Making Your Apps Suck Less - with Application Performance Management

Nothing is worse than littering code with stopwatches, trace statements or any other "great" solution out there for getting insight into how it's performing in the real world. Application Performance Management tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic, DynaTrace, etc. allow deep inspection at run-time and drastically shorten the time to identify and resolve (MTTI and MTTR in the ITIL vernacular). This will walk through a sample application using AppDynamics and discuss how we typically go about identifying issues in production and how we identify them before they even ship using tools such as dynamic baselines, release comparisons, etc.