families of software rather than individual loner software pieces, requires up to date APM tools and developers who never fall even a few years behind the times.
Thus, the very complexity of today’s software demands top-tier APM run by top developer talent.
Why Your Business Depends on APM
In days gone by, a lot of software was updated every year, month, week, or at most every day. Now, it can be hours, minutes, and seconds. The closing of this time gap greatly increases the importance of fast, effective APM and accompanying development teams.
Unless you keep Web pages and online apps (especially mobile apps) up and running, loading within a few seconds, and free of significant errors, you lose current customers and fail to convert prospects. Many people never use an app again after a bad performance experience, especially a first bad experience.
Modern APM is agile, able to scale and update in real time and it makes much of this work automated and almost effortless once set up. Only minimal maintenance and troubleshooting may be needed from time to time. And that frees up IT workers to focus on their next big development instead of being bogged down in constant maintenance tasks.
Whether it be gaining/retaining end-users of an app or ensuring business software doesn’t falter and create downtime or at least “less productive time,” modern APM tools in the hands of well trained developers are crucial to ensure software management is fast, affordable, “nimble” and optimally effective.
