Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management?

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Percona provides a drop-in replacement solution for MongoDB Community Edition that is based on the same upstream code delivered by MongoDB, Inc.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Monitoring-as-code requirements at Dynatrace. A GitOps approach to observability.

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Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. Flame graphs are a graphical representation of function calls. ✔ Launching profiler.

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VoltDB

MARCH 13, 2024

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability , aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. So when they don’t get one, they ask again — and again… and again… We thus have two compelling reasons for why high availability is so important: 1. What is high availability?

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that Dynatrace is among the first set of partners to offer support for AWS Distributor , a capability of AWS Systems Manager, that allows you to select from available popular third party agents to install and manage. What is AWS Systems Manager Distributor? In the navigation pane, select Distributor.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

By adding Flutter support, we’re giving you more freedom to choose what best fits your use case and available resources. When you set up user actions in your code, OneAgent automatically links associated web requests to those user actions. Let Dynatrace Davis AI alert you to detected anomalies in usage patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This lets you build your SLOs around the indicators that matter to you and your customers—critical metrics related to availability, failure rates, request response times, or select logs and business events. While the SLO management web UI and API are already available, the dashboard tile will be released within the next weeks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

On Titus , our multi-tenant compute platform, a "noisy neighbor" refers to a container or system service that heavily utilizes the server's resources, causing performance degradation in adjacent containers. There are kfuncs available to lock and unlock RCU read-side critical sections.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. The table below provides a detailed overview of the diverse requirements across these two categories.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In April of this year, we released a long-awaited GA version of the full-stack OneAgent for the IBM AIX operating system. AIX is considered to be one of the core operating systems used by our largest customers. Fully automatic deep code monitoring module injection. TL9 SP9 (see details below). Deployment of OneAgent on AIX 6.1

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InfoQ

JUNE 9, 2021

The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems. This can result in a complete system takeover, malware installation, data manipulation, and the creation of backdoors for persistent access.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Today, we discuss C# code quality and a variety of errors by the example of CMS DotNetNuke. We're going to dig into its source code. DotNetNuke is an open-source content management system (CMS) written mainly in C#. The source code is available on GitHub. You're going to need a cup of coffee. DotNetNuke.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Most of these leverage the unique capability of Dynatrace OneAgent® to extract business data from in-flight application payloads — without writing any code. To unlock business value, the data must be: Accessible from anywhere.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Find what you’re looking for faster with: Enhanced charting and data visualization: Easily filter, group, search, and visualize trace data to gain deeper insights into your system’s behavior. To pinpoint the exact requests that are failing, the e-commerce team filters by excluding successful HTTP 200 status codes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 12, 2020

Many web applications have been created in PHP, including popular content management systems like WordPress and e-commerce platforms like Magento. Dynatrace has long provided automatic code-level performance monitoring for PHP applications with OneAgent. (PHP Automatically locate bottlenecks in your code. to PHP 7.3.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2019

At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, xMatters introduced Flow Designer , a visual designer that enables users to resolve issues without writing a single line of code. To keep these tickets consistent and up-to-date, bi-directional integration with ticketing systems is paramount. How is this done? Slow microservices.

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Particular Software

MAY 8, 2023

When code breaks, our first move is carefully inspecting the call stack. However, in a message-based system, we no longer have a single call stack. The problem Because message-driven systems are asynchronous and run in multiple processes, debugging is naturally more complex than in a single-process application.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. Improving JavaScript Bundle Performance With Code-Splitting. It’s a common misconception that the code which is produced by the framework build tools (Webpack, for example) is fully optimized and cannot be improved upon any further. The answer lies in code-splitting.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

That’s why many organizations are turning to generative AI—which uses its training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries—and platform engineering to create new efficiencies and opportunities for innovation. No one will be around who fully understands the code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

AutomationEngine provides a low-code/no-code approach to model workflows for targeted notification and collaboration, closed-loop remediation, quality/security gating, and more. AutomationEngine workflow example for a bespoke ordering system. Build a custom task running JS code. Dynatrace ® Apps Are you ready to level up?

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Testsigma

JULY 6, 2021

Having a coded approach to test automation has its benefits. No code automation testing is an alternate approach that might be suitable for you and give you ROI sooner, providing few conditions are met. In this article, we will discuss the scenarios when you can use no code automation testing and when you should not use it.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 21, 2024

In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. This was caused by a config update by a security company for their widely used product that included a kernel driver on Windows systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

ZTA is a set of system design principles with a security model in mind. The Application and Workload pillar The goal of the Application and Workload pillar is to secure access and prevent unauthorized data collection or interference with mission critical systems. A DevSecOps framework. Software risk management. Continuous monitoring.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In early September I had a very enjoyable technical chat with Steve Klabnik of Rust fame and interviewer Kevin Ball of Software Engineering Daily, and the podcast is now available. Its long-standing presence and compatibility with legacy code make it a go-to language for maintaining and extending older projects.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Building effective and reliable systems is only possible with automation, which, in the past, proved difficult due to the following issues: Complexity of systems: The complexity of modern systems makes it difficult to gather all the necessary information to automate decision-making.

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