Application Performance Management, a developer’s best friend!

Application Performance Management, a developer's best friend!

Presumptuous? Absolutely not.

Application Performance Management or APM serves primarily the developers. It just seems that there is a lack of evangelization about the usefulness of APM to the dev community.
If we had to use a metaphor, we could say that Application Performance Management (APM) is to an application what the famous black box is to an airplane.
Et une question persiste : pourquoi donc se priver encore d’APM ?

Fast bug resolution

Application Performance Management technologies are indeed the allies of the development teams. First of all, because they save them precious time in detecting bugs. Gone are the hours, days, or even weeks that teams spend determining whether an application, system, or network problem is present, sometimes without really having any other solution than to work around it - and without finally solving it.

Refocus developers on development

(not maintenance)

In addition, the APM allows developers to focus on what is essential for them: developing (design, code writing, testing ...). Many development teams spend less than half of their time on development, with the rest of the time often spent on maintenance. By relying on an APM tool, they save time on research and bug fixing; they can thus fully reposition themselves as designers and creators of applications and not as software malfunction correctors! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Simply identify the context of the anomaly

With APM, developers can understand incidents directly in production. The best way to ensure the effectiveness of a patch is to know the context in which the anomaly occurs. This step of identifying the context can sometimes be challenging. Here, the APM will provide precise information on the context of the incident (query parameters, exception code, user path, etc.) that will save developers valuable time in diagnosing and resolving the incident as quickly as possible. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Getting the right information to the right team

The new generation of DevOps-oriented APM solutions provides the link between IT teams.

The application running in production is often seen by production teams as a black hole. APM brings transparency and allows the various parties involved to have information and indicators that are understandable and accessible to everyone. This is also true in contexts where the interlocutors belong to different entities (host, outsourcer, support, ...) or when the application has a strong liability, often undocumented and where much of the knowledge of the operation has been lost over time.

Finally, the APM covers four main requirements, once the application is made available to users :
avoid playing ping pong between development and production in case of observed slowdown of the application
continuously improve application performance
Drastically reduce the time between the appearance of an incident and its resolution, or even anticipate it.
and understand the sources of dissatisfaction but also satisfaction of business users.
And with new business models, this technology is no longer reserved solely for the supervision of large-scale business applications. It is at the service of all the company's applications and is much more accessible than one might imagine.
So, what if APM finally freed the development teams from much of what slows them down, to allow them to give the best of themselves?