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

Dynatrace

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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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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

Dynatrace

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. These attacks can be orchestrated by hackers, cybercriminals, or even state actors.

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COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

Dynatrace

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. So how do you know what to prepare for?

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Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

Dynatrace

Configuration as Code supports all the mechanisms and best practices of Git-based workflows, including pull requests, commit merging, and reviewer approval. GitOps is a best-practice methodology for handling operation-relevant configurations that can be applied across the entire Dynatrace platform.

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Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Dynatrace

Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low. As a general best practice, Synthetic Tests are great to validate your core use cases are always working as expected. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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