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Catching up with OpenTelemetry in 2025

Dynatrace

To understand whats happening in todays complex software ecosystems, you need comprehensive telemetry data to make it all observable. In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. With so many types of technologies in software stacks around the globe, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the de facto standard for gathering telemetry data.

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How to Scale Elasticsearch to Solve Your Scalability Issues

DZone

With the evolution of modern applications serving increasing needs for real-time data processing and retrieval, scalability does, too. One such open-source, distributed search and analytics engine is Elasticsearch, which is very efficient at handling data in large sets and high-velocity queries. However, the process for effectively scaling Elasticsearch can be nuanced, since one needs a proper understanding of the architecture behind it and of performance tradeoffs.

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Best Practices for Scaling RabbitMQ

Scalegrid

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task.

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Ascending Levels of Nerd

O'Reilly

In developing the content for our May 8 virtual conference Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It , we couldnt help but want to feature Harper Reed, whose recent post My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM so perfectly encapsulates the kind of experimentation that developers are going through as they come to grips with the transformation that AI is bringing to how they work, what they can accomplish, and which tools they should be adopting.

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The Anatomy of Broken Apache Struts 2: A Technical Deep Dive into CVE-2024-53677

Dynatrace

Apache Struts 2 has a history of critical vulnerabilities. Broken Apache Struts 2: Technical Deep Dive into CVE-2024-53677The vulnerability allows attackers to manipulate file upload parameters, possibly leading to remote code execution. Figure 1. A high-level overview of how an attacker can exploit a CVE-2024-53677 vulnerable Struts application to upload a web shell into a web-accessible directory and then remotely execute commands on the web server via the web shell.

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Efficient Multimodal Data Processing: A Technical Deep Dive

DZone

Multimodal data processing is the evolving need of the latest data platforms powering applications like recommendation systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical diagnostics. Handling multimodal data spanning text, images, videos, and sensor inputs requires resilient architecture to manage the diversity of formats and scale. In this article, I will walk through a comprehensive end-to-end architecture for efficient multimodal data processing while striking a balance in scalability, latency, and ac

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Top PostgreSQL 17 New Features

Scalegrid

PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility.

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Hidden indicators: Tracing the emergence of Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677

Dynatrace

With the increasing frequency of cyber threats, identifying vulnerabilities early is essential. Recently, a critical vulnerability was discovered in Apache Struts, a widely used Java-based web application framework. This vulnerability, published as CVE-2024-53677 on December 11, 2024, affects the file upload mechanism, allowing for path traversal and potential remote code execution.

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Grafana Loki Fundamentals and Architecture

DZone

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system. It is designed for simplicity and cost-efficiency. Created by Grafana Labs in 2018, Loki has rapidly emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional logging systems, particularly for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments. Loki can provide a comprehensive log journey.

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Using VS Code and Docker to Debug MySQL Crashes

Percona

Typically, we receive customer tickets regarding crashes or bugs, where we request a core dump to analyze and identify the root cause or understand the unexpected behavior. To read the core dumps, we also request the linked libraries used by the server’s MySQL.

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American manufacturers have forgotten Deming's principles. Their software teams never learned them.

The Agile Manager

American manufacturing struggled with quality problems in the 1970s and 1980s. Manufacturers got their house in order with the help of W. Edwards Deming, applying statistical quality control and total quality management throughout the manufacturing process, from raw materials, to work in process, to finished goods. The quality of American made products improved significantly as a result.

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Dynatrace Hub: Extend the power of Dynatrace

Dynatrace

A simple and automated approach can help you stay on top of things and ensure your systems are available and secure. With over 700 ready-made apps and integrations on the Hub, Dynatrace seamlessly automates full stack monitoring, ensuring comprehensive coverage regardless of the technologies you’re utilizing. Your one-stop shop for discovering, learning, and activating monitoring Dynatrace Hubacts as the central entry point to the Dynatrace platform, simplifying the onboarding process for

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Spark Job Optimization

DZone

We are living in an age where data is of utmost importance, be it analysis or reporting, training data for LLM models, etc. The amount of data we capture in any field is increasing exponentially, which requires a technology that can process large amounts of data in a short duration. One such technology would be Apache Spark. Apache Spark is a cluster-based architecture that can be accessed in different flavors like Python, Scala, Java, and Spark SQL, which would make it versatile and easy to fit

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NEW! Synthetic test agent updates: Chrome, Firefox and Lighthouse

Speed Curve

This month, we've made some updates to our synthetic testing agents. In addition to upgrading the underlying operating system, we've added support for: Lighthouse 12.3.0 (previously 10.4.0) Chrome 133 (previously 126) Firefox 135 (previously 128) What has changed? We understand the sensitivity related to changes in your performance data. Synthetic updates are known to cause baseline changes due to hardware changes, browser optimization or in the case of Lighthouse, changes to the methodology.

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Understanding trx-consistency-only on MyDumper Before Removal

Percona

I have been working on MyDumper forover three years now, and I usually dont use thetax-consistency-only feature during backups because it wasnt an optionI quite understood.

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Business process observability: An IT solution to a business challenge

Dynatrace

Business processes support virtually all aspects of an organizations operations. Theyre often categorized by their function; core processes directly create customer value, support processes increase departmental efficiency, and management processes drive strategic goals and compliance. Sometimes overlooked is a fourth category we might call long-tail processes; these are the ad hoc or custom workflows that develop in response to gaps between systems, applications, departments, or workflows.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Write a System Design Document

DZone

Have you ever wondered how large-scale systems handle millions of requests seamlessly while ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability? Behind every high-performing application whether its a search engine, an e-commerce platform, or a real-time messaging service lies a well-thought-out system design. Without it, applications would struggle with bottlenecks, downtimes, and an overall poor user experience.

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Rust vs Python: Differences and Ideal Use Cases

DZone

Rust and Python are widely used programming languages in software development and data science. Rusts adoption has grown significantly in recent years, leaving many wondering if it will eventually replace Python as a top programming language. Compared to Python, Rust is a newbie but is making its mark among developers. According to the StackOverflow Developer Survey, Python is preferred over Rust, but in some cases, Rust is better.

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Mastering Redirects With Cloudflare Bulk Redirects

DZone

Problem Statement Controlling numerous URL redirects in IIS Manager operating on Windows Server systems proves difficult because it requires extended work time. When redirect rules within the IIS interface and web.config file require manual configuration, their management becomes more complicated due to the growing number of redirects. Website migrations and site restructurings lead to this particular challenge since teams need to maintain multiple redirects numbering in the dozens and potential

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Top Methods to Improve ETL Performance Using SSIS

DZone

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is the backbone of many data warehouses. In the data warehouse world, data is managed through the ETL process, which consists of three steps: extract pulling or acquiring data from sources, transform converting data into the required format, and load pushing data to the destination, typically a data warehouse or data mart.

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What’s new in Dynatrace SaaS version 1.309

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.309. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post What’s new in Dynatrace SaaS version 1.309 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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