Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , First of all, integrating into agile development (shift-left / continuous performance testing) and integrating into performance information loop with production (shift-right) to form a holistic performance view. I decided to answer multiple comments here separately.

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Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. All it takes is putting two tags ( keptn_managed and keptn_service ) on the monitored Dynatrace service we want to enable a quality gate for. This is where the dashboard-based quality gate definition comes in.

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

To explore this issue, we asked participants the following question: Which of your teams have access to production monitoring data? Three quick conclusions: 1) More than 80% of the respondents claim that their Development teams have access to production monitoring data. Production monitoring data: The lifeblood of cross-talented teams.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. In agile development / DevOps environments it should be interwoven with the whole development process. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Performance-as-a-self-service .

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. Cloud-based testing comprises cloud-based test automation as well.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2020

In my last blog I covered how our Engineering Productivity (EP) and Infrastructure & Services (IAS) Teams are ensuring that our DevOps tool chain is running as expected, even while workloads have shifted as our global engineering teams are now working from home. Dynatrace news. Step #3 – Removing the offending plugin.

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High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! Super low key commitment, 10-15 mins per survey. Learn more and sign up.

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High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! Super low key commitment, 10-15 mins per survey. Learn more and sign up.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! Super low key commitment, 10-15 mins per survey. Learn more and sign up.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release, and where engineers should focus their time. What are SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets? Promote automation.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams aim to deliver software faster and with higher quality. But, manual steps — such as reviewing test results and addressing production issues resulting from performance, resiliency, security, or functional issues — often hinder these efforts. The role of observability within DevOps.

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Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Even with the increasing adoption of Agile and DevOps, many organizations still consider testers the gatekeepers of quality and are solely held responsible for the quality and approving releases. No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. Don’t Panic.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2019

“All configuration and pipeline” definition itself is designed to live in source control. While not intended to be a step-by-step tutorial around building a Concourse pipeline, below is an example pipeline that unit tests, builds, and deploys a sample Java application to Cloud Foundry.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

Effectively assessing and mitigating these external risks requires robust vendor due diligence and continuous monitoring of their cybersecurity posture. 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.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. SREs and DevOps teams can use these incidents to build back better and improve their systems and services. These tools should be utilized along with your monitoring strategy.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Hops and DevOps; an unlikely pairing, but one that turns out to go very well together! Dynatrace hosted another tasting event for our community, which included some craft beers from a local brewery and the very hot topic of DevOps – one that has been omnipotent in the IT industry almost since its inception in 2009. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As a result, API monitoring has become a must for DevOps teams. So what is API monitoring? An application programming interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software that enables your product to communicate with other products and services. What is API Monitoring?

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Test the business impact of your models using randomised controlled trials (follows from #2). Before you start building models, it’s worth spending time carefully constructing a definition of the problem you are trying to solve. Lesson 6: test the business impact of your models through randomised controlled trials.

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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps? Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps? In this episode, we’re talking about DevOps. Jeff’s book Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions. Attainable DevOps. So Jeff, what is DevOps? Drew McLellan. 2021-10-19T10:00:00+00:00.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Continuously deploying new releases at 100X or 1000X speed is a DevOps state of flow all organizations strive for. Variability and complexity.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Our customers are increasingly transitioning to agile software development, DevOps, and progressive continuous delivery to deliver business value faster. Note : We will soon improve the drill-downs to Davis problems directly from existing SLO definitions so that SRE teams can benefit more from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dynatrace integrates observability and security monitoring while leveraging causal AI to deliver answers and intelligent automation from data at an enormous scale. By following a programmatical approach, developers, DevOps and SREs benefit from a single source of truth and streamlined collaboration.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. There are several ways Dynatrace monitors and alerts on the impact of service disruption. Ready to learn more? Then read on! Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented.

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The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

You tell it where to get some source code from, give it a bunch of scripts to run in a shell environment (build, package, test, etc.), Build + Test ? Build + Test can be … well, I’ll get to that. for manual testing, approval, and/or to model manual steps in a deployment value stream map. It’s cheap, simple, does the job.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. If your application is compatible enough, it will definitely help in obtaining a good business. In this article, we will see how we do cross browser testing in 2 ways: manual browser testing and automated browser testing.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2020

As the complexity of application and cloud environments increases exponentially, ITOps and DevOps teams are increasingly turning to AI to automatically monitor, analyze and report on the data that is collected. AIOps definition and classification. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Software. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Cloud DevOps Software 161

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Chaos engineering provides mechanisms to test for failures, create awareness of this systems in terms of how complex and how distributed they are, and to be proactive. Additionally, chaos engineering can be used to verify your monitoring. Difference to vulnerability testing and other disciplines. Controlled Chaos.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Keptn uses SLO definitions to automatically configure Dynatrace or Prometheus alerting rules. After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ This is what this blog is all about.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2019

Keptn is taking care of: Automated Deployments and Automated Tests. Automated Operations by integrating with full stack monitoring such as Dynatrace. link) use case in the keptn doc where you will use that same file creating a stage pipeline (dev, stage, prod) with different deployment and testing strategies.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Monitoring The Main Thread If you’re like me, I immediately reach for DevTools and open the Lighthouse tab when I need to look into a site’s performance. We can get a better view if we run the same test in another service, like SpeedCurve , which digs deeper into the metric. Large preview ) There we go.

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