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.

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Open Source Code Monitoring Azure 142

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits.

Java 214

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 214

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The post It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)! Dynatrace news. You name it, and we have it!

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DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

API Test is crucial for the software systems to function at high quality. They allow data exchange and communication from one to another software system. Every app you build nowadays completely relies on Application Programming Interfaces. What is API Test?

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Testing Programming Performance Database 214

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

To help determine how customers can comply with DORA requirements, DORA’s articles can be classified in the following three categories: Definition : Describes terms and the scope of the act. Technical : Specifies technical requirements for ICT systems within an organization.

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Best Practices Government DevOps Analytics 276

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Microservices are an alternative to monolithic systems. Large and centralized systems can present a host of challenges. Codebases grow as we write code to add new features.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

Here is the definition of this model: ?. This innovative model supports continuous delivery in a consistent and reliable way and stays true to the DevOps goal of code moving across the pipeline with more automation and less, or minimal, human intervention. . 1 Performance-as-a-self-service at Pay P al .

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

But these are definitely ruled out for enterprise applications due to the complexity in development, maintainability, need for object orientation, and interoperability. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters. In Byteland they have a very strange monetary system.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Managing Auto-Instrumentation in Pods The Operator automatically injects and configures auto-instrumentation for your applications, which enables you to collect telemetry data without modifying your source code. Instrumentation Instrumentation is the process of adding code to software to generate telemetry signalslogs, metrics, and traces.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

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Software Software Code Design 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They explore platform engineering’s multiple definitions, its pros and cons, and how practitioners can shape this emerging DevOps concept. The “cognitive load” refers to the additional requirements of building an application beyond the code itself. The software development lifecycle is a complex system with many moving parts.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. This file is automatically configured with working defaults, but it can be easily modified using a code editor such as VS Code. Flexible automation for Kubernetes observability.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Without any coding, these extensions make it easy to ingest data from these technologies and provide tailor-made analysis views and zero-config alerting. Without any coding skills required, you can declare extensions in a human-readable YAML format and activate them in your environment via the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The general agreed-upon definition of. We start with metrics, traces, and logs (that’s table stakes) but also provide context and enrichment through topology, behavior, code, metadata, and network, combined with data from application programming interfaces (API) and OpenTelemetry. Figure 2 The scope of Observability compared to APM.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

With all the technology changes through the past three years, with the world moving to K8s, the rise of GitOps, everything as code, event-driven automation, and many new open standards in the cloud-native space, it was time to update our workshop. This is where the dashboard-based quality gate definition comes in.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code.

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Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Further, it enables you to release with confidence by catching poor quality code before it reaches production. Kubernetes resource adoption —Act on external, holistic, and customer-centric behavior observations—rather than on only internal parameters—and automatically roll out Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to designated environments.

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DevOps Cloud Innovation Tuning 238

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since then, the video pipeline has undergone substantial improvements and broad expansions: Starting with Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) at Standard-Definitions , we expanded the encoding pipeline to 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR) which enabled support for our premium offering. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 240

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are two different approaches to GraphQL development; schema-first and code-first development. The code in your service only implements this schema. With code-first development , you don’t have a schema file. Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code.

Open Source 246

Open Source Java Architecture Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

GitOps: Cloud automation as code. The goal is to store and manage all configurations in a version control system such as Git. That’s what Cloud Automation does: SLIs, SLOs, Monitoring Definition, Automation Sequences, Tests, Deployment Definitions, etc. Expand to more use cases.

DevOps 246

DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 246

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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Cloud DevOps Code Open Source 184

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. While classic logging is an essential tool in debugging issues, it often lacks context and only provides snapshot information of one specific location in your code/application.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you need typically used failure-rate or response-time metrics to ensure your system’s availability and performance or if you need to rely on abnormal log drops to gain insights into raising problems—SLOs leveraged with Grail provide all the information you need.

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Metrics Availability Monitoring Scalability 225

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. The CSI pod offers a prepared file system, mounted automatically, and includes unzipped agent binaries to every application pod. These CSI pods provide a unique way of solving a handful of infrastructure problems. Agent logs security. Instant instrumentation.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

They are generally backward-looking, relying on data stored in accounting and other business systems for a historical perspective. But the company’s point-of-sale system limits daily reports to sales volume, with additional detail available only in monthly reports. OneAgent is a great starting point for using business events.

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Analytics Retail Storage Monitoring 237

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

Architecture 230

Architecture Latency Servers Systems 230

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

We had several goals in mind when trying to improve the baking methodology: Configuration as code Leverage Spinnaker for Continuous Delivery Eliminate Toil Configuration as Code The first part of our new Windows baking solution is Packer. We now have the software and instance configuration as code.

DevOps 211

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more. Dealing with an unstable website is stress that users don’t need, and definitely don’t want. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system.

Infrastructure 213

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the acceleration of complexity, scale, and dynamic systems architectures, under-resourced IT teams are under increasing pressure to understand when there is abnormal behavior, identify the precise reason why this occurred, quickly remediate the issue, and prevent this behavior in the future. How do you make a system ‘observable’?

IoT 165

IoT Infrastructure Monitoring Innovation 165

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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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Testsigma

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If you are working in an agile environment, you may have come across the term ‘code review’. It is a strategic operation where you break the source code into snippets in order to audit the code before it is moved to the testing phase. What Is Code Review? The Need For Code Review.

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Code Software Software Testing 81

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Import teams It is necessary to get ownership team information into the system and keep it updated. Dynatrace ownership functionality supports configuration-as-code via its proprietary Monaco (Monitoring as code) CLI or Terraform. Dynatrace offers several ways to ingest ownership team information. Contact us to schedule a demo.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices Azure Database Code 211

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Here are a few critical ways in which it differs from replication: You can control how frequently the destination system syncs from source – once a week, once a day, or even less frequently.

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Analytics Database Storage Systems 185

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). A schema is a fixed definition to organize data in certain fields.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 278

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Distributed tracing describes the act of following a transaction through all participating applications (tiers) and sub-systems, such as databases. Around the same time, Dynatrace released PurePath Version 1, which allowed for distributed tracing that provided not only cross-tier timings but also code-level details. W3C Trace Context.

Open Source 207

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 207