Development, Processing and Software Performance

Why business resiliency depends on unified observability and security

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

trillion this year 1 , more than two-thirds of the adult population now relying on digital payments 2 for financial transactions, and more than 400 million terabytes of data being created each day 3 , it’s abundantly clear that the world now runs on software. With global e-commerce spending projected to reach $6.3

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring Software Performance

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). The following are specific examples that demonstrate quality gates in action: Security gates Security gates ensure code meets key security requirements defined by development and security stakeholders.

Speed

Speed Software Software Latency

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering

Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This demand creates an increasing need for DevOps teams to maintain the performance and reliability of critical business applications. SLOs created by upper management without buy-in from relevant development, operations, and SRE stakeholders can lead to finger-pointing, blaming, and chaotic war rooms when violations occur.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. Monitoring begins here. Converts and exports the data.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. The insights you can gain by testing the limits of your applications deliver a lot of benefits for your development teams and your overall business.

Engineering

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure

Mathematical Guarantee

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A mathematical guarantee is a formal, provable assurance about the behavior, performance, or properties of a system, algorithm, or process, derived from rigorous mathematical analysis or proof. Correctness guarantees assure that an algorithm produces the right output for all valid inputs, forming the foundation of reliable software.

Systems

Systems Efficiency Processing Scalability

8 Functional Testing Types Explained With Detail

Enprowess

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This blog will explain each functional testing type and when it should be performed during the software development life cycle. In the software testing phase, functional testing is a process that brings considerable benefits to the software development process. Component Testing. Smoke Testing.

Testing

Testing Software Software Systems

Reinventing Performance Testing: Agile

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Agile development eliminates the main problem of tradition development: you need to have a working system before you may test it, so performance testing happened at the last moment. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Engineering

Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. or above for the checkout process.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization

Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. With observability, teams can understand what part of a system is performing poorly and how to correct the problem. What is observability?

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps

Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. Vector is open source and in use by multiple companies.

Performance

Performance Latency Open Source Metrics

Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

Memory and performance management are important aspects of software development and ones that every software developer should pay attention to. When the JavaScript engine runs a garbage-collection process, the man object will be removed from memory and from the WeakMap that we assigned it to. Frank Joseph.

Cache

Cache Programming Storage Code

Java Or Scala Performance – Which One Is Better?

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. This means that the primary aim of this programming language is to both gather data and manipulate it as it is processed. Integrated Development Environment Support.

Java

Java Performance Programming Virtualization

Accelerate Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

However, many developers find them difficult to build and deploy. As there are few individuals with this expertise, an easier process presents a significant opportunity for companies who want to accelerate their ML usage. After the dataset is created, you must scale the processing to handle the data, which can often be a blocker.

Tuning

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure

Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. Several reteaming models have been developed to support teams' fluidity.

Engineering

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare

Apica as an Alternative to Micro Focus SiteScope

Apica

APRIL 27, 2020

Change is never easy, but a necessity as legacy software can’t keep up with the current needs or demand. Case in point is what we are seeing with solutions like HP/Micro Focus SiteScope, though a great product for years, it has had issues along with very limited new development as the solution exchanged hands from HP to Micro Focus.

Monitoring

Monitoring Scalability DevOps Network

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Development

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Development

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Open source software has become a key standard for developing modern applications. From common coding libraries to orchestrating container-based computing, organizations now rely on open source software—and the open standards that define them—for essential functions throughout their software stack.

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Development

Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution amplifies OpenTelemetry integration for scalable, production-ready observability

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Organizations use it to collect and send data to a backend, such as Dynatrace, that can analyze software performance and behavior. Now, developers can build software libraries and use OpenTelemetry to add tracing and telemetry directly into them so an observability analytics backend, such as Dynatrace, can consume the data immediately.

Scalability

Scalability Open Source Analytics Innovation

Technology Performance Pulse

Why business resiliency depends on unified observability and security

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Common SLO pitfalls and how to avoid them

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

What is chaos engineering?

Mathematical Guarantee

8 Functional Testing Types Explained With Detail

Reinventing Performance Testing: Agile

Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Observability platform vs. observability tools

Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript

Java Or Scala Performance – Which One Is Better?

Accelerate Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker

Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Apica as an Alternative to Micro Focus SiteScope

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Why open source software and open standards are crucial to the future of software development

Dynatrace OTel Collector distribution amplifies OpenTelemetry integration for scalable, production-ready observability

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