December, 2024

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Dynatrace KSPM: Transforming Kubernetes security and compliance

Dynatrace

We are excited to announce that Dynatrace has introduced new capabilities for Kubernetes security posture management. This solution provides continuous assessment of adherence to technical standards, visibility, prioritization, and remediation for misconfigurations and compliance findings across Kubernetes environments. Why manual audits and custom scripts fall short for Kubernetes security posture management In the dynamic and complex world of Kubernetes, relying on manual audits, custom script

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Seamless RDS to DynamoDB Migration: Unlocking Scalability With the Dual Write Strategy

DZone

Migrating from Amazon RDS to DynamoDB can be a significant challenge, especially when transitioning from a relational database like RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) to DynamoDB, a NoSQL, key-value store. One of the most effective strategies for migrating data incrementally is the Dual Write approach. This allows you to keep both databases in sync during the transition, minimizing downtime and reducing the risk of data inconsistency.

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Introducing Configurable Metaflow

The Netflix TechBlog

David J. Berg * , David Casler ^, Romain Cledat * , Qian Huang * , Rui Lin * , Nissan Pow * , Nurcan Sonmez * , Shashank Srikanth * , Chaoying Wang * , Regina Wang * , Darin Yu * *: Model Development Team, Machine Learning Platform ^: Content Demand ModelingTeam A month ago at QConSF, we showcased how Netflix utilizes Metaflow to power a diverse set of ML and AI use cases , managing thousands of unique Metaflow flows.

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MySQL Transaction ERROR 1412 and Isolation Levels

Percona

This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific Isolation level settings. Background As per the MySQL documentation, this error should occur for “operations that make a temporary copy of the original table and delete the original table when the temporary copy is built.

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Licensing Code on CSS Wizardry

CSS Wizardry

Since founding csswizardry.com in 2007, I’ve shared hundreds of articles , tips, tricks, techniques, snippets, and more— all for free. These have ranged from simple one-liners to concepts that have shaped the way thousands of developers approach their work. This freemium model has been the cornerstone of my consultancy business for the last 11 years, and as someone who learned to code from freely available resources, I’m deeply committed to keeping this knowledge accessible to everyone.

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Generative Logic

O'Reilly

Alibabas latest model, QwQ-32B-Preview , has gained some impressive reviews for its reasoning abilities. Like OpenAIs GPT-4 o1, 1 its training has emphasized reasoning rather than just reproducing language. That seemed like something worth testing outor at least playing around withso when I heard that it very quickly became available in Ollama and wasnt too large to run on a moderately well-equipped laptop, I downloaded QwQ and tried it out.

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New integrations announced at AWS re:Invent enhance cloud performance, security, and automation

Dynatrace

The rapid evolution of cloud technology continues to shape how businesses operate and compete. This year’s AWS re:Invent will showcase a suite of new AWS and Dynatrace integrations designed to enhance cloud performance, security, and automation. These innovations promise to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and offer deeper insights for enterprises using AWS services.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Part 1: Understanding The Challenges By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques Introduction At Netflix, we manage over a thousand global content launches each month, backed by billions of dollars in annual investment. Ensuring the success and discoverability of each title across our platform is a top priority, as we aim to connect every story with the right audience to delight our members.

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MySQL with Diagrams Part One: Replication Architecture

Percona

In this series, MySQL with Diagrams, Ill use diagrams to explain internals, architectures, and structures as detailed as possible. In basic terms, here’s how replication works: the transactions are written into a binary log on the source side, carried into the replica, and applied.

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My code::dive talk video is available: New Q&A

Sutter's Mill

Two weeks ago, Bjarne and I and lots of ISO committee members had a blast at the code::dive C++ conference held on November 25, just two days after the end of the Wrocaw ISO C++ meeting. Thanks again to Nokia for hosting the ISO meeting, and for inviting us all to speak at their conference! My talk was an updated-and-shortened version of my CppCon keynote (which I also gave at Meeting C++; I’ll post a link to that video too once it’s posted): If you already saw the CppCon talk, you c

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Unveiling Graph Structures in Microservices: Service Dependency Graph, Call Graph, and Causal Graph

Abhishek Tiwari

The rise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices architecture has led to a major shift in software development, enabling the creation of complex, distributed systems composed of independent, loosely coupled services. These architectures offer numerous benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and resilience. However, the distributed nature of these systems introduces new challenges related to understanding, managing, and analysing their behaviour.

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The keys to selecting a platform for end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

DevOps and security teams managing today’s multicloud architectures and cloud-native applications are facing an avalanche of data. On average, organizations use 10 different tools to monitor applications, infrastructure, and user experiences across these environments. Such fragmented approaches fall short of giving teams the insights they need to run IT and site reliability engineering operations effectively.

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AWS Performance Tuning: Why EC2 Autoscaling Isn’t a Silver Bullet

DZone

AWS EC2 Autoscaling is frequently regarded as the ideal solution for managing fluctuating workloads. It offers automatic adjustments of computing resources in response to demand, theoretically removing the necessity for manual involvement. Nevertheless, depending exclusively on EC2 Autoscaling can result in inefficiencies, overspending, and performance issues.

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These 7 Edge Data Challenges Will Test Companies the Most in 2025

VoltDB

Edge computing has transformed how businesses and industries process and manage data. By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. However, as organizations accelerate their adoption of edge technologies, things are getting more difficult in the form of security, bottlenecks, and more. 2025 portends to be the year these difficulties come to a head.

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Percona Wins 2024 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx

Percona

As organizations turn to the cloud for more and more products and services, many are discovering that the majority of these offerings come with hidden, yet significant, costs.

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Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond

All Things Distributed

We've entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. These are the areas where I see technology shaping society in 2025 and beyond—and it all starts with mission-driven work.

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Microservice Architecture of Alibaba

Abhishek Tiwari

Alibaba has constructed a sophisticated microservices architecture to address the challenges of serving its vast user base and handling complex business operations. This article delves into the nuances of Alibaba’s microservices architecture, presenting critical insights into its design, scalability, performance optimisation, and resource management strategies.

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HTTP monitors on the latest Dynatrace platform extend insights into the health of your API endpoints and simplify test management

Dynatrace

The improved UI of the new Synthetic app makes managing your synthetic tests and analyzing their results easier and more effective. Exploratory analytics now cover more bespoke scenarios, allowing you to access any element of test results stored in the Dynatrace Grail data lakehouse. This allows you to build customized visualizations with Dashboards or perform in-depth analysis with Notebooks.

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Charge Vertical Scaling With the Latest Java GCs

DZone

In the dynamic landscape of Java ecosystem enhancements, one could miss an important progress that has been made in Java Garbage Collection (GC) in recent years. Meanwhile, the latest generations of GC bring far-reaching consequences for running Java applications. This article intends to highlight the significant effects brought to us by ZGC and Shenandoah.

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Our 10 most popular web performance articles of 2024

Speed Curve

We love writing articles and blog posts that help folks solve real web performance and UX problems. Here are the ones you loved most in 2024. (The number one item may surprise you!) Some of these articles come from our recently published Web Performance Guide – a collection of evergreen how-to resources (written by actual humans!) that will help you master website monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics.

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How to Get Useful Information Out of Valkey/Redis Keys

Percona

In this blog post we will talk about how to get useful information out of the Valkey OR Redis keys. This would be helpful in many scenarios, like troubleshooting a specific key thing and verifying the resources, especially the Memory the data set is holding.

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Percona Monitoring and Management 3.0.0-Beta - Tech Preview

Percona Community

Percona Monitoring and Management 3.0.0 Beta - Tech Preview We’re excited to announce the Tech Preview (Beta) release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0-Beta. This release is intended for testing environments only, as it’s not yet production-ready. The GA (General Availability) release will be available through standard channels in the upcoming months.

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The Hidden Cost of Success: Understanding Non-Fatal Errors in Microservices

Abhishek Tiwari

A recent research from Washington University in St. Louis and Uber Technologies reveals a critical but often overlooked phenomenon in microservices architectures: non-fatal errors. While these errors don’t cause system failures, they introduce significant performance overhead that can impact user experience and operational costs. Study by Lee et. al explores how prevalent are non-fatal errors and what impact do they have on the exposed latency of top-level requests?

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Predictable costs for Log Management & Analytics with new simplified licensing plan

Dynatrace

As cloud complexity increases and security concerns mount, organizations need log analytics to discover and investigate issues and gain critical business intelligence. But exploring the breadth of log analytics scenarios with most log vendors often results in unexpectedly high monthly log bills and aggressive year-over-year costs. To give organizations the freedom to explore log analytics without barriers due to cost concerns, Dynatrace is proud to announce a new Dynatrace Platform Subscription

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Monitor Spring Boot Web Application Performance Using Micrometer and InfluxDB

DZone

As a Java developer, there's nothing more frustrating than dealing with sluggish application performance in production. Diagnosing issues within complex microservice architectures can quickly become a time-consuming and daunting task. Fortunately, the Spring Boot framework offers a powerful observability stack that streamlines real-time monitoring and performance analysis.

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SaaS Testing: Challenges, Tools and Testing Approach

Software Testing Help

Here is a detailed overview of SaaS Testing: To begin implementing any form of testing methods, whether it is traditional or new methods, we need to know every detail of. Read more The post SaaS Testing: Challenges, Tools and Testing Approach appeared first on Software Testing Help.

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Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0: The Most Performant Ever

Percona

MongoDB Community Edition 8.0 has been available since October. At Percona, we took the time to examine this release carefully, check performance, and guarantee it works perfectly, stand-alone, and with other tools like Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona Monitoring and Management.

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ICYMI: Some of our most exciting product updates of 2024!

Speed Curve

Every year feels like a big year here at SpeedCurve, and 2024 was no exception. Here's a recap of product highlights designed to make your performance monitoring even better and easier! Our biggest achievements this year have centred on making it easier for you to: Gather more meaningful real user monitoring (RUM) data Get actionable insights from Core Web Vitals Simplify your synthetic testing Get expert performance coaching when and how you need it Keep reading to learn more.

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Pitch your computer science research

Abhishek Tiwari

The Art of Standing Out Are you a computer science researcher? Your research work deserves more than just publication it needs to reach to the right audience. If you have recently published an interesting computer science research paper, share with us here. We will publish a review here on this website and potentially invite you to our upcoming Infinite Monkey podcast.

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Dynatrace wins InfoWorld’s 2024 Technology of the Year Award for DevOps: Observability

Dynatrace

We’re excited to share that Dynatrace has been recognized in the DevOps: Observability category of InfoWorlds 2024 Technology of the Year awards! This honor reflects our dedication to helping organizations tackle complexity and achieve greater clarity in managing their digital environments. Why this award matters The InfoWorld Technology of the Year awards celebrate standout solutions in AI, APIs, applications, business intelligence, cloud, data management, DevOps, and software development

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How OpenAI’s Downtime Incident Teaches Us to Build More Resilient Systems

DZone

On December 11, 2024, OpenAI services experienced significant downtime due to an issue stemming from a new telemetry service deployment. This incident impacted API, ChatGPT, and Sora services, resulting in service disruptions that lasted for several hours. As a company that aims to provide accurate and efficient AI solutions, OpenAI has shared a detailed post-mortem report to transparently discuss what went wrong and how they plan to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

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How to Perform Software Product Testing – Detailed Process and Methods with Examples

Software Testing Help

In this article, we give a detailed account of the software product testing process with the help of examples Software Products need their own unique approach to test adequately and. Read more The post How to Perform Software Product Testing – Detailed Process and Methods with Examples appeared first on Software Testing Help.

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Performing ELT Operations Using DOMAINs

Percona

First things first, a couple of definitions to clear up: ETL: Extract, Transform, Load. Transforms data before loading it into the target system extract raw data from various sources use a secondary processing server to transform that data load that data into a target database ELT: Extra, Load, Transform.

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Performance Hero: Pat Meenan

Speed Curve

This month, we celebrate everything that OG performance hero Pat Meenan has done – and continues to do – for the web performance community. When we started the Performance Hero series earlier this year, we had an idea of the types of folks in our community we wanted to acknowledge: People who are making a difference in web performance People who are humble People who give without expectation People who don't necessarily crave the spotlight When looking at these attributes – for

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Power Laws and Heavy-Tail Distributions in Hyperscale Microservices Architectures

Abhishek Tiwari

Recent analyses of Meta and Alibaba’s production microservices architectures reveal distinct patterns of heavy-tail and power law distributions. These patterns manifest in service scale, request patterns, and resource utilisation, offering insights into the inherent characteristics of large-scale distributed systems.

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When things go sideways: Troubleshooting the OpenTelemetry Operator

Dynatrace

This blog post was co-written with Reese Lee. If you already have an application running in Kubernetes and are exploring using OpenTelemetry to gain insights into the health and performance of your app and cluster, you might be interested in an implementation of the Kubernetes Operator called the OpenTelemetry Operator. As youll learn shortly, due to its range of capabilities, the Operator is your go-to for (almost) hassle-free OpenTelemetry management.

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Load Testing Essentials for High-Traffic Applications

DZone

Todays applications must simultaneously serve millions of users, so high performance is a hard requirement for this heavy load. When you consider marketing campaigns, seasonal spikes, or social media virality episodes, this demand can overshoot projections and bring systems to a grinding halt. To that end, monitoring performance and load testing has become an integral part of app development and deployment: it mimics real application performance under stress, and with this kind of testing, teams

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