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Four observability trends IT leaders should have on the radar in 2023

Dynatrace

Just as the world began to emerge from the immediate effects of an unprecedented global healthcare crisis, it faced yet another emergency. Soaring energy costs and rising inflation have created strong macroeconomic headwinds that force organizations to prioritize efficiency and cost reduction. However, organizational efficiency can’t come at the expense of innovation and growth.

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What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

High Scalability

DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of answer delivered with a radiant smile calculated to offend no one yet still sounds comprehensive and deep.

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Powering PostgreSQL 15 With Columnar Tables

Percona

Prologue. This blog is the result of my investigation into column-wise tables. Hopefully, you will find it useful in your deliberations. When I started writing it was meant to be a “Good News” blurb. I was pretty optimistic that I’d truly have impressive numbers to share but as it turns out, while there is a potential for significant advantage, a detailed testing regime of the CITUS columnar store extension should be carried out before implementing them into your own environment.

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Prioritizing tasks using the Eisenhower matrix

Addy Osmani

The Eisenhower matrix is a popular time management tool that can help you prioritize your tasks and make the most of your time.

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Dynatrace named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022 report

Dynatrace

Leading independent research and advisory firm Forrester has named Dynatrace a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022 report. For Dynatrace, this recognition demonstrates the clear leadership and innovation of Dynatrace in AIOps (or AI for IT operations). In the report, Forrester evaluated 11 providers, scoring them with categories that include Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence.

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Configuring unixODBC and SQL Server Drivers for HammerDB on Linux

HammerDB

In this post, we will do a walk through example of installing and configuring unixODBC and the SQL Server on Linux drivers as well as the HammerDB connection options to enable HammerDB on Linux to be able to connect to SQL Server. In the example, we have SQL Server running on Windows and are using a virtualized Linux instance to run HammerDB to connect to SQL Server. unixODBC.

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JSON and Relational Databases – Part One

Percona

JSON data and relational databases have traditionally been diametric opposites. One is very free form with minimal rules on the formatting and the other is very strict and formal. So many folks were surprised when relational databases started adding a JSON data type to their products. In this multi-part blog series, we will start with an overview of using JSON in a relational database.

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What is ITOps? Why IT operations is more crucial than ever in a multicloud world

Dynatrace

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems.

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How to deploy HammerDB CLI fast with Docker

HammerDB

The TPC publishes an official Docker image on Docker Hub to enable the rapid deployment and testing of databases with HammerDB. This image includes example scripts to build schemas and test your databases with a single command. In this post, we will show an example of using Docker to deploy the HammerDB command line and test a database with minimal effort.

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Least Privilege for Kubernetes Resources and Percona Operators

Percona

Operators hide the complexity of the application and Kubernetes. Instead of dealing with Pods, StatefulSets, tons of YAML manifests, and various configuration files, the user talks to Kubernetes API to provision a ready-to-use application. An Operator automatically provisions all the required resources and exposes the application. Though, there is always a risk that the user would want to do something manual that can negatively affect the application and the Operator logic.

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Preparing Your Performance Testing for 2023: 5 Challenges and Solutions

Abstracta

The technological and digital transformation boom of 2022 encouraged enterprises and startups to accelerate their development velocity. Consumers demanded more applications within shorter timeframes and of higher quality. What are the performance testing challenges for 2023? Find out everything in this BlazeRunner article. By Sesha. The post Preparing Your Performance Testing for 2023: 5 Challenges and Solutions appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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The value of open platforms: How an open software intelligence platform accelerates innovation

Dynatrace

What is an open platform, and why do organizations need them? Today, organizations face unprecedented challenges, including COVID-19 recovery, economic uncertainty, and technological disruption. An open platform can address some of the challenges organizations have experienced as they move to the cloud to become more resilient and agile in the face of disruption.

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Is Observability Worth It? A Detailed Cost-benefit Analysis

Simform

Observability has taken over all the conversations in the site reliability engineering landscape. But do you know exactly how much money it can save for your business? Or is it that the observability's cost outweights the savings because of benefits? Find out all this and more in our detailed cost-benefit analysis of observability.

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Mega List of Updates, Bug Fixes, New Features! Release Roundup December 12, 2022

Percona

It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

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Testing Kubernetes with KUTTL

Percona Community

Automated testing is the only way to be sure that your code works. Enabling automated testing can be hard and we say a lot of tools to write automated tests in the industry since the beginning. Some veterans in the industry may remember Selenium, Cucumber frameworks that help automate testing in the browser. However, testing in Kubernetes can be hard.

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OneAgent release notes version 1.255

Dynatrace

We released Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate version 1.255. To learn what’s new, have a look at: OneAgent release notes. ActiveGate release notes. The post OneAgent release notes version 1.255 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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AWS re:Invent 2022: The Key Announcements and Takeaways

Simform

Re:Invent is arguably the biggest event in the cloud computing calendar, where AWS releases some major announcements and updates. This blog aims to break down and dig deeper into the most impactful news from AWS re:Invent 2022 and what it could mean for your business.

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Using Percona Toolkit to Alter Database Tables Online: A Controlled Approach

Percona

Table modifications are a common task for database administrators. In this blog, I’ll explain how to alter tables online in a controlled manner that does not disrupt application users or cause application downtime. One of the tools in Percona Toolkit is pt-online-schema-change , a utility that alters the structure of a table without interfering with the reads or writes.

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Top 4 Technical Challenges for Fantasy Sports Apps

VoltDB

The post Top 4 Technical Challenges for Fantasy Sports Apps appeared first on Volt Active Data.

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Three smart log ingestion strategies in Dynatrace (without OneAgent)

Dynatrace

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. The key to getting answers from log monitoring at scale begins with relevant log ingestion at scale. While engaging the automatic instrumentation of the Dynatrace OneAgent makes log ingestion automatic and scalable , our customers have set up multiple other log ingestion methods.

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10 Observability Success Stories: Organizations that Nailed Observability

Simform

Observability is an evolution of APM and NPM solutions aiming to monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application-level issues proactively. This article deep dives into ten companies that have successfully adopted Observability.

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How To Generate Data With Pagila in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

Percona Community

Have you ever faced the need to generate test data for your Postgres database? I am sure you have! This blog post will guide you step-by-step through one of the many ways to get it fast and easy. That will leave you plenty of time to focus on queries. No need to spend time creating your data generation scripts! For this guide, we will use Pagila, a tool that provides a standard schema that we can use for examples in books, tutorials, articles, samples, etc.

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Why Are User Journeys So Difficult to Test?

Apica

Part Two of the Humanizing Software Quality Series from Intellyx, for Apica. In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If you were on a desert island and forced to bring only one service level objective of a successful application, you would absolutely want to keep tracking user journeys, leaving the rest of the metrics behind.

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Leading Financial Services Provider Decreases Spend While Increasing Customer Satisfaction Using Flow Metrics 

Tasktop

Digital financial startups are taking the market by storm, and many big banks are struggling to keep up. In a world where agility and rapid feature delivery are crucial, sprawling, siloed organizations laden with top-down processes are at a disadvantage. One of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations, faced with a rising tide of defect work and a clamour of customer complaints, decided it was time to act.

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