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Upgrading: Building for the Future
New Features

Upgrading: Building for the Future

ByTyler James 25th August 202124th October 2022

Over the last 6 years we’ve developed many cutting-edge features. We’re now focused on upgrading new technologies to existing functionality.

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RapidSpike Turns 6
Meet the Team / Why RapidSpike

RapidSpike Turns 6

ByTyler James 18th February 20215th May 2022

RapidSpike’s Head of Technology reflects back on how RapidSpike came to be, as RapidSpike turns 6.

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NEW Feature: Configurable Assurance Alerts
New Features

NEW Feature: Configurable Assurance Alerts

ByTyler James 15th January 20215th May 2022

NEW Feature: We have released a new upgrade to our alerts to include Configurable Assurance Alerts.

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Understanding Element Waterfalls
Page Performance Monitors / Performance / Technical

Understanding Element Waterfalls

ByTyler James 27th February 20205th May 2022

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
Synthetic User Journey Monitoring

Preventing Cookie Consent Banners in Synthetic User Journeys

ByTyler James 24th October 20195th May 2022

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
Page Performance Monitors / Synthetic User Journey Monitoring / Technical

Custom HTTP Request Headers

ByTyler James 4th September 20195th May 2022

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
Development / Technical

Using Vagrant to simplify building Virtual Machines

ByTyler James 24th July 20195th May 2022

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
Development / Technical

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

ByTyler James 1st July 20195th May 2022

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
Development / Technical

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

ByTyler James 5th October 20185th May 2022

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
New Features / Page Performance Monitors

Intelligent Page Monitoring: The Next Level

ByTyler James 10th August 20185th May 2022

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
Development / Technical

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

ByTyler James 1st September 20175th May 2022

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
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PHP: Asynchronous & Multithreaded Processing

ByTyler James 25th July 20175th May 2022

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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