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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Top 7 Affiliate Programs for Testers and Developers

DZone

These tech geeks with their supreme knowledge can add more value to their company, and also themselves, through affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are an arrangement through which an online merchant sends traffic to a website and is paid accordingly. Affiliate programs are also called associate programs.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Large scale deployments are easy and cost-effective with network zones (Early Adopter)

Dynatrace

Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. By minimizing bandwidth and preventing unrelated traffic between data centers, you can maintain healthy network infrastructure and save on costs. optimizing traffic routing. How to get started.

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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. Comprehensive training programs and strict change management protocols can help reduce human errors.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. History of Lisp ( Hacker News).

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