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What is Kubernetes security posture management? Driving business security with KSPM

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

It evaluates these resources against known best practices (for example: not running containers as root; using namespaces effectively) and compliance standards (such as CIS Benchmarks). It generates reports to assess cluster compliance posture for frameworks like DORA, CIS Benchmarks, or PCI-DSS.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Best Practices DevOps Cloud

DevOps automation: We’re only halfway there

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As a result, organizations are investing in DevOps automation to meet the need for faster, more reliable innovation. Automation is a crucial aspect of achieving DevOps excellence. But according to the 2023 DevOps Automation Pulse , only 56% of end-to-end DevOps processes are automated.

DevOps

DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation

Answer-driven release validation with Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

With the increasing adoption of agile software development, DevOps , progressive continuous delivery, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, many companies are aiming to deliver better software faster and more safely while keeping up with customer demands. What are quality gates? How the evaluation works. What’s next.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed

What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Spiraling cloud architecture and application costs have driven the need for new approaches to cloud spend. Nearly half (49%) of organizations believe their cloud bill is too high , according to a CloudZero survey. million on cloud computing , while large enterprises shell out upward of $12 million annually.

Cloud

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy

What is release validation? And why it must be automated

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Release validation is a critical DevOps practice to help ensure that code released into production is successful. DevOps practices have become key for organizations looking to scale, stay competitive, and keep up with customer demand. Dynatrace news. What is release validation? Automating release validation. Want to learn more?

DevOps

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring

PostgreSQL Benchmark: ScaleGrid vs. Amazon RDS

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Performance Benchmarking of PostgreSQL on ScaleGrid vs. AWS RDS Using Sysbench This article evaluates PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, focusing on versions 13, 14, and 15. This study benchmarks PostgreSQL performance across two leading managed database platforms—ScaleGrid and AWS RDS—using versions 13, 14, and 15.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics

IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms. But while moving workloads to the cloud brings overall carbon emissions down, the cloud computing carbon footprint itself is growing. Certainly, this is true for us.

Energy

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy

Perform Las Vegas 2020: Reduce risk and iterate faster

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

This breakout session will discuss the deployment models available for cloud implementations and how Dynatrace helps in iterating faster deployments. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. From big bang to progressive deployments. Customer feedback loops which include the product team earlier. Customer story.

Performance

Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps

What is application modernization? How to pick an application modernization strategy

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Application modernization centers on bringing monolithic, on-premises applications — which IT teams usually update and maintain with waterfall development processes — into cloud architecture and release patterns. These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment.

Strategy

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Cloud

Site reliability engineering: Six SRE trends to unleash DevOps innovation

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. SRE is becoming an essential discipline in organizations that use DevOps (the combination of development and operations) and agile methodologies. Dynatrace news.

DevOps

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking

What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software automation is the practice of creating software applications to reduce or eliminate human intervention in repetitive, time-consuming IT tasks and cloud operations. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks. Cloud automation.

Software

Software Software Analytics Big Data

Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Some SCA and SAST vendors have automated their products to align with the fast pace of modern DevOps teams, but many are still slow and cumbersome. Why is container security tricky? Remove privileges.

Open Source

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Key themes and best practices for protecting against cyberthreats

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

DevSecOps automation DevSecOps automation is a fundamental practice that combines security with the speed and agility of DevOps. It also helps organizations keep pace with the rapid cadence of software releases and the intricacies of multi-cloud environments.

Best Practices

Best Practices Speed Benchmarking Infrastructure

How BizDevOps can “shift left” using SLOs to automate quality gates

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Enforcing benchmarks in real time.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software

How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a brief primer on APM and how it has changed for cloud-native environments, and some tips on what to look for in modern APM solutions. In recent years, APM has expanded to encompass cloud-native environments and distributed applications composed of microservices. But what differentiates one APM offering from another?

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud

2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report , we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives.

Database

Database Cloud Open Source Systems

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. In fact, a recent survey found that many cloud applications are vulnerable to outages , despite growing confidence in cloud platforms and services.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things all applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Development

What’s the Best PostgreSQL High Availability Framework? PAF vs. repmgr vs. Patroni Infographic

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you need help setting up high availability for your PostgreSQL clusters, check out our fully Managed PostgreSQL on AWS , PostgreSQL on Azure , and PostgreSQL Enterprise solutions to automate your database management in the cloud an on-premise.

Availability

Availability Azure AWS DevOps

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Eli Bendersky : Just for fun, I rewrote the same benchmark in Go; two goroutines ping-ponging short message between themselves over a channel.

Internet

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things many other applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Development

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things many other applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Development

How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X Over Amazon RDS at The Same Cost

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. ScaleGrid offers a compelling alternative to hosting MySQL on AWS that offers better performance, more control, and no cloud vendor lock-in and the same price as Amazon RDS.

AWS

AWS Latency Performance Open Source

The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. ” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements.

Availability

Availability Database Open Source Hardware

Best Practice for Creating Indexes on your MySQL Tables

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

Best Practices

Best Practices Performance Processing Systems

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Migration to cloud. Cloud Platform.

Architecture

Architecture Cache Azure Storage

Technology Performance Pulse

What is Kubernetes security posture management? Driving business security with KSPM

DevOps automation: We’re only halfway there

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Answer-driven release validation with Dynatrace SaaS Cloud Automation

What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

What is release validation? And why it must be automated

PostgreSQL Benchmark: ScaleGrid vs. Amazon RDS

IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Perform Las Vegas 2020: Reduce risk and iterate faster

What is application modernization? How to pick an application modernization strategy

Site reliability engineering: Six SRE trends to unleash DevOps innovation

What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation

Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: Key themes and best practices for protecting against cyberthreats

How BizDevOps can “shift left” using SLOs to automate quality gates

How to evaluate modern APM solutions

2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

What’s the Best PostgreSQL High Availability Framework? PAF vs. repmgr vs. Patroni Infographic

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

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Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

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How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X Over Amazon RDS at The Same Cost

The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Best Practice for Creating Indexes on your MySQL Tables

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

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