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Best Practices for Designing Resilient APIs for Scalability and Reliability

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the last 15+ years, Ive worked on designing APIs that are not only functional but also resilient able to adapt to unexpected failures and maintain performance under pressure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems. However, it often introduces new challenges in the process.

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Best Practices for Scaling RabbitMQ

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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The top four log analytics and log management best practices

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By following key log analytics and log management best practices, teams can get more business value from their data. Thus, organizations face the critical problem of designing and implementing effective solutions to manage this growing data deluge and its associated implications.

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Dynatrace joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This rising risk amplifies the need for reliable security solutions that integrate with existing systems. As a MISA member, we look forward to collaborating with Microsoft and other members to develop best practices, share insights, and drive innovation in cloud-native security.

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MuleSoft: Best Practices for API Management

DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture, enabling seamless integration and communication among disparate systems. Effective API management is critical to ensuring that these interfaces are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

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Driving your FinOps strategy with observability best practices

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Dynatrace can help you achieve your FinOps strategy using observability best practices. ” The post Driving your FinOps strategy with observability best practices appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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5 SRE best practices you can implement today

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Without SRE best practices, the observability landscape is too complex for any single organization to manage. Like any evolving discipline, it is characterized by a lack of commonly accepted practices and tools. In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization.

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS monitoring best practices.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. Infrastructure as code is a practice that automates IT infrastructure provisioning and management by codifying it as software. Exploring IAC best practices. Consistency.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Essential cybersecurity best practices to safeguard your organization

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Because cyberattacks are increasing as application delivery gets more complex, it is crucial to put in place some cybersecurity best practices to protect your organization’s data and privacy. You can achieve this through a few best practices and tools. Downfalls of not adopting cybersecurity best practices.

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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They discussed best practices, emerging trends, effective mindsets for establishing service-level objectives (SLOs) , and more. Generative AI is a promising new asset that SRE teams can uniquely apply to their practices to achieve greater efficiency, but it is not a complete replacement for certain preexisting reliability measures.

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Best Practices for Batch Processing in IBM App Connect Enterprise as a Service

DZone

JUNE 5, 2024

Sometimes referred to as data copy , batch processing allows you to author and run flows that retrieve batches of records from a source, manipulate the records, and then load them into a target system. This post provides recommendations for designing flows that use batch processing.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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API Design Principles for Optimal Performance and Scalability

DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

The post will provide a comprehensive guide to understanding the key principles and best practices for optimizing the performance of APIs. It involves a combination of techniques and best practices aimed at reducing latency, improving user experience, and increasing the overall efficiency of the system.

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Dare to debug production with Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Source code isolation : Live Debugger integrates with source control management systems to display the correct source code revision and provide a seamless debugging experience. Designed from the ground up, this process aims to protect source code security and follow vendor best practices provided by relevant vendors.

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Introducing Configurable Metaflow

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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Test Tool Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples and Best Practices

DZone

APRIL 21, 2023

Test tools are software or hardware designed to test a system or application. Some test tools are intended for developers during the development process, while others are designed for quality assurance teams or end users.

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Free Google Book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

High Scalability

APRIL 9, 2020

Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. Copy/pasting a few paragraphs: "In this book we talk generally about systems, which is a conceptual way of thinking about the groups of components that cooperate to perform some function. It's free to download, so don't be shy.

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System Testing Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples and Best Practices

DZone

MAY 3, 2023

System testing, also known as system-level testing, involves evaluating how the various components of an application interact in a fully integrated system. It is carried out on the entire system under either functional or design requirements.

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Power Dashboarding, Part I: Start your exploration journey with Dashboards

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It also provides insights into system performance and allows for proactive management. Monitoring CPU usage helps ensure optimal performance, enabling you to manage your resources and ensure smooth system operations proactively. We’re now adding Inodes Total as a pie chart to our dashboard.

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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The system is inconsistent, slow, hallucinatingand that amazing demo starts collecting digital dust. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data. This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle.

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Best Practices in Cloud Security Monitoring

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

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What is DevSecOps?

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Each has its own role to play in successfully implementing this tactical trifecta at scale.

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What is continuous delivery and what are best practices for implementing it?

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is the time it takes for a system to roll back updates. Best practices for adopting continuous delivery. Building a fast and reliable release process requires implementing quality checks, logging practices, and monitoring solutions. Mean time to recovery. Watch our webinar. Watch webinar now!

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Linux System Mining with Python ( Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community).

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What is DORA? The application security and reliability implications of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

DORA seeks to strengthen the cybersecurity resilience of the EU’s banking and financial institutions by requiring them to possess the requisite processes, systems, and controls to prevent, manage, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. This helps assess the ability of systems and processes to withstand disruptions and recover quickly.

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Service Mesh and Management Practices in Microservices

DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience.

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Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows. Centralized Best Practices Data infrastructure evolves continually.

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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, such as the Log4Shell incident in 2021, allow attackers to run malicious code on a remote system without requiring authentication or user interaction.

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Analyze energy consumption and carbon emissions in hybrid cloud infrastructure

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Carbon Impact leverages business events , a special data type designed to support the real-time accuracy and long-term granularity demands common to business use cases. These metrics are automatically enriched with Smartscape® topology context, connecting them to their source systems to enable flexible and granular analysis.

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Simplify complex cloud-native environments with AI-driven observability

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Monitor your cloud OpenPipeline ™ is the Dynatrace platform data-handling solution designed to seamlessly ingest and process data from any source, regardless of scale or format. Furthermore, OpenPipeline is designed to collect and process data securely and in compliance with industry standards.

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Black Box Testing Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples and Best Practices

DZone

MAY 2, 2023

Black box testing is a software testing methodology that focuses on the functional requirements of a system without considering its internal workings or implementation details. Therefore, the tester need not have any knowledge of the internal structure or design of the system.

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Using Dynatrace to master the 5 pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (Part 1)

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. Dynatrace and AWS.

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How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs.

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Reliability Testing Tutorial: Comprehensive Guide With Best Practices

DZone

JUNE 26, 2023

Reliability testing is a part of the software development process that helps ensure that a software application or system performs seamlessly in each environmental condition as expected over time. It incorporates the test results from functional and non-functional testing to determine issues in software design.

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Further improved handling and reliability of OneAgent deployments

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Note that most of the changes we’ve introduced so far and those that are detailed below are all designed to be invisible to you, taking place entirely automatically in the background. However these improvements are of critical importance for those who have been exposed to the problems that these improvements are designed to solve.

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Software Quality Tutorial: Comprehensive Guide With Best Practices

DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

Basically, it measures how well a piece of software performs the functions for which it was designed, as well as how well it complies with its requirements. It covers failed software projects, inadequate software quality in legacy systems, and operational software failures.

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What the NIS2 Directive means for application security

Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2024

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. NIS2 is an evolution of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Security Directive, which has been in effect since 2016.

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Because a third party manages part of the infrastructure, IT teams give up a measure of control over system architecture. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions. Functional FaaS best practices. These include the following: Reduced control. Increased testing complexity.

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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Unlock the Power of DevSecOps with Newly Released Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By leveraging the power of the Dynatrace ® platform and the new Kubernetes experience, platform engineers are empowered to implement the following best practices, thereby enabling their dev teams to deliver best-in-class applications and services to their customers.

Engineering

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RSA guide 2024: AI and security are top concerns for organizations in every industry

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As organizations train generative AI systems with critical data, they must be aware of the security and compliance risks. Best practices for building a strong DevSecOps maturity model – blog How can businesses effectively implement best practices to align with the evolving DevSecOps maturity model?

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