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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go. Posted with permission.

Software Engineering

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Writing Clean Code: Naming

DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When you start learning how to code your main focus is writing code that works correctly for the problem you are solving. Yes, code needs to work correctly and that is a good place to start learning. However, in a real work environment, you also want to ensure you write clean code.

Code

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SRE Best Practices for Java Applications

DZone

MARCH 12, 2025

Site reliability engineering (SRE) plays a vital role in ensuring Java applications' high availability, performance, and scalability. This discipline merges software engineering and operations, aiming to create a robust infrastructure that supports seamless user experiences.

Best Practices

Best Practices Java Software Engineering Scalability

Improving Code Readability

DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Readable code is usable code. The world’s greatest chefs never put anything on the plate that will never be eaten, this rule corresponds to the YAGNI principle in Software Engineering. Such non-used code blocks may affect code readability in the future.

Code

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5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

On the other hand, deploying new code on the backend is complex and offers no such transparency. With Dynatrace Live Debugger, you can set a non-breaking breakpoint and instantly see if new code is following the intended new paths, if any new arguments are being considered, and if input and output arguments are aligned with expectations.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Code Open Source Engineering

Podcast interview: Rust and C++

Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In early September I had a very enjoyable technical chat with Steve Klabnik of Rust fame and interviewer Kevin Ball of Software Engineering Daily, and the podcast is now available. Its long-standing presence and compatibility with legacy code make it a go-to language for maintaining and extending older projects.

C++

C++ Software Engineering Programming Games

LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

DZone

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI.

Development

Development Software Engineering Engineering Software

Going from an Individual Contributor to an Engineering Manager is NOT a promotion

DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

What you do as an engineering manager versus what you do as a developer is fundamentally different. There is a possibility that you might not write code altogether. Becoming an engineering manager means transitioning to a different role with different responsibilities. This is a more traditional track that we see.

Engineering

Engineering Software Engineering Software Software

Scaling Is Not Just About Products – It’s About Teams, Too

DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

We can say that system scalability is about supporting a linear rate of growth in system resource requirements given that code running inside the system is unchanged. Software engineering team scalability is equally important. Software Engineering Team Scalability.

Scalability

Scalability Software Engineering Engineering Systems

SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SRE is the transformation of traditional operations practices by using software engineering and DevOps principles to improve the availability, performance, and scalability of releases by building resiliency into apps and infrastructure. Adopt an “everything as code” philosophy using APIs and version-controlled artifacts.

DevOps

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How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

DevOps Engineers must be both good software developers and infrastructure experts and, as such, they are expected to know Linux infrastructure, networking, algorithms, and DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

DevOps

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Engineering

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study Amershi et al., More specifically, we’ll be looking at the results of an internal study with over 500 participants designed to figure out how product development and software engineering is changing at Microsoft with the rise of AI and ML. ICSE’19.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software

The Force of interfaces and meaningful class names: Don’t Be a Sith

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2024

It’s as restrictive as the Sith philosophy, limiting the potential of your code because it implicitly suggests there should only be one implementation of that interface. This method not only keeps your mind open to additional implementations but also provides more insight into the technical details of the code. This is a trap!

Java

Java Software Engineering Engineering Code

Auto-adaptive thresholds for AI-driven quality gating

Dynatrace

JUNE 4, 2024

Build an umbrella for Development and Operations In modern software engineering, the discipline of platform engineering delivers DevSecOps practices to developers to bridge the gaps between development, security, and operations and enhance the developer experience.

Metrics

Metrics Engineering Code Tuning

What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The practice of platform engineering has evolved alongside the increasing complexity of cloud environments. Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Industry apps explosion.

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. With Configuration as Code, developers can manage their observability and security tasks with config files that can be developed alongside source code conveniently and at scale.

Best Practices

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency

A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Equally, code that accurately describes the domain it is modelling is often far easier to understand and change.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026. Monitoring-as-code can also be configured in GitOps fashion.

Engineering

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Preparing for AI

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. AI writes buggy code? So do humansand AI seems to be getting better at writing correct code.

Programming

Programming Code Software Software

What is DevOps orchestration? And why invest in orchestration tools?

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By helping teams release new software more frequently, DevOps practices are an essential component of digital transformation. Yet, ensuring code quality and breaking down silos are some of the many challenges that come with DevOps methodologies. Automation versus orchestration. Get started with DevOps orchestration.

DevOps

DevOps Virtualization Best Practices Innovation

Best PostgreSQL GUI [2024]

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

An intelligent query editor with code refactoring, autocomplete, error detection, optimization, and analysis tools sensitive to context and aware of schema. Pros: Powerful query editor with intelligent code completion. Features: An intuitive and fast interface with a visual query builder having code snippets and auto-completion.

Open Source

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System

Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. But developers need code-level visibility and code-level data.” That’s not how I envision code-level observability,” Laifenfeld said. KubeCon North America is this week.

Development

Development DevOps Programming Cloud

Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

These workflows are then implemented as traditional software, which can be tested, versioned, and maintained. This approach is well understood in software engineering and contrasts sharply with building agents that rely on runtime decisionsan inherently less reliable and harder-to-maintain model.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

Java

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

As a result, teams can focus on writing code and building features rather than dealing with infrastructure nuances. They shouldn’t worry about the platform; they should just start writing code.” “You can launch a code space that starts a container that shows you everything about how an app was built and deployed.”

Engineering

Engineering Development DevOps Infrastructure

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

Open Source

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java

What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news.

Open Source

Open Source Cloud Games Java

Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Create and associate ownership teams with monitored entities Dynatrace captures ownership team information centrally in its platform while allowing various means of ingesting the information, such as Ownership as Code or dedicated API calls. team structure, or links to external resources such as a wiki.

Software

Software Software Monitoring Software Engineering

SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Though I have spent the last ~17 years (In 2021) of my life coding and perfecting my Java and J2EE skill — I suddenly feel. Ahem, Slow!

Java

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming

Scale DevOps and SRE with open source Keptn

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly. Ultimately, Keptn reduces code automation by 90% and makes every component SLO-driven.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Cloud Metrics

Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

What is site reliability engineering? Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Dynatrace news.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Government Latency

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Lambda is Amazon’s event-driven, functions-as-a-service (FaaS) compute service that runs code when triggered for application and back-end services. To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code.

Best Practices

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless

How To Use BenchmarkDotNet: 6 Simple Performance-Boosting Tips To Get Started

DZone

MARCH 13, 2024

As software engineers, we are always striving for high performance and efficiency in our code. One powerful way that can help us accurately measure the performance of our code is a process called benchmarking, and we’ll look at how to use BenchmarkDotNet with our C# code.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Tuning Performance Open Source

Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

By Karen Casella, Director of Engineering, Access & Identity Management Have you ever experienced one of the following scenarios while looking for your next role? You study and practice coding interview problems for hours/days/weeks/months, only to be asked to merge two sorted lists. This is a conversation, not an inquisition!

Engineering

Engineering Games Entertainment Innovation

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. Data scientists want to retain their freedom to use arbitrary, idiomatic Python code to express their business logic?—?like

Open Source

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy

Site reliability engineering: 5 things to you need to know

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. Shift-left using an SRE approach means that reliability is baked into each process, app and code change.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Government Latency

OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. OpenTelemetry works by providing developers with APIs, SDKs, and tools to instrument their code and collect telemetry data such as logs, metrics, and traces. What is OpenTelemetry?

Open Source

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics

DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. What is DevOps?

DevOps

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy

Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Observability-driven development Yarden Laifenfeld, senior software engineer at Dynatrace, presented the first use case for the software development lifecycle (SDLC): observability-driven development, which is the process of integrating observability and security before the first line of code is even written.

Engineering

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud

Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

Uber Engineering

JUNE 15, 2021

It warns software engineers of bugs in newly-implemented code and regressions in existing code, before it is merged. This ensures increased software reliability. It also … The post Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Introduction to Flaky Tests.

Java

Java Testing Software Engineering Engineering

DevOps automation: We’re only halfway there

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. Moreover, it takes an average of nine hours for a software engineer to remediate a problem within a production application.

DevOps

DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation

MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

DevOps

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source

Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

Writing Clean Code: Naming

Trending Sources

SRE Best Practices for Java Applications

Improving Code Readability

5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Podcast interview: Rust and C++

LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Going from an Individual Contributor to an Engineering Manager is NOT a promotion

Scaling Is Not Just About Products – It’s About Teams, Too

SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

The Force of interfaces and meaningful class names: Don’t Be a Sith

Auto-adaptive thresholds for AI-driven quality gating

What is platform engineering?

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

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

Preparing for AI

What is DevOps orchestration? And why invest in orchestration tools?

Best PostgreSQL GUI [2024]

Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

OTel contributor Q&A: Dynatrace works to ensure enterprise readiness for OpenTelemetry

What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Connect your software with the right people: Ownership drives effective collaboration

SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

Scale DevOps and SRE with open source Keptn

Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

How To Use BenchmarkDotNet: 6 Simple Performance-Boosting Tips To Get Started

Demystifying Interviewing for Backend Engineers @ Netflix

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

Site reliability engineering: 5 things to you need to know

OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java

DevOps automation: We’re only halfway there

MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

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