2017-01-30 15:00
At Stackify we receive a lot of data from your apps to our Retrace APIs. We queue all of that data as soon as it gets to us and then we use separate background services to process the d… Read More
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2017-01-25 16:20
New Relic is one of the industry leaders for SaaS based application performance management. There are now at least 15-25 New Relic alternatives for APM tools in general. Probably about half… Read More
2017-01-24 16:29
One of the most requested features by New Relic users is support for .NET Core. If you aren’t familiar with it, .NET Core is Microsoft’s newest version of the .NET framework that… Read More
2017-01-24 03:21
Let Them Eat Cake!
Apologies for the bad pun. I couldn’t help it. Today, we’re going to talk about CakeBuild, and why Stackify decided to start using it. But first, a little back… Read More
2017-01-21 12:27
Your web application is throwing some sort of error or invalid response. Do you know how to troubleshoot IIS or ASP.NET errors on your servers? Luckily, Windows & ASP.NET provide several… Read More
2017-01-16 21:58
Jacob Cantele CTO/Concierge Auctions
I can’t tell you how many companies I’ve seen, of all sizes, who start out with an innovative mission to change the world. They acquire a bud… Read More
2017-01-16 16:36
Jason Taylor CTO/Stackify
Development teams work at top speed, and the environment in which they work is demanding and complex. Software is no longer considered done until it’s s… Read More
2017-01-16 16:33
Everyone wants to ship their code faster. Agile development and all the variants of it have helped companies release software more often and spend less time in large, waterfall plannin… Read More
2017-01-13 17:24
Developers love tools, and they tend to use a lot of them. Many of them are such a normal part of our daily lives and toolchain that we don’t even think of them as tools anymore.
Your… Read More
2017-01-08 03:00
One of the reasons I founded Stackify was because my developers didn’t have the tools they needed. The tools were designed for IT operations, the data my team needed was spread across… Read More
2017-01-04 18:47
I’ve used a number of Java open source libraries over the years in a variety of projects. Java developers are lucky to have a long list of community libraries to pull from. Here are a… Read More
2017-01-03 19:52
These three GetApp reviewers each won big for participating in our first product review contest!
A killer dev tee
A deck of Developers Against Humanity
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Ben B… Read More
2017-01-03 02:38
Note: This a republished independent review by Vince Panuccio. You can read his original review on his blog.
Of all the modern development practices which I use day to day, none other has be… Read More
2016-12-08 22:08
It is hard to imagine troubleshooting applications problems without debug logging. When all else fails and you can’t figure out what your code is doing, our answer is to always add mor… Read More
2016-12-08 20:58
Prefix is a lightweight profiler for .NET and Java developers. It enables developers to easily see what their code is doing. Including SQL queries, HTTP calls, errors, logs, and much mo… Read More
2016-12-08 02:15
Prefix enables developers to easily see what their code is doing as they write and test their code, including SQL queries, HTTP calls, errors, logs, and much more. Prefix is most often used… Read More
2016-12-06 16:07
I walked into our new office with a large bag on one shoulder filled with my precious desk chachkies and with my laptop bag and purse on the other shoulder. The first word that came to mind… Read More
2016-12-05 19:35
Prefix enables developers to easily see what their code is doing as they write and test their code, including SQL queries, HTTP calls, errors, logs, and much more. One of the best featu… Read More
2016-11-30 16:15
Let me start by saying that I am super perky. Not simply a “morning person.” Not just that one person that sings Happy Birthday the loudest over the cake and gets the card and gi… Read More
2016-11-15 19:52
Featuring Neelima Parasker, Founder of SnapIT Solutions.
About Neelima
Neelima launched SnapIT Solutions, a technology solutions company, in 2016 with a goal to make a positive impact on… Read More
2016-11-09 14:00
David vanBlaricom: founder of V4 Development
David vanBlaricom is a father, a tech nerd and starter. He has had a computer in front of him since 1984 with the Tandy 1000. Since then he… Read More
2016-11-02 13:00
Greg Dizzia: Founder of Omatum
My boss and I leaned over the foosball table, and between sounds of spinning metal rods and the clack of the ball against hard plastic defenders, I asked what… Read More
2016-10-26 13:00
My journey from developer to founder passed directly through the intersection of academia and industry: sponsored research in a graduate program at a state university. This location presents… Read More
2016-10-19 15:00
It seems that every founder had an experience, an epiphany or a mentor that inspired them to become an entrepreneur. I started my career as a developer of enterprise software. From coding fe… Read More
2016-10-13 13:00
Do you love the industry you work in? I don’t just mean “tech.” I mean, do you love the industry for which the product you’re building serves?
I didn’t love my… Read More
2016-09-29 18:36
Stackify has a big story to tell, and who better to tell it than Gary Busey.
Not really—we found someone even better.
The final product is not ready so this is just a tease, but g… Read More
2016-09-16 20:45
Episode 1.2 with Stackify’s Owner and CEO, Matt Watson, continues with the previous theme of writing better SQL Queries with a focus on ORMs and Entity Framework Read More
2016-09-14 03:02
In issue v1.2 of our BuildBetter eMag, we chatted with some of our favorite developers about their favorite tools. We found out that Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks! loves WebPageTest.org, an… Read More
2016-09-06 21:28
No one loves their job all the time. Sometimes we all need to vent.
Developers are good at venting, what they didn’t have (until this past Spring) was a safe and dedicated place t… Read More
2016-09-02 12:30
In the first episode of DevCheats, CEO and Founder of Stackify, Matt Watson, demonstrates some tips, tricks and free tools to help write better SQL queries.
Topics can be found at:
0:35 Us… Read More
2016-08-31 22:04
Brian Madsen is a full stack developer residing in Stockholm, Sweden and the founder of the .NET User Group on LinkedIn (LIDNUG) that boasts upwards of 52,000 members. In his career, he&rsqu&hell…Read More
2016-08-26 18:54
“I want to spend less time in QA, but I still want to go to production with full confidence in the release. The more time we spend in QA, the more time we waste – we just can&rsq&hell…Read More
2016-08-24 17:00
In interviewing six veteran developers for our Aug/Sept BuildBetter issue, we learned a lot about the tools they use in different parts of the development process. As a bonus, we also got to… Read More
2016-08-17 17:33
This month we’ve been talking a lot about tools we use for different phases of development. We even wrote a whole eMagazine dedicated to tools and interviewed six power devs to find ou… Read More
2016-08-15 20:20
I have had the privilege of starting my career at Stackify. Being fresh out of college and working with customers who were much more experienced in the industry than I was, taking on the rol… Read More
2016-08-08 16:29
I first started programming when I was about 13. I started out writing scripts to play old text based D&D games on bulletin boards while I was sleeping and at school. After school I went… Read More
2016-07-25 17:50
At Stackify we have been doing a lot of work with .NET Core over the last few months. We ported StackifyLib and our logging appenders over. We have also made sure that our app performance to… Read More
2016-07-21 18:43
Kurt Moore QA Lead / Stackify I have been on the Stackify team for just short of 2 years now and, let me tell you, it has been a wild ride. Until recently, I was th… Read More
2016-07-11 16:12
.NET Core is here and we have been busy doing quite a bit of work with it. We have multiple client libraries for sending data to the Stackify API for metrics, errors, logs, etc. To ensure th… Read More
2016-07-05 14:30
Matt Watson Founder & CEO / Stackify One of my favorite sayings is “Software is like fashion, there is no final version.” This statement is very true, and… Read More
2016-06-29 15:46
We love developers and we love Kansas City. That makes the Kansas City Dev Con a killer combo for us. Boon and all the organizers did a fantastic job this year. For those that missed… Read More
2016-06-27 19:05
The Stackify booth at the Kansas City Developers Conference lured a steady stream of participants eager for a free massage or a turn at the beanbag toss game to win a “Developers agai… Read More
2016-06-27 18:02
Dan Gidman Sr. Developer / Stackify Every morning I get up early, get on the highway and drive into work. There may be a little snag through the Grandview t… Read More
2016-06-10 20:10
Paul Marvin Sr. Developer / Stackify There are many reasons why Partitioned Tables in Azure SQL can be useful. In this post we’re going to focus on just o… Read More
2016-06-02 17:46
Max Hobbs CMO / Stackify Between the “experience economy” and “software eating the world,” all successful companies of the future… Read More
2016-05-27 15:11
Ben Capps Principal Engineer / Stackify Many of us have been in “that” situation. Our app is slowing down to a crawl, and memory consumption… Read More
2016-05-20 12:48
Lamar Clark QA Manager / Stackify So, how do you show management that you are actually testing (you know, besides saying “It all look’s good, ship i… Read More
2016-05-17 21:47
We love listening to .Net Rocks! Today’s podcast features our own Matt Watson chatting with Carl and Richard about the nasty stuff that slows your site down and what you can do… Read More
2016-05-13 20:14
Jason Taylor CTO / Stackify Bots. It’s all about the bots. And AI. It seems that ever since Microsoft //Build this year, I can’t read any tech publi… Read More
2016-05-10 14:38
Dusty Kline Principal Engineer / Stackify Here at Stackify, there is an ethos that you will find common to every member of the engineering teams: we love building so… Read More
2016-05-09 15:02
Are you a fan of the MS Dev Show? We sure are, especially this latest episode. Our very own Matt Watson sat down with Jason and Carl to talk about all sorts of stuff, including a deep… Read More
2016-05-02 20:22
build//better is a humble little eMag that we are putting together as another way to write about and share developer stuff we’re interested in and think can be useful. This… Read More
2016-04-28 20:45
Eric Martin Principal Engineer / Stackify A classic creational design pattern from the GoF is the factory method pattern. Examples of this pattern typically i… Read More
2016-04-13 18:01
We are excited to have you try out the latest version of Prefix which now supports ASP.NET Core RC1. We have been playing with the new version of ASP.NET since the early betas to ensure that… Read More
2016-04-12 14:42
Stackify founder and ASP.NET performance expert Matt Watson shares his expertise around five common ASP.NET performance problems. Learn how to identify and fix these &hell…Read More
2016-04-12 02:27
There are a lot of ways to to make a web service or web request in .NET. There are common libraries like HttpClient, WebClient, WCF generated clients, RestSharp, and of course, your l… Read More
2016-04-08 18:10
Developers are talking about us behind our backs. Thanks a lot #Prefix (BTW – we love to connect with app builders @stackify!)
The post Behind Our Backs appeared first on Stackif… Read More
2016-04-06 17:32
We had a great time at //build/ this year. Did you see us highlighted in the day 2 keynote? There were a lot of great announcements. We are particularly excited… Read More
2016-03-25 01:32
Today’s desktops and servers are amazingly fast. For most developers and apps, their actual code takes nearly ZERO time to execute. Almost all of the time is spent executing a database… Read More
2016-03-15 19:10
Prefix and Glimpse are similar tools. Both are designed to help developers understand what their code is doing and track performance. The two products are architected very differently and th… Read More
2016-03-14 18:27
You asked for it, we listened, and now Stackify is pleased to introduce single sign-on capabilities. Starting now, if you have a SAML 2.0 compliant identity provider (IdP), you may configure… Read More
2016-03-11 16:38
Almost every ASP.NET application uses some sort of database. But from my experience, the reporting of how long SQL queries take is wildly inaccurate. In this article I’m going to expla… Read More
2016-03-10 03:54
Receiving incoming data in an ASP.NET application is a common task that most app do. There are lots of ways of receiving data. Developers commonly write apps to handle HTML forms, file uploa… Read More
2016-03-08 20:25
We’ve been getting some great feedback about our new Prefix tool. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, get it here. We’ve been using this tool as we build our Stackify pr… Read More
2016-02-16 07:00
Hello developer. You’ve spent your career building shiny objects for other people, and now it’s time one was build for you. “Can it be free?” you ask. Absolutely! We… Read More
2015-12-23 17:00
Say it with me… “Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor PaaS Performance.” I’m sure you have heard the original 7 Ps before. My version is a little different… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The New Normal – Faster Release Cycles Today’s users (or customers) have rapidly evolving needs, are mobile, and expect 24/7 connectivity and reliability. As software product dev… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a stranglehold on the cloud computing market, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best and only option for you. Microsoft’s Azure is just behind AW… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Independence Day, the movie that cemented Will Smith as the biggest Summer box office star ever, features some of the craziest computer coding you’ll ever find in the movies. The class… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Programmer and Developer-specific News Websites Hacker News It’s like Reddit but for developers! Slash Dot A huge interactive source about all the latest blog post and news stor… Read More
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