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Embracing Observability in the API Layer

A huge challenge teams face is establishing a unified, seamless view of their application and API components. By embracing a culture of observability, teams are able to better understand what is happening with their internal systems, what they are delivering to their users, where the problems are, and how to fix them fast.

Transform publicly available BigQuery data and Stackdriver logs into graph databases with Neo4j

In today’s blog post, we will give a light introduction to working with Neo4j’s query language, Cypher, as well as demonstrate how to get started with Neo4j on Google Cloud. You will learn how to quickly turn your Google BigQuery data or your Google Cloud logs into a graph data model, which you can use to reveal insights by connecting data points.

Next Generation APM: Unified User Experience Monitoring

While APM solutions have been mitigating poor user experiences since the early 90s, only recently have these tools begun to deliver on the promise of proactively identifying and diagnosing performance issues before users are impacted-but they are still far from perfect. For starters, why the lack of unified functionality? Why do we still need multiple tools in order to deliver a single APM solution? Or do we?