Author Archives for James Tyler

Understanding Element Waterfalls

James Tyler, February 27, 2020

Read Time: 5min

Understanding Element Waterfalls can help identify issues that affect user experience. We explain how you can read and understand Element Waterfalls.

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Preventing Cookie Consent Banners in Synthetic User Journeys

James Tyler, October 24, 2019

Read Time: 4min

Cookie consent banners and popups can be annoying, however cookie consent banners can be prevented in your synthetic user journeys if you know how.

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Custom HTTP Request Headers

James Tyler, September 4, 2019

Read Time: 2min

Setting custom HTTP request headers enables our clients to simplify their firewall IP whitelist management.

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Using Vagrant to simplify building Virtual Machines

James Tyler, July 24, 2019

Read Time: 3min

Discover how to create a Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine (VM) with a local directory mounted on it to make it easier to code on.

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How to manually build a Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine server with Oracle VirtualBox

James Tyler, July 1, 2019

Read Time: 2min

This post will describe how to manually build a Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine (VM) server using Oracle's VirtualBox virtualisation software.

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Ubuntu 16.04: How to manually compile PHP 7.2 with ZTS enabled and the pThreads module installed

James Tyler, October 5, 2018

Explaining how to manually compile PHP 7.2 with the necessary options to enable ZTS and install pThreads, giving you access to true multi-threading in PHP.

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Intelligent Page Monitoring: The Next Level

James Tyler, August 10, 2018

We've greatly improved our IPM software. Read on to see what this means for you and your page monitoring statistics!

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Ubuntu 16.04: How to install ZTS enabled PHP7 and the pThreads module

James Tyler, September 1, 2017

This post shares some insights from our dev team on some of the complex and involved tech issues we have encountered. This week: Installing PHP7 and the pThreads Module

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PHP: Asynchronous & Multithreaded Processing

James Tyler, July 25, 2017

This post shares some insights from our dev team on some of the complex and involved tech issues we have encountered. This week: Async & Multithread Processing

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Monitoring Private Servers with RapidSpike Connect Anything

James Tyler, June 5, 2017

Keep track of your vital server statistics with the powerful and versatile reporting in RapidSpike via our Connect Anything monitor.

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IP Address Whitelisting

James Tyler, October 20, 2016

As with any monitoring system, our clients often need to whitelist IP addresses to allow us... View Article »

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Announcing our Latest Update: Synthetic User Journey Monitoring

James Tyler, April 29, 2016

We're pleased to announce our latest major feature: User Journey monitoring! Take a look to see what we've been up to.

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Forefront No9 – Sponsored by RapidSpike

James Tyler, November 24, 2015

We've sponsored the latest meetup of Leeds tech community Forefront, taking place this Wednesday (25th November). Come grab your free beer!

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WebApp Performance Slashed by 99.6%

James Tyler, November 20, 2015

As a company who develop 21st century web monitoring software that can measure uptime and performance, we can hardly allow our own WebApp performance to be poor, can we?

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