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A flexible platform that would allow me to quickly deploy (blue-green) across different phases in my application lifecycle = hybrid cloud

I'll leave that to the more qualified on this chat - but iOS and Android seem to be doing ok!!

some of the cloud stacks are very nice #AWS #Bluemix among others.

so it was a loaded question! #bluemix etc are good starting points

Node.js Angular.js autoscaling, queuing, minification and anything event driven that yield asynchronous apps. concurrency realtime that is fast is what I see and want

Node.js Angular.js autoscaling, queuing, minification and anything event driven that yield asynchronous apps. concurrency realtime that is fast is what I see and want

And the @Bluemix guy didn't even MENTION #Bluemix in his response ;-)

@marvingoodman lol!!!!

Node and Angular are kings of course, but I'm still fond of Java... on top of that though, a platform as a service like Bluemix does wonders for easy deployment! And I would want my database as a service, maybe MongoDB through MMS

its all about the end user experience on the mobile device we have become very impatient! if an app doesn't perform or is unstable we move quickly on to another one

some apps you may not be interested in APM but other biz critical etc certainly need it

Is it harder to resolve issues since there are so many different networks, devices, operating systems, etc?

there are but the best practices etc we have should apply, I guess it comes down to do you want to monitor and manage or are you happy just to take a chance!

@AmandaTene Hi how are you!

yep, the growth of variety of devices has definitely made it harder to resolve issues. On top of that, native mobile apps are often rated and deleted fast... Getting a view of what happens on the device is now primordial to great UX

I've deleted 3 apps in the past week because they were too slow, crashed or had a weird UX

hey @davidmetcalfe12 :)

Mobile brings you the paradigm of viewing performance from various devices, carrier networks, geographies, user groups. The focus is primarily on end user experience management

it has changed big time bc as said above if performance sucks users will delete apps bc user experience it #1 priority - value is in the eyes of the user

@its_pi agree

Q7 is posted above. Please pull down the update. We're almost to the end (8 Q's total)

UX, UX, UX!

is it available would get my vote

@timbouhour @its_pi what do you think?

I'd want to know if people were leaving because it's too slow. There are tolerance levels for slow performance.

I would go with transaction failure rate. Similar to availability, but a little more specific to how it's affecting my users

good idea @marvingoodman, it would be good to set thresholds when the speed reaches levels that might start turning users away

is it available to the user - i.e. not the server

greatly seeing a big upsurge in the use of analytics from my customer base

I completely agree David. I'm seeing more and more use of streaming analytics and log analytics to detect, analyze, and solve problems.

Anaytics is changing the game around the ability to really extend the correlation and de-duplication capability so a more proactive IT Ops capability can be realised

Would you say that analytics are speeding up problem resolution or preventing problems all together?

it depends on how you deploy it, it can do both! Seasonality, historical, near-real time

@davidmetcalfe12 Is the use of analytics new, or just the *kind* of analytics people are using?

Q3 has been posted above but you can keep discussing this question anytime.

It is certainly changing the infrastructure requirements for the workload

operations analytics are the biggest part, managing logs and events... But business analytics are making their way as well, by correlating performance issues to business and revenue impact we become smarter and able to make better decisions

hmm good question as not just about the technology - need to think also about process and maturity of these etc

Automation is also key here as is the instrumentation of the application

many issues can be fixed in an automated way... But then sometimes you get the doozy, affecting just a small (but important set) of customers, always recurring, and with no apparent root cause. That one can take weeks or months!

Weeks or months? Yikes! That downtime must be detrimental to revenue and user satisfaction.

get some devops!! and some collaborative operations

agile is a forcing function for dev teams again the key is to keep the eye on the prize the main purpose of that app in the first place - yes #devops is big part of this

People can learn more about IBM Collaborative #Operations here: http://ibm.co/1GGFni... #devops

Use the same tools in dev/test and production

use the same standards and set of data to optimize user experience. One big issue with the silos is good performance may be achieved at each step (dev, test, build), but may still end up poor in production.

massively within my customer base - the event sources are getting greater every day

CIO/CTO are worried about the amount of event traffic that IoT devices will put on the network, which is already stressed

True, especially health data! We hear that @Fitbit users took 2.4 trillion steps in 2013 alone and that's surely doubled by now.

#IoT creates more data which in turn creates a problem for what to watch and how to store the data

@ibmservicemgmt need to be clever on managing event rates, start by doing as much as possible at the edge of the network

machine-to-machine communications don’t follow the typical unicast traffic models so this might be a challenge for existing monitoring systems

what about traffic activity that happens at sub-minute levels so the less frequent traffic or bursty traffic can get lost

With IOT, ability to monitor performance & availability from different devices/data sources becomes critical

@its_pi totally agree diversity of devices is issue and their data platforms are something to consider..integration is important to think about - getting stuck in data silos is problematic

Q5 is posted above, feel free to keep discussing this and other questions though.