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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

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software

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

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

Code Software Engineering Programming Architecture

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

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

Code Software Engineering Engineering Software

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

Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Searching for the right people can take time, especially in large and complex software environments. Despite increasing automation, software development and incident management are human-centered activities. Any software engineer can search for monitored entities that relate to specific deployments and their respective teams.

Software

Software Software Monitoring Software 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

SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. DevOps is best thought of as a practical approach to speeding up new software development and delivery.

DevOps

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google

How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. How do you ace your DevOps interview?

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

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

What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Platform engineering is a practice that outlines how development teams build internal platforms to create self-service capabilities for software engineering teams. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Software Engineering Scalability

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

Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

This approach delivers substantial benefits: consistent execution, lower costs, better security, and systems that can be maintained like traditional software. 90% accuracy for software will often be a deal-breaker, but the promise of agents rests on the ability to chain them together: even five in a row will fail over 40% of the time!

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems

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. 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread .

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

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

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. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Design Engineering Software

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

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

A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

MARCH 26, 2019

Software developers are interchangeable. A software developer with a computer science degree will produce the same quality of work as any other software developer with a computer science degree. Productivity of software teams, over the short and long-term, can vary by many orders of magnitude. What do I measure?

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software

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. That implicit context is a critical part of software development and also has to be made available to AI.

Programming

Programming Code Software 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

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure

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. DevOps orchestration in practice. Automation versus orchestration.

DevOps

DevOps Virtualization Best Practices Innovation

Best PostgreSQL GUI [2024]

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control. An intelligent query editor with code refactoring, autocomplete, error detection, optimization, and analysis tools sensitive to context and aware of schema. Built-in version control (Git integration).

Open Source

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Zero day refers to security vulnerabilities that are discovered in software when teams had “zero days” to work on an update or a patch to remediate the issue and, hence, are already at risk. 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

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

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

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

Platform engineering creates and manages a shared infrastructure and set of tools, such as internal developer platforms (IDPs) , to enable software developers to build, deploy, and operate applications more efficiently. They shouldn’t worry about the platform; they should just start writing code.”

Engineering

Engineering Development DevOps Infrastructure

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. SRE bridges the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Government Latency

Improve the Quality of Your Software in 6 Steps

DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

Do your customers keep complaining about bugs in your software application? If you answered yes , then you probably have issues with the quality of your software application. No matter what happened in the past, you are now responsible for not introducing any new quality issues with the source code that you write.

Software

Software Software Code Software Engineering

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

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. SLOs are a great way to define what software should do.

Open Source

Open Source DevOps Cloud 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. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

DevOps

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy

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. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Government Latency

Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle. Configuration as code is easy to use, update, and understand. Standards are set by the platform engineers and ensured throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle.

Engineering

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud

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

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

How to Use Software Productivity Metrics The Right Way

DZone

AUGUST 21, 2019

Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic.

Metrics

Metrics Software Software Software Engineering

Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Best Practices

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics

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. Based on the W3C open standard Trace Context , OpenTelemetry standardizes telemetry data from multiple sources, so organizations have the capacity to deeply analyze software behavior and performance.

Open Source

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics

Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

SRE Best Practices for Java Applications

Trending Sources

Writing Clean Code: Naming

5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Improving Code Readability

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

Podcast interview: Rust and C++

LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

SRE vs DevOps: What you need to know

How to Prepare for Your DevOps Interview

Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

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

What is platform engineering?

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

Beyond “Prompt and Pray”

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

Auto-adaptive thresholds for AI-driven quality gating

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Automated observability, security, and reliability at scale

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

A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Preparing for AI

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

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

Best PostgreSQL GUI [2024]

Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

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

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

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Improve the Quality of Your Software in 6 Steps

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

Scale DevOps and SRE with open source Keptn

DevOps observability: A guide for DevOps and DevSecOps teams

Site reliability engineering: 5 things to you need to know

Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

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

DevOps automation: We’re only halfway there

How to Use Software Productivity Metrics The Right Way

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OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

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