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Sustainability: Thoughts from a software engineer

Dynatrace

Scale to zero Scaling systems to match current demand prevents underutilized machines from consuming significant energy while idling. While building production systems that can scale to zero and reliably restart can be challenging, it’s often simpler in test stages and build pipelines, making this a great place to start.

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The Next Major Shift in Enterprise Software Engineering: From Platforms to “Platformless”

DZone

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless.

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5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

You can verify any system settings that might impact your tests and see them in action. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science.

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Best PostgreSQL GUI [2024]

Scalegrid

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram.

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Edge Authentication and Token-Agnostic Identity Propagation

The Netflix TechBlog

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

Dynatrace

Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline. A key component of a proactive SRE model involves the implementation of end-to-end monitoring, including on systems that are not directly owned by the SRE team’s organization.