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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

For example, real-user monitoring metrics might reveal a user performance issue that you can then apply to synthetic testing to replicate the issue by exercising the same transaction across several different variables. The post Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Dynatrace

This blog provides explains the SEC disclosure and what it means for application security, best practices, and how your organization can prepare for the new requirements. What application security best practices should your cybersecurity risk management process consider? Download now!

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

When it comes to DevOps best practices, practitioners need ways to automate processes and make their day-to-day tasks more efficient. Support all the mechanisms and best practices of git-based workflows such as pull requests, merging, and approvals. It has now become a parallel exercise in the same CLI.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Fitness app : The fitness app should offer a response time of less than 500 milliseconds for exercise tracking and data recording. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience. Note : you might hear the term latency used instead of response time.

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Carving an AWS certification path

Dynatrace

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. It also ensures your team shares common fluency in cloud best practices, which improves collaboration and helps your company achieve a higher standard of performance.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

To pass information such as Test Step Name (TSN), Load Test Name (LTN), Load Script Name (LSN), Virtual User Id (VU) and others we can follow the load testing integration best practice as documented in Dynatrace and load testing tools integration. The following shows the screenshot of a rule for TSN. test name, test step.