Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. or 99.99% of the time.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

The IT world is rife with jargon — and “as code” is no exception. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. ” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored and processed, it’s essential to ensure that systems are secure and protected against potential threats. The deep insights into application code provided by OneAgent® help track potentially vulnerable data flow within an application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Modern infrastructure needs to be elastic and GitOps approaches are used to automate the provisioning of infrastructure and applications using Git, an open-source control system that provides the change processes including reviews and approvals. Key components of GitOps are declarative infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

And by “sample” we mean “an example”, like food samples in your local grocery store. One of the main reasons this feature exists is just like with food samples, to give you “a taste” of the production quality ETL code that you could encounter inside the Netflix data ecosystem. This is one way to build trust with our internal user base.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. Data is then dynamically routed into pipelines for further processing.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Verification and validation are two distinct processes often used in various fields, including software development, engineering, and manufacturing. Verification Verification is the process of checking whether the software meets its specifications.

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2024

This level of protection is essential as it lays the foundation for the following testing processes: integration tests, acceptance testing, and finally manual testing, including exploratory testing. We'll also touch upon automation testing , which plays an important role in ensuring code reliability and quality.

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. For example, to broadcast a lookup table named lookup_table : Broadcast variables can be used to efficiently distribute large read-only data structures, such as lookup tables, to worker nodes.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. asc | fields `Host`, `Recently Restarted?

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

This architectural style enables teams to develop and deploy services independently, offering flexibility and scalability to the software development process. Let's take the example of an online marketplace application.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Carefully planning and integrating new processes and tools is critical to ensuring compliance without disrupting daily operations. Visibility of all business processes starting from the back end and ending with customer experience is perhaps the biggest challenge. For example, user behavior helps identify attacks or fraud.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

CI/CD is a series of interconnected processes that empower developers to build quality software through well-aligned and automated development, testing, delivery, and deployment. As Deloitte reports, continuous integration (CI) streamlines the process of internal software development. Continuous integration streamlines development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

By Jun He , Natallia Dzenisenka , Praneeth Yenugutala , Yingyi Zhang , and Anjali Norwood TL;DR We are thrilled to announce that the Maestro source code is now open to the public! An example can be found in the Maestro repository wiki. In the above example, run5 fails at 5AM, then later runs are queued but do not run.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Indeed, according to one survey, DevOps practices have led to 60% of developers releasing code twice as quickly. But increased speed creates a tradeoff: According to another study, nearly half of organizations consciously deploy vulnerable code because of time pressure. Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC).

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

OpenPipeline allows you to create custom endpoints for data ingestion and process the events in the pipeline (for example, adding custom pipe-dependent fields to simplify data analysis in a later phase). Give your pipeline a name, for example, Automated discovery from Security Investigator.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

This process, known as auto-adaptive thresholding, eliminates the need to define a static threshold upfront. To provide automated feedback for developers, the concept of quality gates for static code analysis in continuous integration is widely adopted throughout the industry.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. Often referred to as calculated metrics (see Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics ), such metric processing takes one or more existing metrics as input to create a new user-defined metric.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This process begins when the developer merges a code change and ends when it is running in a production environment.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Source code tests. Image scanners.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Organizations can customize quality gate criteria to validate technical service-level objectives (SLOs) and business goals, ensuring early detection and resolution of code deficiencies. Ultimately, quality gates safeguard code viability as it advances through the delivery pipeline. But how do they function in practice?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. Local development tools including specialized test runners, code generators, and a command line interface. Productivity?—?Local

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

This is one example of the many use cases we’re exploring. For example, it can help DevOps and platform engineering teams write code snippets by drawing on information from software libraries. It highlights the potential of GPT technology to drive “information democracy” even further.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

The risk of impact from an existing known vulnerability also depends on whether certain processes are using the vulnerable parts of a software component. This information specifies which function in the source code relates to a vulnerability. Process group 1 doesn’t use the function that contains the vulnerability.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

To ensure consistent progress in app development, it’s crucial to stay updated and integrate these innovations into your development process. With this additional context—for example, location in code, initial and transition states, interaction types, and more—Dynatrace makes sense of the user journey and the technical components in use.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. The following example drives the point home. Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Putting it all together.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For example, each deliverable in the project, like the requirements, design, code, documents, user interface, etc., Moreover, we may test the code based on the user and functional requirements or specifications, i.e., black-box testing. We may also need to test the structure of the code, i.e., white box testing.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. And while these examples were resolved by just asking a few questions, in many cases, the answers are more elusive, requiring real-time and historical drill-downs into the processes and dependencies specific to each host.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Typically, the attackers attempt to exploit some weakness in the vendor’s development or delivery life cycle and attempt to inject malicious code before an application is signed and certified. It all starts with the code. Dynatrace has established a secure SDL, which automatically enforces that all developed code is reviewed by a peer.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These include spending too much time on manual processes, finger-pointing due to siloed teams, and poor customer experience because of unplanned work. Example #1 – Deploy application code to Kubernetes. The example below demonstrates: Dynatrace automatically added tags created from Kubernetes labels.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. For example, the CAP_SYS_BOOT capability controls the ability of a given user to reboot the machine. Let’s go back to that kernel code example earlier.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

Although you can code the logic that governs communication directly into the microservices, a service mesh abstracts that logic into a parallel layer of infrastructure using a proxy called a sidecar, which runs alongside each service. Management processes make up the control plane, which coordinates the proxies’ behavior.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

The automated extraction of ownership information, for example, from Kubernetes annotations, is therefore essential. Secondly, knowing who is responsible is essential but not sufficient, especially if you want to automate your triage process. An example via Monaco can be found in this public GitHub repository.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Additionally, it discov ers all processes running on the h ost and automatically activates instrumentation throughout the application stack. .

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

By leveraging Dynatrace observability on Red Hat OpenShift running on Linux, you can accelerate modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes. Get started monitoring Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE New to Dynatrace?

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