Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed. Dynatrace is proud to be an AWS launch partner in support of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Manage and optimize the deployment and configuration of F5 BIG-IP appliances or virtual instances across multiple data centers or cloud environments.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Many decide to move to a MySQL DBaaS to automate these time-consuming tasks so they can focus more on the development and optimization of their applications databases. Standalone deployments are a single node without any replication, and should really only be used for development or testing environments. Azure Virtual Networks.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Examples of such weaknesses are errors in application code, misconfigured network devices, and overly permissive access controls in a database. Network analysis looks for weaknesses within a network’s configurations and policies that would allow network access to unauthorized users. Identify vulnerabilities.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

To simulate those users’ journeys, multiple synthetic locations deployed within various sections of internal networks are required. A prominent solution is virtual machines, however, this is inadequate for customers who deploy their systems with Kubernetes. For large enterprises, this is not even a consideration. How does it work?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Top use cases include recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security. Dynatrace analyzes Amazon Neptune performance of resources (CPU, memory, network), requests and errors.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These developments open up new use cases, allowing Dynatrace customers to harness even more data for comprehensive AI-driven insights, faster troubleshooting, and improved operational efficiency. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. Exceeded throughput levels can be a sign that some changes to the network configuration might be required. Synthetic network monitoring. Events and alerts.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Kubernetes simplifies the operation and development of distributed applications by streamlining the deployment of containerized workloads and distributing them over a set of nodes. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . Dynatrace news. OneAgent and its Operator .

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Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

In support of these efforts, Dynatracers Sara Al-Hayale and Molly Rossman set out to establish a virtual internal women’s network to create connections and collectively identify ways to support and encourage female professional growth both at Dynatrace and the broader tech industry.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. So far, their prediction seems to be spot-on.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Citrix is critical infrastructure For businesses operating in industries with strict regulations, such as healthcare, banking, or government, Citrix virtual apps and virtual desktops are essential for simplified infrastructure management, secure application delivery, and compliance requirements.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Cloud services, mobile applications, and microservices-based application environments offer unparalleled flexibility for developers and users. Armed with an understanding of their monitoring maturity, organizations can develop a strategy for harnessing their data to automate more of their operations. Out-of-the-box AIOps.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Deeper visibility and more precise answers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The DevOps approach breaks up projects into modular components that development teams build in parallel by working closely with operations and business stakeholders. The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Missed insights.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. That’s why developers and SRE’s rely on telemetry data (i.e.,

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

ScaleGrid’s Redis hosting service allows these organizations to automate all of their time-consuming management tasks, such as backups, upgrades, scaling, replication, sharding, monitoring, alerts, log rotations, and OS patching, so their DBAs, developers, and DevOps teams can focus on new product development and optimizing performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions. Virtual Assembly Figure 3 describes how a virtual assembly of the encoded chunks replaces the physical assembly used in our previous architecture. MezzFS maintains a pool of upload buffers that correspond to a subset of these parts.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. During the development stage, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open-source code or make an error in application logic.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software automation enables digital supply chain stakeholders — such as digital operations, DevSecOps, ITOps, and CloudOps teams — to orchestrate resources across the software development lifecycle to bring innovative, high-quality products and services to market faster. What is software analytics? Applications and microservices monitoring.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. It manages the underlying infrastructure that hosts distributed container-based applications, which frees developers to focus on innovating and developing applications.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Container environments enable enterprises to quickly deploy and develop cloud-native applications that can run anywhere. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. Managed orchestration. CaaS vs. IaaS.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Understanding resource utilization for cost management.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. This enables email message processing in a quick and reliable way, even during periods of heavy network congestion. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. Who manages the networking aspects?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda serverless functions help developers innovate faster, scale easier, and reduce operational overhead, removing the burden of managing underlying infrastructure when updating and deploying code. Auto-detection starts monitoring new virtual machines as they are deployed. What is Lambda? How does Dynatrace help?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Modern software development environments require a new approach to application security (AppSec) to build and deliver software both quickly and securely. IAST only works with languages that have a virtual runtime environment, such as Java, C#, Python, and Node.js. In past years, most security testing took place post-development.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization. Weaving DevOps and the related disciplines of DevSecOps and AIOps tightly into the development process can also accelerate the process. SRE is no exception, with practitioners and development teams each having their favorites.

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